ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that there is a global reparations movement but the model this movement consists of is not like the traditional social movements model described by social movement theorists. It also argues that the various calls for reparations is in some way the argument over how the financing and distribution of resources is organised in the fight to counter racism, which is the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The chapter suggests that the consequences are institutional racism and that is what needs to be tackled. It provides that the way to tackle the call for reparations for the legacy of the slave trade, institutional racism, is by positive reparations which involves peaceful means where people work in collaboration with one another. The chapter also suggests that these movements are global in the sense that they are transnational in nature, although they do not sit squarely within the traditional model of social movements.
