{"product_id":"atonement-and-forgiveness-a-new-model-for-black-reparations-9780520239418","title":"Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important  controversial  and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. Atonement and Forgiveness shifts the focus of the issue from the backward-looking question of compensation for victims to a more forward-looking racial reconciliation. Offering a comprehensive discussion of the history of the black redress movement  this book puts forward a powerful new plan for repairing the damaged relationship between the federal government and black Americans in the aftermath of 240 years of slavery and another 100 years of government-sanctioned racial segregation.  Key to Brookss vision is the governments clear signal that it understands the magnitude of the atrocity it committed against an innocent people  that it takes full responsibility  and that it publicly requests forgivenessin other words  that it apologizes. The government must make that apology believable  Brooks explains  by a tangible act that turns the rhetoric of apology into a meaningful  material reality  that is  by reparation. Apology and reparation together constitute atonement. Atonement  in turn  imposes a reciprocal civic obligation on black Americans to forgive  which allows black Americans to start relinquishing racial resentment and to begin trusting the governments commitment to racial equality.  Brookss bold proposal situates the argument for reparations within a larger  international frameworknamely  a post-Holocaust vision of government responsibility for genocide  slavery  apartheid  and similar acts of injustice. Atonement and Forgiveness makes a passionate  convincing case that only with this spirit of heightened morality  identity  egalitarianism  and restorative justice can genuine racial reconciliation take place in America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45273341886517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520239415","price":96.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520239418.jpg?v=1780488272","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/atonement-and-forgiveness-a-new-model-for-black-reparations-9780520239418","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}