http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/world/americas/caribbean-nations-to-seek-reparations-putting-price-on-damage-of-slavery.html?pagewanted=2&ref=us

We will be discussing reparations in my Memory Politics course next week, drawing on several authors including Hayner, Barkan, DeGrieff and Rubio-Marín.  The salience of these issues makes for lively debates and meaningful engagement with the ethical dilemmas of historical grievances and repertoires of justice.