Transcending Private Friendships to Public Hearts: Implications of Interracial Friendships for Public Life

An increasingly multicultural society presents both challenges and opportunities to the public sphere. These challenges are frequently answered with calls for diversity and inclusion. However, this project suggests that interracial friendship overcomes the inherent limitations of diversity and inclusion and is therefore a more desirable alternative with which to enter the public sphere. This project explores the phenomenon of friendship and the particular notion that interracial friendship is critical to developing and disciplining our public hearts.</p><p> While long standing philosophical conceptions and more recent social science perspective of friendship are examined, friendship is conceptualized here using Emerson's notion of "truth" and "tenderness."

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Blackburn, Danielle L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Janie Harden Fritz
• Kathleen Glenister Roberts
• Ronald C. Arnett

• interracial
• friendship

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/326

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1339