Journey Of Reconciliation Research Articles

Black Studies and Public Humanities

Abstract This essay brings Black Studies, now commonly referred to as Africana Studies, further into the public humanities dialogue. Scholars in the public humanities field are urging a practice of humanities that is collaborative and committed to racial and social justice, especially in the context of community-based scholarship. The origin and current protocols of Black Studies are also community-centric and operate within a liberatory framework in that it is ultimately concerned with the vitality of Black people across the diaspora. The essay describes the correlation between Black Studies and public humanities and discusses the usefulness of both disciplines in reckoning with slavery and its legacies at higher education institutions. In addition to giving a short genealogy of public humanities and Black Studies, the essay uses William & Mary’s Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation and Chesapeake Heartland: An African American at African American Humanities Project at Washington College as examples on how to possibly navigate the challenges ahead as public humanists and Black Studies scholars critically engage with the public on memorialization, reconciliation, and redress.

Journey of reconciliation

Journey of reconciliation

Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu

In the eyes of many, chairing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was the crowning contribution of Archbishop Desmond Tutu to his country, and to the world at large. Against the backdrop of his role leading the TRC, chairing the many victims’ hearings and guiding the amnesty proceedings, the article focuses on Tutu’s views on forgiveness, reconciliation, and justice. The TRC operated within the mandates given to it by the South African parliament, but Tutu with his theological background, strong views, and dynamic personality put his own stamp on the truth and reconciliation process inSouth Africa. The role of religion in establishing truth and working towards justice, forgiveness, and reconciliation was controversial, but for the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, it was inconceivable to embark on the journey of reconciliation without faith in Jesus Christ, the ultimate Reconciler.

Hospitalitas Menurut Amos Yong dan Falsafah Hidup Orang Basudara untuk Dialog Interreligius

This article aims to explore hospitality as the basic character needed in developing interreligious dialogues. The underlying idea is that every religion has its particular characteristics of hospitality that can be valuable to start an effective dialogue. The author discerns the local wisdom phrased as hidup orang basudara as one of the chracteristics of the Moluccan hospitality that can be used to develop interreligious dialogue in Molucca, Indonesia. By drawing insights from the derriderian concept of “true hospitality” that surpasses ‘friendship’, hospitality model is offered as a better alternative in the praxis of building interreligious dialogue. This model is also considered more relevant to the people of Molucca, especially among the Christians and the Muslims, during the post-conflict period. The concept of hospitality is in line with some of the Moluccan local wisdoms that are explored in this article as well. In order to embark on the journey of reconciliation, people are invited to go beyond friendship, that is, towards living together as brothers and sisters.

On the journey of reconciliation: the university archivist as guide, guardian and muse

Its recently celebrated 250th anniversary (2015–2016) provided Rutgers University with an opportunity for critical and inclusive examination of its past, particularly the role of slavery and instit...

Book Review: The Journey of Reconciliation: Groaning for a New Creation in Africa

Book Review: The Journey of Reconciliation: Groaning for a New Creation in Africa

You Hold Me Up by M. Gray Smith

Gray Smith, Monique. You Hold Me Up. Illustrated by Danielle Daniel. Orca Book Publishers, 2017.
 Monique Gray Smith is not a prolific author, but her works have impact. She writes from her knowledge of the impact of the Indian Residential Schools on Canadian Indigenous people. Gray Smith is a mixed-heritage woman (Cree, Lakota and Scottish) who wrote this book “to remind us of our common humanity and the importance of holding each other up with respect and dignity.” “With this book,” she says, “we are embarking on a journey of reconciliation and healing.” 
 Gray Smith uses simple terms and sentences, appropriate to a Kindergarten to Grade 3 audience, to describe the things that individuals can do in their relationships to move forward in reconciliation. Danielle Daniel’s brightly coloured, stylized illustrations reflect these concepts. The concepts include being kind to each other, sharing, learning, playing, laughing and singing together, and comforting, respecting and listening to each other. 
 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls all Canadians to move forward together in reconciliation, a task that can appear to be daunting and overwhelming. Gray Smith provides a simple blueprint for small steps forward, the most basic being that we can “hold each other up.”
 This book is highly recommended for elementary school libraries and public libraries.
 Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Sandy Campbell
 Sandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines. Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give.

Writing selves as mourning and Vita Nova : Abdellah Taïa’s Un pays pour mourir

Using for the most part Kleinian analysis, this article presents Abdellah Taia’s latest novel Un pays pour mourir as a work of reparative mourning. It is divided in three parts: “Mourning the father,” “Melancholy gender and mourning,” and “Reparative work through characterization.” The approach encompasses the sociology of the author and a blend of online interviews, social media, and fictional accounts of “family”. The article finds that it is not in (psycho)analysis but within the realm of writing the self/selves, and more specifically the multiple characters invented in the novel, that Taia the author revisits the relationship with the father, his younger self, sets up a dialogue between his more fluid gender and his more rigid identity, between his younger and his older self, and tries to reach some kind of mutual understanding, on the way to possible reintegration. Taia accomplishes what Klein sees as a journey of reconciliation since, for the psychoanalyst, it is by reinstating inside himself the “g...

Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides

Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides

Derek Charles Catsam . Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides . (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century.) Lexington : University Press of Kentucky . 2009 . Pp. xiv, 421. $50.00.

Derek Charles Catsam . Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides . (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century.) Lexington : University Press of Kentucky . 2009 . Pp. xiv, 421. $50.00.

ReviewDerek Charles Catsam, Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. Pp. 432. Cloth $50.00.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBOOK REVIEWSReview Derek Charles Catsam, Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. Pp. 432. Cloth $50.00.John H. BarnhillJohn H. BarnhillHouston, Texas Search for more articles by this author Houston, TexasPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 95, Number 1Winter 2010 A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.1.0115 Views: 7Total views on this site Copyright 2010 by the Association for the Study of African American Life and HistoryPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Freedom's main line: the journey of reconciliation and the Freedom Rides

Freedom's main line: the journey of reconciliation and the Freedom Rides

Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides (review)

Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides (review)

The Limits of Egalitarianism: Radical Pacifism, Civil Rights, and the Journey of Reconciliation

Research Article| January 01 2004 The Limits of Egalitarianism: Radical Pacifism, Civil Rights, and the Journey of Reconciliation Marian Mollin Marian Mollin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 112–138. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-88-112 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marian Mollin; The Limits of Egalitarianism: Radical Pacifism, Civil Rights, and the Journey of Reconciliation. Radical History Review 1 January 2004; 2004 (88): 112–138. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-88-112 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. 2004 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc.2004 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement

Best known as the man who organized the Great March on Washington in 1963, Bayard Rustin was a vital force in the civil rights movement from the 1940s through the 1980s. Rustins's activism embraced the wide range of crucial issues of his time: communism, international pacifism, and race relations. Rustin's long activist career began with his association with A. Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Then, as a member of A. J. Muste's Fellowship of Reconciliation, he participated in the Journey of Reconciliation (an early version of the Freedom Rides of 1961). He was a close associate of Martin Luther King in Montgomery and Atlanta and rose to prominence as organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin played a key role in applying nonviolent direct action to American race relations while rejecting the separatism of movements like Black Power in the 1960s, even at the risk of his being marginalized by the younger generation of civil rights activists. In his later years he tried to hold the civil rights coalition together and to fight for the economic changes he thought were necessary to decrease racism. Daniel Levine has written the first scholarly biography that examines Rustin's public as well as private persona in light of his struggles as a gay black man and as an activist who followed his own principles and convictions. The result is a rich portrait of a complex, indomitable advocate for justice in American society.