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When family narratives don't match historical reality

My dad keeps saying our family never owned slaves but we've lived in this house for three generations and I'm starting to wonder how we could afford it.

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What we've seen

Inherited benefits become invisible when family stories obscure the mechanisms of advantage.

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“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical and economic case?”

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