Being Buddha, Staying Woke: Racial Formation in Black Buddhist Writing

This article challenges academic explorations of Orientalism as an interaction between a white West and an Asian East within the context of American Buddhist communities. Taking as its focus twentieth- and twenty-first-century semiautobiographical writings by black American Buddhists, this article e...

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Main Author: McNicholl, Adeana (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2018]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 86, Issue: 4, Pages: 883-911
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B The Americas / Blacks / Buddhist / Autobiographical literature / Buddha 563 BC-483 BC / Interpretation of / Racism / Orientalism (Cultural sciences)
RelBib Classification:BL Buddhism
KBQ North America
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