John B. Hatch is associate professor of communication and the Wendt Ethics Professor at the University of Dubuque.

• Chapter 1 ContentsChapter 2 List of TablesChapter 3 Foreword by the Series EditorChapter 4 PrefaceChapter 5 AcknowledgmentsPart 6 I. The Rhetoric of Race: From Racism to ReconciliationChapter 7 1. Introduction: THe Racial Divide and the Emergence of ReconciliationChapter 8 2. Recovering from Racism: An Exigence for (Theorizing) ReconciliationChapter 9 3. Reconciliation, Rhetorically ConsideredPart 10 II. Theorizing ReconciliationChapter 11 4. Coming to Terms in ReconciliationChapter 12 5. Dialectics and (Dia)logology of ReconciliationChapter 13 6. Reconciliation in Time: Actions and TransformationsPart 14 III. Reconciling the Heirs of Slavery's LegacyChapter 15 7. Steps toward Reconciliation: From the United States to West AfricaChapter 16 8. The Leaders' Conference on Reconciliation and DevelopmentChapter 17 9. There and Back Again: Taking Stock of Reconciliation's ProgressChapter 18 10. A Prospect on Racial ReconciliationChapter 19 BibliographyChapter 20 IndexChapter 21 About the Author

Hatch has written a definitive work on the rhetoric of racial reconciliation that will have a major impact on both the field of communication and the public conversation about race and reconciliation in this country. He has made an important and lasting contribution to that conversation, and has established himself as one of the few European American scholars whose understanding of race and reconciliation transcends the abstractions of rhetorical analysis and addresses the concrete realities of white racial recovery and resistance.