Between Love and Truth–Navigating Racial Conflict Using Restorative Justice

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Historically, citizenship has been conferred on those who are supposed to trade their loyalty and uncritical support for the benefits of belonging to the nation-state. This kind of citizenship is granted rather than claimed, bestowed rather than owned. This process is not active, but passive, with one being acted upon rather than acting. But there is another tradition of citizenship, a more robust and agential version —one we desperately need.