Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.
A personal preface: The dance of agency in the 21st century
Preface to the second edition
Part one. Racial pain and its discontents
Introduction: America's "atonement" and the right to a non-spoiled identity
Racial pain in the 21st century : spoiled identities and traumatized relations
Part two. White pain and the dance of agency
Narcissism and white pain : 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
Mediating white pain : ritual recovery, yellow ribbons, and patriotic wars
Part threethe pedagogy of healing
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
Postscript: Relational justice and the pedagogy of the wounded healer.
America's atonement : racial pain, recovery rhetoric, and the pedagogy of healing by Aaron David Gresson. ISBN 9781433128783. Published by Peter Lang in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.