Abstract

ABSTRACT The 2017-2018 Task Force on Slavery and Justice at Furman University documented historical harms and initiated reparative action. In this article, I advance a theory of institutional optimism and pessimism that flows through the work of racial repair. Narrating my experience as co-chair of this process, I call others to learn from the protean agency and hope of minorities, rather than embrace cliché forms of institutional pessimism–forms used by allied majorities to avoid prolonged stakeholder activism that leads to healing.

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