Public discourse frequently conflates the terms reparations and restitution; however, these concepts are neither synonymous nor interchangeable. The distinction between them is critical when examining historical redress for state-sanctioned harms, particularly in the context of African Americans. Historically, certain groups most notably Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II received forms of restitution that were structured as government or...

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