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Readings and Viewings on Race

Special thanks go to Dharma friend Cory Douglas for compiling and sharing this thoughtful and generous list. Are you wondering how readings and viewings on race are part of yoga practice? Hmmm . . .


Experiential and critique:


Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: Random House, 1963.


James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley Debate (1965, Cambridge University, England)



PBS news feature about the Baldwin/Buckley debate


Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. London: Spiegal and Grau, New York 2015.

Cone, James. The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011.


DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility. NY: Beacon, 2018.


Fanon, Franz. Black Skin, White Mask. New York: Grove Press, 1952.


Eddo-Lodge, Reni. Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race. London, UK: Bloomsbury Circus, 2017.


Hughes, Richard T. Myths America lives by: white supremacy and the stories that give us meaning. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2018.


Historical context:


Gordon, Linda. The second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.



Johnson, Walter. The Broken Heart of America. New York: Basic Books, 2020.



Loewen, James W. Sundown towns: a hidden dimension of American racism. New York: New Press, 2005.



Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: the origins of our discontents. New York: Random House, 2020.


Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014.


Looking behind the veil:


Brewster, Fanny. The racial complex: a Jungian perspective on culture and race. London; New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.


Kendi, Ibram X. How to be an antiracist. New York: One World, 2019.


Menakem, Resmaa. My grandmother's hands: racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies. Las Vegas, NV: Central Recovery Press, 2017.


Seshandi-Crooks, Kalpana. Desiring Whiteness, A Lacanian Analysis of Race. London: Routledge, 2000.


Williams, Angel Kyodo. Radical Dharma: talking race, love, and liberation. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2016.


A couple more resources:


Allyship infographic (a "how-to")


PBS Series: Asian Americans


Since this list is not exhaustive, your additions are welcome! Please include your recommended reading and viewing in the comment field below or email me: linda@onebodyyoga.online




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