Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
10 best books like Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation (Angel Kyodo Williams): White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness, All About Love: New Visions
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially,...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941414 |
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0767903692 |
“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
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? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing...
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
| ISBN | 1849352097 |
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing visionary fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. This book brings twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections...
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
| Author | Crystal Marie Fleming |
| ISBN | 0807050776 |
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler colonialism,...
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
| Author | Sonya Renee Taylor |
| ISBN | 1626569762 |
A global movement guided by love
Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.
The Body Is Not an Apology offers...
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”
That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a...
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
| Author | Mark Epstein |
| ISBN | 0767902351 |
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way. Going to Pieces Without...
All About Love: New Visions
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0688168442 |
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....
In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
| Author | Yongey Mingyur |
| ISBN | 0525512535 |
At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat,...
Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." — Arianna...
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
| ISBN | 1849352607 |
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent...
The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender
“What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, color, and sex?”
In The Way of Tenderness, Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using wisdom...
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
| Author | Sarah Schulman |
| ISBN | 1551526433 |
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep,...
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
| Author | Duncan Ryūken Williams |
| ISBN | 0674986539 |
This groundbreaking history tells the little-known story of how, in one of our country’s darkest hours, Japanese Americans fought to defend their faith and preserve religious freedom.
The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it...
Mindful of Race Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm
In a moment of racial tension, have you ever tried to simply “shrug o?” your outrage? Or put on a pleasant face so that others wouldn’t feel uncomfortable? Or dared to take a stand—only to find that it in?amed the situation? With Mindful of Race, Ruth King offers another option:
To tend...
| Author | Janice Dean Willis |
| ISBN | 1573229091 |
Cited by Time magazine as one of the top religious innovators of the new millennium, Jan Willis has an extraordinary story to tell. Raised in a segregated Alabama mining camp, she eventually would become a renowned Indo-Tibetan scholar and professor of religion at Wesleyan University. Along the way,...
