Being Buddha, Staying Woke: Racial Formation in Black Buddhist Writing
Taking as its focus twentieth- and twenty-first-century semiautobiographical writings by black American Buddhists, this article explores how black American Buddhists engage with Buddhist teachings to understand themselves as racialized subjects on local, national, and transnational levels.
Language on Trial
Although Jeantel, a close friend of Trayvon Martin, was an ear-witness (by cell phone) to all but the final minutes of Zimmerman’s interaction with Trayvon, and testified for nearly six hours about it, her testimony was disregarded in jury deliberations. Through a linguistic analysis of Jeantel’s speech, comments from a juror, and a broader contextualization of stigmatized speech forms and linguistic styles, we argue that the lack of acknowledgment of dialectal variation has harmful social and legal consequences for speakers of stigmatized dialects.
In just another racist day in the good old U.S. of A., disguised as "university policy."
> Harvard To Remove Black Lives Matter Message From Biology Professors’ Office Windows https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/21/blm-sign/
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Harvard To Remove Black Lives Matter Message From Biology Professors’ Office Windows | News | The Harvard Crimson
A Harvard administrator told two professors on Tuesday that a Black Lives Matter sign displayed in their office windows would be taken down by this Saturday, describing it as a violation of the University’s campus use rules.
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The Show of Delights
What does it do to a person to study delight? Or, as it emerges, to study joy every single day? What do you discover?
🟡 Bathers On The Harlem River, New York City 1939 Saul Kovner
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Bathers On The Harlem River, New York City 1939 Saul Kovner
From a wonderful work showing several African Americans, including a woman holding a baby, sitting by the water or bathing. By Saul Kovner (1904-1981), among America’s most renowned caricaturists.
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