Reviewing the long history of demands for reparations and looking closely at the current movements, Joan Scott will argue that although material compensation is certainly part of the effort, the demand for reparations is best understood as a critique of the conventional writing of American history. It is an example of a critical politics that takes its aim at the way history represents the past.
Come here the stories of the descendants of Monticello's enslaved families as they reflect upon and remember their ancestors almost two centuries later.