Too many Americans (laypersons and scholars) have historical amnesia when it comes to racial oppression. Angelo Corlett?s new text, Heirs of Oppression, does not suffer this shortcoming. Corlett skillfully draws on some of the best thinking by historians, legal scholars, social scientists, and philosophers to construct a novel theory of reparations in response to a history of racial injustice. The book will stand as the canonical defense of a rights-based account of reparations. Heirs of Oppression is a rich and rewarding book. Anyone working on race, social justice, and political philosophy in general will benefit from it. This book is a must read for anyone who is genuinely interested in issues of moral repair...

Howard McGary, Rutgers University

This book presents a thorough examination of the idea of reparation and a powerful defense of the case for reparation for Blacks and American Indians. It is also a ringing demonstration that utilitarian, forward looking accounts of corrective justice are indefensible and enfeeble the meaning of reparation.

Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Too many Americans (laypersons and scholars) have historical amnesia when it comes to racial oppression. Angelo Corlett's new text, Heirs of Oppression, does not suffer this shortcoming. Corlett skillfully draws on some of the best thinking by historians, legal scholars, social scientists, and philosophers to construct a novel theory of reparations in response to a history of racial injustice. The book will stand as the canonical defense of a rights-based account of reparations. Heirs of Oppression is a rich and rewarding book. Anyone working on race, social justice, and political philosophy in general will benefit from it. This book is a must read for anyone who is genuinely interested in issues of moral repair.

Howard McGary, Rutgers University