Race and reconciliation
Subtitle: redressing wounds of injury
By: John B. Hatch.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780739121528
Subjects: Racism -- United States; Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- United States; Reconciliation -- Philosophy; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States; Rhetoric -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; African Americans -- Civil rights; African Americans -- Social conditions; Slavery -- Social aspects -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Description: "In this book, 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 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.