Modern Caribbean governments have been urged by civil society leaders to enact pro-reparations positions in line with the 2001 decision of the UN World Conference against Racism Racial Discrimination Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban Southern Africa Deckles social and economic history University of the West Indies Barbados reviews the debate and recommends reparations for present-day ancestors of enslaved Africans forced to labor in the Caribbean Deckles who was born and raised on a Caribbean sugar plantation intertwines the development of the concept of reparations with the history of Caribbean slavery and explanations of legal principles and the politics of post-colonialism Distributed in the US by Longleaf Services Inc Annotation 2013 Book News Inc Portland OR booknews com