Campbell, H. (2009). Reconstruction and reparations: Lessons from China and the Pan-African world. Development in Practice, 19(3), 332-343.

This article challenges the modern scientific method to reparation and its construction of “binary concepts of what informs the intellectual culture of neoliberalism” (145). For Campbell, Reparations is taking action against those who do not see or take accountability for the harm they caused. As such, Campbell does not see monetary reparations as a guarantee of non-repetition.

Coates, T.-N. (2014, June). The case for reparations. The Atlantic.

Discusses structural racism in the US with a focus on the history of slavery as a foundation of American capital & racial gap in intergenerational wealth. Coates (2014) calls for national acknowledgment and fundamental understanding of how slavery, Jim Crow and structural racism are at the root the existing racial inequalities, as opposed to a “handout.”