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Buddhism and Whiteness - Critical Reflections (Hardcover)
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Buddhism and Whiteness - Critical Reflections (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy of Race
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The motivation behind this important volume is to weave together
two distinct, but we think complementary, traditions - the
philosophical engagement with race/whiteness and Buddhist
philosophy - in order to explore the ways in which these traditions
can inform, correct, and improve each other. This exciting and
critically informed volume will be the first of its kind to bring
together essays that explicitly connect these two traditions and
will mark a major step both in understanding race and whiteness
(with the help of Buddhist philosophy) and in understanding
Buddhist philosophy (with the help of philosophy of race and
theorizations of whiteness). We expand upon a small, but growing,
body of work that applies Buddhist philosophical analyses to
whiteness and racial injustice in contemporary U.S. culture.
Buddhist philosophy has much to contribute to furthering our
understanding of whiteness and racial identity, the mechanisms that
create and maintain white supremacy, and the possibility of
dismantling white supremacy. We are interested both in the possible
insights that Buddhist metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical
analyses can bring to understanding race and whiteness, as well as
the potential limitations of such Buddhist-inspired approaches. In
their chapters, contributors draw on Buddhist philosophical and
contemplative traditions to offer fresh, insightful, and powerful
perspectives on issues regarding racial identity and whiteness,
including such themes as cultural appropriation, mechanisms of
racial injustice and racial justice, phenomenology of racial
oppression, epistemologies of racial ignorance, liberatory
practices with regard to racism, Womanism, and the intersections of
gender-based, raced-based, and sexuality-based oppressions. Authors
make use of both contemporary and ancient Buddhist philosophical
and contemplative traditions. These include various Asian
traditions, including Theravada, Mahayana, Tantra, and Zen, as well
as comparatively new American Buddhist traditions.
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