Racial reconciliation and the healing of a nation : beyond law and rights /

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Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	195 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice.
Subject:	Race discrimination -- United States. African Americans -- Civil rights. Racism -- United States. Reconciliation. African Americans -- Civil rights. Race discrimination. Race relations. Racism. Reconciliation. United States -- Race relations. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11359159

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Other authors / contributors:	Sarat, Austin, editor. Ogletree, Charles J., editor.
ISBN:	9781479844630 1479844632 9781479843534 1479843539
Notes:	"Also available as an ebook." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United States From Baltimore and Ferguson to Flint and Charleston, the dream of a post-racial era in America has run up against the continuing reality of racial antagonism. Current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty and ambivalence about the place and meaning of race - and especially the black/white divide - in American culture. They also suggest that the work of racial reconciliation remains incomplete. Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation seeks to assess where we are in that work, examining sources of continuing racial antagonism among blacks and whites. It also highlights strategies that promise to promote racial reconciliation in the future. Rather than revisit arguments about the importance of integration, assimilation, and reparations, the contributors explore previously unconsidered perspectives on reconciliation between blacks and whites. Chapters connect identity politics, the rhetoric of race and difference, the work of institutions and actors in those institutions, and structural inequities in the lives of blacks and whites to our thinking about tolerance and respect. Going beyond an assessment of the capacity of law to facilitate racial reconciliation, Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation challenges readers to examine social, political, cultural, and psychological issues that fuel racial antagonism, as well as the factors that might facilitate racial reconciliation.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : bridging the black-white divide / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat
Racial fakery and the next postracial reconciliation in the age of Dolezal / Matthew Pratt Guterl
Race and science : preconciliation as reconciliation / Osagie K. Obasogie
From perceiving injustice to achieving racial justice : interrogating the impact of racial brokers on racial antagonism & racial reconciliation / Carla Shedd
Weaponized empathy : emotion and the limits of racial reconciliation in policing / Naomi Murakawa
Black deaths matter, too : doing racial reconciliation after the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC / Valerie C. Cooper
The 'post-national' racial state, domestication, and multiscalar organizing in the new millennium / Kirstie A. Dorr.

Racial reconciliation and the healing of a nation : beyond law and rights /

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