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Description: When Sorry Isn't Enough : The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice, Paperback by Brooks, Roy L. (EDT), ISBN 0814713327, ISBN-13 9780814713327, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Seemingly every week, a new question arises relative to the current worldwide ferment over human injustices. Why does the . offer $20,000 atonement money to Japanese Americans relocated to concentration camps during World War II, while not even apologizing to African Americans for 250 years of human bondage and another century of institutionalized discrimination? How can the . and Canada best grapple with the genocidal campaigns against Native Americans on which their countries were founded? How should Japan make amends to Korean "comfort women" sexually enslaved during World War II? Why does South Africa deem it necessary to grant amnesty to whites who tortured and murdered blacks under apartheid? Is Germany's highly praised redress program, which has paid billions of dollars to Jews worldwide, a success, and, as such, an example for others? More generally, is compensation for a historical wrong dangerous "blood money" that allows a nation to wash its hands forever of its responsibility to those it has injured? A rich collection of essays from leading scholars, pundits, activists, and political leaders the world over, many written expressly for this volume, When Sorry Isn't Enough also includes the voices of the victims of some of the world's worst atrocities, thereby providing a panoramic perspective on an international controversy often marked more by heat than reason.

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Book Title: When Sorry Isn't Enough : The Controversy over Apologies and Repa

Number of Pages: 536 Pages

Publication Name: When Sorry Isn't Enough : the Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice

Language: English

Publisher: New York University Press

Subject: Civil Rights, General

Publication Year: 1999

Item Height: 1.2 in

Item Weight: 34.4 Oz

Type: Textbook

Author: Roy L. Brooks

Subject Area: Law

Item Length: 10 in

Series: Critical America Ser.

Item Width: 7.3 in

Format: Trade Paperback