Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Municipal-Level Proposals for Slavery Reparations
Abstract
In this paper, I aim to comprehensively document and analyze all municipal proposals
for Black reparations in the United States. I first analyzed the demographic make-up
of all cities with reparations proposals, which tended to be less Black, more educated,
and have relatively high costs associated with housing. Cities with developing but
incomplete proposals tended to have higher Black populations and lower indicators
of wealth, better capturing the intervention’s intended demographic. To supplement
this macro-level view, I used John Kingdon’s 1984 Multiple Streams Framework (MSF)
to conduct a document analysis of Asheville, North Carolina’s proposition of reparative
policy interventions. This cases study suggests that while indicators of the problems
and politics stream were present, the Asheville city council lacked sufficient reparations
policy options to implement a concrete policy at the time of the resolution’s passage.
Pre-existing non-governmental organizations and Black council members were key in
the introduction of a reparations resolution.
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Reneau, Olivia (2021). Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Municipal-Level Proposals for Slavery Reparations.
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