Abstract
Work for reparations requires interventions by world historians to bear witness to the brutalities of the past as part of a process that seeks truth and reconciliation, along with some measure of accountability and restitution. Shifting our lens to encompass world history exposes the varied effects of slavery and the slave trade, and it allows us to interrogate national boundaries and hegemonic histories. It also makes visible the myriad forms of resistance to the capitalist world-system, nurturing the radical imagination of alternatives. We discuss work in the United Nations and other global political spaces to advance demands for reparations and introduce contributions to this symposium.
Highlights
World History and the Work of ReparationsThe murder of George Floyd and the subsequent upsurge of worldwide resistance to racialized police violence and structural racism have generated extraordinary attention in mainstream U.S and global discourse to the plight of people of African descent
To be Black in the present world is to bear the weight of the irreparable loss and lingering physical and emotional scars caused by the abduction and enslavement of more than 15 million African people and their descendants
This journal is published by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press
Summary
World History and the Work of ReparationsThe murder of George Floyd and the subsequent upsurge of worldwide resistance to racialized police violence and structural racism have generated extraordinary attention in mainstream U.S and global discourse to the plight of people of African descent.
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