This is a working list of resources for addressing racial justice and implicit bias as a path of practice. If you have resources you would like to share, please Connect with us.
Resources From the Plum Village Community
Parallax Press – Books
- Together We Are One by Thich Nhat Hanh (order from Parallax)
- Dharma, Color and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism edited by Ryumon Hilda Gutierrez; includes an article by Kaira Jewel Lingo (order from Amazon)
Videos
- “Where Spirit and Action Meet: Continuing the Legacy of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” event in NYC about the inter-being of spirituality and action in the struggle for racial justice, ABC Home, September 2015 (click to view)
- Sacred Justice Retreat Question and Answer Panel at Blue Cliff Monastery, January 2016 (click to view)
- Introduction to Racial Justice, Blue Cliff Wake Up Retreat, June 2016 (click to view)
- ARISE presentation at Order of Interbeing Retreat, Blue Cliff Monastery, April 2017 (click to view)
- “Mindful Resistance” three sessions of teachings and Dharma discussion led by teachers from the Thich Nhat Hanh community and other spiritual traditions, launched May 2017 (click to view)
Transcripts
- Racial Equity Session at Deer Park’s English Retreat, 2015 (download pdf)
- Racial Justice Talk at Sangha Facilitators Gathering in Northern California, by Victoria Mausisa, July 2015 (download pdf)
Mindfulness Bell Articles
- Autumn 2015 – “The Path of Racial and Social Equity” by Valerie Brown and Marisela Gomez (download pdf)
- Autumn 2015 – “Turning Durians into True Love“ by Sister Hai An (Sister Ocean) (download pdf)
- Autumn 2015 – Beloved Community by Larry Ward (download pdf)
- Autumn 2015 – Deep Listening by Joanne Friday (download pdf)
Articles by Marisela Gomez
- “Listening is Sacred Activism,” November 10, 2016 (click to view)
- “Sacred Activism: Mindfulness and Racial Justice,” September 10, 2016 (click to view)
- “Recognizing and Healing Racism in Society and in Our Bodies: A Radical Act of Sacred Justice,” January 5, 2017 (click to view)
- “Staying woke: The courage to make change manifest in Baltimore,” September 23, 2017 (click to view)
Resources From Other Communities
Websites
Books/Articles
- Blackwell, Kelsey – Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People
- McIntosh, Peggy – Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (pdf)
- Yang, Larry – Awakening Together in Inquiring Mind, Vol 31/#2/Spring 2015 (pdf)
- Alexander, Michelle – The New Jim Crow
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi – Between the World and Me
- DeGruy, Joy – Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
- DiAngelo, Robin – What Does It Mean To Be White?
- Feagin, Joe – The White Racial Frame
- Kendall, Frances E. – Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to
- Authentic Relationships Across Race
- Kivel, Paul – Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work For Racial Justice
- Lane, Alycee J. – Nonviolence Now
- Manuel, Zenju Earthlyn – The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender
- Okun, Tema – The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teachings about Race and Racism to People Who Don’t Want to Know
- Powell, John – A Racing Towards Justice
- Stevenson, Bryan – Just Mercy
- Wilkerson, Isabel – The Warmth of Other Suns
- Williams, Angel Kyodo – Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
- Vera A. Myers – Moving Diversity Forward published by the American Bar Association
Charts and Training Resources
- Chart of Definitions: Systemic Violence Resulting from Systemic Oppression (pdf). Definitions for intentional and unintentional, overt and subtle forms of violence, from Handbook of Diversity Management
Videos/DVDs
- Race: The Power Of An Illusion
- Cracking the Codes: Unlocking the System of Racial Inequality
- Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
Podcasts
The Lotus Institute
On Being with Krista Tippett
- Patrisse Cullors and Robert Ross — The Resilient World We’re Building Now
- GRACE LEE BOGGS — A Century in the World
- RACHEL YEHUDA — How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations
- RAMI NASHASHIBI — A New Coming Together
- GWENDOLYN ZOHARAH SIMMONS AND LUCAS JOHNSON — The Movement,
- Remembered Forward
- THICH NHAT HANH, CHERI MAPLES AND LARRY WARD — Mindfulness, Suffering,
- and Engaged Buddhism
- JOHN LEWIS — The Art & Discipline of Nonviolence
- BRENÉ BROWN — The Courage to Be Vulnerable
- RICHARD RODRIGUEZ — The Fabric of Our Identity
- IMANI PERRY — The Fabric of Our Identity
- MICHEL MARTIN — The Fabric of Our Identity
- VINCENT HARDING — Civility, History, and Hope