This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture
"This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture" is a monthly podcast produced by Dr. Hettie V. Williams Professor of History in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University. Williams is the author of several essays, articles, book chapters and the author/editor of seven books. Her research interests include African American intellectual and cultural history, women's history, and race/ethnic studies. She is also the former director of the Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at UMass Boston. Williams periodically interviews scholars, authors, activists, and community leaders on matters related to the history, society, and culture of Black and African American communities in the United States (U.S.) and the world. These podcast episodes are on a variety of subjects including, but not limited to, higher education, economics, criminal justice, reparations, mental health, history, science, gender, popular culture, women, and politics. A new episode will be released monthly on Monday mornings from September to May during each academic term.
This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture
Reparations as Restorative Justice Part 1
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In this episode, Guy Emerson Mount, Caine Jordan, and David Johnson discuss the idea of reparations and the Reparations Movement in the global African Diaspora with Hettie V. Williams. These scholars reframe the notion of justice “turning the idea on its head” and declare that monetary compensation for the injury of slavery, and racism more generally, can only be understood as a restorative on-going process or praxis. In other words, there is no amount of monetary compensation that can repair the harm that has been done to Black and African American communities worldwide. This is a two-part series.
