This paper contributes to emerging conversations at the intersection of critical geographies of property and race by centering political grammars of reckoning and redress. Grammar is more than syntax. It is about structures of language, including the ways that words are arranged, inflected, and imbued with meaning. A focus on political grammars elucidates the rules of reference that make private property appear as a self-evident thing (e.g., the land itself) that one can own. Moreover, it orients discussions of land and property toward the kinds of reparative work necessary to dismantle and move beyond racial regimes of ownership. The paper focuses on North America, specifically the United States, while drawing on salient theoretical insights from a range of scholars and cases. It is oriented around an examination of three modes of reckoning—truth and reconciliation; state redress; and reparations as the reconstruction of society—that overlap but also have distinct meanings with different assumptions about accountability and responsibility and visions for the future. I analyze the political grammars that subtend each and consider how they call us as scholars and people to the urgent task of building more just social worlds.

本文通过将清算和补救的政治语法作为中心，为在财产和种族的重要地理交叉处的新兴对话做出了贡献。语法不仅仅是语法。它涉及语言的结构，包括单词的排列，变形和充满含义的方式。对政治语法的关注阐明了使私人财产表现为一个人可以拥有的不言而喻的事物（例如土地本身）的参照规则。此外，它使对土地和财产的讨论面向拆除和超越种族所有权制度所必需的各种修复工作。本文着眼于北美，尤其是美国，同时借鉴了众多学者和案例的重要理论见解。它的重点是考察三种计算方式：真相与和解；和解。国家赔偿；以及作为社会重建的赔偿–重叠但又具有不同的含义，对问责制，责任和对未来的愿景有不同的假设。我分析了每种政治语法所代表的内容，并考虑了它们如何称呼我们为学者和人民，以应对建立更公正的社会世界这一紧迫任务。