The global interest in research on the political economy of reparations has been rekindled by recent developments in the United States of America, but much of this renewed investigation is misinformed, distorted, or limited to recycling what is already known. Recent work by Darity and Mullen is an exception. They have contributed eloquently to age-old debates on reparations for emancipated enslaved Africans. This essay examines their work in the context of historical movements against economic apartheid in the United States, its origins, and how it can be overcome. The focus of this essay is on how reparations should be considered as a response to the entire history of racism-cum-discrimination, which has consistently blocked economic opportunities for African Americans. Reparations , if adhered to, will either directly or indirectly modify the economic injustices that continue to face African Americans in their adopted nation (America). Central to any new case for reparations is the power of land, which offers to breathe new life into the broken, old promise of “forty acres and a mule” as a means of addressing long-term social stratification in modern America.

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土地和赔偿的政治经济学：21 世纪非裔美国人的赔偿案例

美利坚合众国最近的事态发展重新点燃了全球对赔偿政治经济学研究的兴趣，但这种重新调查的大部分内容是误导、歪曲或仅限于回收已知的内容。Darity 和 Mullen 最近的作品是个例外。他们为被解放的被奴役的非洲人提供赔偿的古老辩论做出了雄辩的贡献。这篇文章在美国反对经济种族隔离的历史运动的背景下考察了他们的工作、它的起源以及如何克服它。本文的重点是关于赔偿应如何视为对响应整个racism-史暨-歧视，这一直在阻碍非裔美国人的经济机会。如果遵守赔偿，将直接或间接改变非裔美国人在其被收养的国家（美国）继续面临的经济不公正。任何新的赔偿案例的核心都是土地的力量，它可以为“四十英亩和一头骡子”的破旧承诺注入新的活力，作为解决现代美国长期社会分层的一种手段。