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UNDERSTANDING WHITENESS and RACISM in the US:
Tatum, Beverley Daniel. Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Thandeka. Learning to be White
Lazarre, Jane. Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons.
Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. (Also: You Call This a Democracy. And Boys
Will be Men--excellent resource on gender training. See www.paulkivel.com.)
Macintosh, Peggy. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work
in Women's Studies.
Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Confessions of a Race Traitor.
Frankenburg, Ruth. White Women, Race Matters.
Baldwin, James. White Man's Guilt.
Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A Multicultural History of America (excellent history of racism in the US).
Wise, Tim. White Like Me (and many other books/articles; see www.timwise.org).
For EXCELLENT ARTICLES ON RACISM AND BUILDING ALLIANCES, see www.unlearningracism.org
RESOURCES WITH a BUDDHIST CONTEXT in the US (compiled by Kenji Liu and Swan Keyes):
1. Making the Invisible Visible: Healing Racism in Our Buddhist Communities.
2. Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism. Issues on uilding Alliances to Address Racism, Class, Buddhism
in Las Americas, Asian American Buddhists, and African American Buddhists.
3. Dresser , Marianne (ed). Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier.
4. hooks, bell. Contemplation and Transformation.
5. Willis, Jan. Dreaming Me: From Baptist to Buddhist, One Woman's Spiritual Journey.
6. Queen, Christopher S. (ed). Engaged Buddhism in the West.
7. Green, Paula. Walking for Peace: Nipponzan Myohoji.
8. Chappell, David. W. Racial Diversity in the Soka Gakkai.
9. Friedman, Lenore and Moon, Sue (eds). Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Enlightenment
ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES (for thinking about Zen in the US)
Keywords: Orientalism, stereotypes, history (compiled by Kenji Liu)
1. Wu, Frank H. Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White.
2. Lee, Robert G. Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture.
3. Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore.
4. Yu, Henry. Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America.
RECOMMENDED FILMS ON RACISM:
Race: The Power of an Illusion. By California Newsreel. Excellent documentary. See: http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=cn0149
Bamboozled. By Spike Lee. (And many other films by Lee.)
The Color of Fear. 8 men of different racial backgrounds, very useful & somewhat problematic film dealing with racism;
focuses on getting one white guy to see past his "colorblindness." By Stirfry Productions.
Last Chance for Eden (men & women, mainly addressing racism, with some acknowledgment of other isms) By Stirfry Productions.
Skin Deep (18-25 year old college students dealing with racism).
Gentleman's Agreement (film from late 1940's addressing anti-Semitism and what it means to be an ally)
RESOURCES ON OTHER ISMS TO BE ADDED (and recommendations/feedback for any of these lists always welcome)
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