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Is There Interest in Reconciliation?

Editor's Note: In volume 6:4 of Rhetoric & Public Affairs , John B. Hatch offered a critique and extension of Mark McPhails theory of "rhetoric as coherence," as that theory has been applied to the topic of racial reconciliation. Hatch wrote: "I aim to show that public intergroup reconciliation a phenomenon that has been largely neglected (in practice) and ignored (in scholarship) until recently can constitute a substantial rhetorical bridge between the reality of racism and McPhaiPs ideal of coherence in race relations, and thus merits greater attention." Hatch then proceeded to develop his views on rhetoric and racial reconciliation. To respond to this original essay, I have invited three leading rhetorical theorists, all of whom have devoted considerable time and effort to this topic: Kirt H. Wilson, Erik Doxtader, and Mark McPhail. I invite you to join with them in this important conversation.

K. Wilson

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