White Americans show little support for slavery reparations
Evidence
Yet, within the United States, the treatment received by its Native peoples remains a relatively nonsalient issue. Although the U.S. Congress in the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 apologized and made financial reparations to Japanese-Americans who survived their placement in internment camps during World War II, at the present time there is relatively little public debate in the United States concerning the viability of making such reparations to African-Americans for the slavery experience. Indeed, among White Americans, there is very little support for doing so (Barkan, 2000; Mallett & Swim, this volume, Chapter 4). — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 79
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: About 30 percent of white Americans support reparations as of 2023 — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1110; White Americans largely failed to endorse collective guilt as of 1972 — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 25; Poor white Southerners harmed by white supremacy should not receive black reparations — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 552 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- About 30 percent of white Americans support reparations as of 2023
#expands(0.95) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1110 - Whites support racial equality in principle but resist the policies implementing it
#expands(0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3332 - Whites supported racial equality only while it cost them nothing personally
#qualifies(0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3387 - White Americans largely failed to endorse collective guilt as of 1972
#corroborates(0.75) — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 25 - Poor white Southerners harmed by white supremacy should not receive black reparations
#qualifies(0.74) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 552