Clyde Coates The Case For Reparations Summary

structural violence is a form of violence where social structures inhibits the ability of individuals and societies from reaching their full potential and it limits their basic needs. Social structures, like economic, political, religious and etc., are responsible for the marginalization of minority groups in the population and thus producing a cycle of inequalities. For example, Coates in his article “The Case for Reparations” demonstrates the effects of the absence of legal protection for African Americans before the civil rights movement. Clyde Ross was an intelligent boy, but the local laws limited his ability to achieve his academic potential because he lived too far from school with no access to transportation. In addition, the property