ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes lessons learned from studying racial reconciliation in Australia for several months in 1997 and shares some insights about what it could mean for future efforts in the USA to solve its race problems through an Australian form of racial reconciliation (Salmond 1991; Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1994f; Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1994h). This chapter thus synthesizes two very different threads of thought: one about optimism that racial reconciliation will be successful in Australia and the second about ambivalence on how the Australian reconciliation process might be transferred to the US situation. Emphasis will be on the Australian reconciliation effort.
