Reparations and New World Slavery
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Discussing New World slavery as irreparable evil with David Scott, Ruth and William Lubic Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York. We consider the destruction of forms of life through slavery, genocide, and colonialism and consider why there is a renewed demand for reparations now. How is responsibility for the past being renegotiated after the end of revolutionary postcolonial horizons?
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