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Property Law CUNY Fall 2022
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations

The Atlantic (June 2014)

Rebecca Bratspies

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, THE ATLANTIC (June 2014). This influential article connects the dots between enslaving people, profiting from their labor, wealth in American, and structural racism.  We will return to these ideas throughout this semester.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations

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