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2 months ago

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.

📰 Racial Formation in Black Buddhist Writing (A free, 29-page article from 2018)

Tags: #Caste #USA #EngagedBuddhism #AfricanAmerica

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The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

5 months ago

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.

📰 Language on Trial (A free, 16-page article from 2023)

Tags: #Linguistics #Race #Justice #AfricanAmerica

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A. Rivera

@bloodravenlib.bsky.social

7 months ago

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 Univer...

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 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

#bigotry #racism #Harvard #academia #HigherEd #BLM #Black #AfricanAmerica