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Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections

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By Rhonda Magee — 2019

Rhonda Magee's essay Taking and Making Refuge in Racial [Whiteness] Awareness and Racial Justice Work is one of the essays in this collection that explores whiteness and racial injustice through the lens of Buddhism.

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Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons

Black Women and Social Justice Education explores Black women’s experiences and expertise in teaching and learning about justice in a range of formal and informal educational settings.

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Stephanie Y. Evans, Andrea D. Domingue, Tania D. Mitchell
2025
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Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History

Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman.

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Stephanie Y. Evans
2008
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We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

“Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous "Harper’s Letter,” signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division.

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adrienne maree brown
2020
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a...

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adrienne maree brown
2025
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Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement

Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement is one of the single most important volumes of modern African-American poetry.

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Nikki Giovanni
1970
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Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (Humanism in Practice)

Feminism and atheism are "dirty words" that Americans across the political spectrum love to debate—and hate. Throw them into a blender and you have a toxic brew that supposedly defies decency, respectability, and Americana.

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Sikivu Hutchinson
2020
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Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory—a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people’s sense of itself.

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Ron Eyerman
2008
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history,...

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Clint Smith III
2021
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people.

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Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele
2018
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

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Angela Y. Davis (Authors), Cornel West (Preface)
2016
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