Howdy. While reading "The Case For Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, I wrote down every word I didn't recognize and the questions my brain produced while reading. I figured I would put part of my notes here, and build on them, to better understand the article.
Kleptocracy (mentioned more than once) - a government or state in which those in power exploit and steal; rule by a thief. Coates seems to be calling the local government of Chicago and the Red Lining districts a kleptocracy.
Debt peonage - the use of laborers bound in servitude because of debt. This is how the tenants of the Red Lining district couldn't get out of thier contracts.
Sharecropping - a tenant farmer who gives part of his crop up as rent.
Rosenwald School - this was apparently the informal term used for the "black only" schools in the South and the segregated community.
Nuremberg Laws - Nazi law that prohibited relationships with people who basically weren't Aryan enough. The corrupted Federal Housing Administration set up "racial policies" around the Red Lining districts and other parts of Chicago that resembled the Nuremberg Laws.
Halcyon talk - halcyon- denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful. In relation to the article, basically people started realizing that segregation wasn't an actual necessity.
Brown vs. Board of Education - Supreme Court case that finally abolished segregated schools across the nation.
There were a few things in the article that I do not recall ever hearing about, and want to look into. For one, why was I never made to know the Supreme Court cases? Like honestly? But as a future history teacher, I intend to know of all the things Coates spoke of in this article.
What to look up for next time: Chicago bombings; how normal home owning works vs why the CBL had to even form; negative wealth.
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