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- Title
Dismantling the Master's House: Reparations on the American Plantation.
- Authors
BREWINGTON, JORDAN
- Abstract
In southeastern Louisiana, many plantations still stand along River Road, a stretch of the route lining the Mississippi River that connects the former slave ports and presentday cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Black communities along River Road have long experienced these plantations as sites of racialized harm. This Note constructs a normative framework for local reparations that centers these descendant communities and explores the use of eminent domain to break up the landholdings of current plantation owners to make those lands available to descendants. Beyond the descendants in Louisiana's river parishes, this Note is aimed at inspiring a discussion about reparations in other local contexts--across institutions, cities, and states--that are also sites of historical and continued subjugation.
- Subjects
MISSISSIPPI River; REPARATIONS for historical injustices; COMPENSATORY damages; AFRICAN Americans; LAND use laws
- Publication
Yale Law Journal, 2021, Vol 130, Issue 8, p2160
- ISSN
0044-0094
- Publication type
Article