Rima L Vesely Flad: 2 books
Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies
Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. Vesely-Flad examines the religious and philosophical constructs of the black body in U.S. society, examining racialized ideas about purity and...
Buddhism and Whiteness
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The motivation behind this important volume is to weave together two distinct, but we think complementary, traditions – the philosophical engagement with race/whiteness and Buddhist philosophy – in order to explore the ways in which these traditions can inform, correct, and improve each other....