America's Atonement: Racial Pain, Recovery Rhetoric, and the Pedagogy of Healing -- 2nd Edition

Contents: The Dance of Agency in the 21st Century – Racial Pain and its Discontents – America’s «Atonement» and the Right to a Non -Spoiled Identity – Racial Pain in the 21st Century – Spoiled Identities and Traumatized Relations – White Pain and the Dance of Agency – The White Male and the Masculinity Crisis - Again – White Studies and Racial Pain in the Academy – The Plight of the Neo-Liberal Agenda in the Existential Moment – Ritual Recovery, Yellow Ribbons, and Patriotic Wars – Multiculturalism and Social Justice – White Pain and the Search for a Non – Oppressive Cultural Turn – Toward a Psychopedagogy of Healing – Mourning and Mending Difference in the New Millennium – Relational Justice and the Pedagogy of the Wounded Healer.