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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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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society...

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So You Want to Talk About Race

Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about.

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I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man.

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Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement

In recent years, Critical Race Theory has vaulted out of the academy and into courtrooms, newsrooms, and onto the streets.

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The Minority Experience: Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities

It's hard to be in the minority. If you're the only person from your ethnic or cultural background in your organization or team, you probably know what it's like to be misunderstood or marginalized. You might find yourself inadvertently overlooked or actively silenced.

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid...

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history.

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Between the World and Me

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.

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Dark Days

Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

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I Am Not Your Negro

In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King.

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Whiteness