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Book

The inner work of racial justice : healing ourselves and transforming our communities through mindfulness

Call Number

  • 305.8 M191 (CEN)

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Publication Information

[New York] : TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]

Physical Description

xiv, 353 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

Law professor and mindfulness practitioner Rhonda Magee shows that the work of racial justice begins with ourselves. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of our own tribe, and to blame others. The practice of embodied mindfulness--paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way--increases our emotional resilience, helps us to recognize our unconscious bias, and gives us the space to become less reactive and to choose how we respond to injustice. It is only by healing from injustices and dissolving our personal barriers to connection that we develop the ability to view others with compassion and to live in community with people of vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints. Incorporating mindfulness exercises, research, and Magee's hard-won insights, The Inner Work of Racial Justice offers a road map to a more peaceful world.

Contents

  • Grounding
  • Pausing and reckoning
  • Sitting with compassionate racial awareness
  • Honoring and remembering
  • Mindfulness practice as ColorInsight practice
  • True inheritance
  • Seeing
  • Looking at the reality of racism
  • Deepening insight through compassion
  • Seeing implicit bias
  • RAINing racism : recognizing, accepting, and investigating racism with non-identification
  • Developing mindful racial literacy amid complexity
  • Making the invisible visible through mindfulness
  • Being
  • Mindful social connection
  • Personal justice
  • Entering a room full of people (and elephants), and leaving a community
  • From identity-safety to bravery
  • Particularity as the doorway to empathy and common humanity
  • Doing
  • "Fuck!" and other mindful communications
  • Deconstructing whiteness and race
  • Color-blind racism and its consequences
  • The wolf in the water: working with strong emotion in real time
  • In living color: walking the walk of mindful racial justice
  • Liberating
  • Walking each other home
  • That everything may heal us
  • Hearts without borders: Deep interpersonal mindfulness
  • Stepping into freedom.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn