Buddhism and Whiteness : critical reflections / edited by George Yancy and Emily McRae ; foreword by Jan Willis ; afterword by Charles Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yancy, George, editor.

McRae, Emily, 1981- editor.

Series:

Philosophy of race

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Race relations.

Racism--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Racism.

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Race awareness.

Physical Description:

xxi, 357 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

"In this unprecedented book, contributors use Buddhist philosophical and contemplative traditions, both ancient and modern, and deploy critical philosophy of race, and critical whiteness studies, to address the proverbial elephant in the room-whiteness"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this very important public service announcement...": aka Buddhism as usual in the academy / Sharon Suh

Undoing whiteness in American Buddhist modernism: critical, collective, and contextual turns / Ann Gleig

White delusion and avidya: a Buddhist approach to understanding and deconstructing white ignorance / Emily McRae

Whiteness and the construction of Buddhist philosophy in Meiji Japan / Leah Kalmanson

Racism and Anatta: black Buddhists, embodiment, and interpretations of non-self / Rima Vesely-Flad

"The tranquil meditator" / Laurie Cassidy

"Beyond Vietnam": Martin Luther King, Jr., Thích Nhat Hanh, and the confluence of black and engaged Buddhism in the Vietnam War / Carolyn M. Jones Medine

The unbearable will to whiteness / Jasmine Syedullah

Making consciousness an ethical project: moral phenomenology in Buddhist ethics and white anti-racism / Jessica Locke

"bell hooks made me a Buddhist": liberatory cross-cultural learning-or is this just another case of how white people steal everything? / Carol J. Moeller

Excoriating the demon of whiteness from within: disrupting whiteness through the tantric Buddhist practice of chöd and exploring whiteness from within the tradition / Lama Justin von Bujdoss

The interdependence and emptiness of whiteness / Bryce Huebner

Taking and making refuge in racial (whiteness) awareness and racial justice work / Rhonda Magee

A Buddhist phenomenology of the white mind / Joy Brennan

The white feminism in Rita Gross' critique of gender identities and reconstruction of Buddhism / Hsiao Lan Hu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Buddhism and whiteness

ISBN:

9781498581028

1498581021

OCLC:

1085634262