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Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections (Philosophy of Race) by George Yancy; Emily McRae; Janice Dean Willis; Charles Johnson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections (Philosophy of Race) about?

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 w

Who reads Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections (Philosophy of Race)?

Author

George Yancy; Emily McRae; Janice Dean Willis; Charles Johnson

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated; Lexington Books

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781498581042

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Religion