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Bernadette Atuahene is a Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, and a faculty fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Harvards Kennedy School of Government. She has done extensive research, writing, speaking, and consulting on land issues. We Want Whats Ours is part of a larger body of work that includes a short documentary film called Sifuna Okwethu, which is about one South African familys fight to regain their land stolen by the apartheid authorities; and a curriculum to accompany the film that encourages students to explore how land injustice in South Africa relates to the many injustices they may have witnessed in their own communities. For more information, go to the book website: wewantwhatsours.com

- Introduction
- Part I: Dignity Takings
- 1: Dignity takings: A Theoretical Framework
- 2: Dignity Takings: The South African Case
- Part II: Dignity Restoration
- 3: Dignity Restoration: The Importance of Process
- 4: Dignity Restoration: The Importance of Communication
- 5: Dignity Restoration: The Importance of Restitution Awards
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Critical Methodology
- Appendix 2: Codebook