Jeppe von Platz and David A. Reidy have posted The Structural Diversity of Historical Injustices on the web. Here is a taste:
Recent years have seen an increase in the number and boldness of calls for reparations, both internationally and intranationally. On the international front, the United Nations “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance” in 2001 in Durban, South Africa, generated a reparations demand by African states against European and North American states for the “crimes against humanity” of African colonialism and the slave trade. On the intranational front, reparations claims have been pressed in the United States by African-Americans, native Hawaiians, native Americans and others. And reparations have been made to Japanese Americans for forced internment during WWII. In this essay, we develop and defend a general theoretical framework for the analysis of reparations claims, whether international or intranational.