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Race and Reconciliation
Redressing Wounds of Injustice
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2008
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In this enlightening and insightful monograph, John B. Hatch analyzes various public discourses that have attempted to address the racialized legacy of slavery, from West Africa to the United States, and in doing so, proposes a rhetorical theory of reconciliation. Recognizing the impact both of religious traditions and modern social values on the dialogue of reconciliation, Hatch examines these influences in tandem with contemporary critical race theory. Hatch explores the social-psychological and ethical challenges of racial reconciliation in light of work by Mark McPhail, Kenneth Burke, Paul Ricoeur, and others. He then develops his own framework for understanding reconciliation_both as the recovery of a coherent ethical grammar and as a process of rhetorical interaction and hermeneutic reorientation through apology, forgiveness, reparations, symbolic healing, and related genres of reparative action. What emerges from this work is a profound vision for the prospects of meaningful redress and reconciliation in American race relations.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2152-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3044-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
403
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Series Editor's Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction: The Racial Divide and the Emergence of Reconciliation No access
2 Recovering from Racism: An Exigence for (Theorizing) Reconciliation No access
3 Reconciliation, Rhetorically Considered No access
4 Coming to Terms in Reconciliation No access
5 Dialectics and (Dia)logology of Reconciliation No access
6 Reconciliation in Time: Actions and Transformations No access
7 Steps toward Reconciliation: From the United States to West Africa No access
8 The Leaders' Conference on Reconciliation and Development No access
9 There and Back Again: Taking Stock of Reconciliation's Progress No access
