The Inner Work of Racial Justice | Free Book
In a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healing is an ongoing process. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of those like us, and to blame others. This book profoundly shows that in order to have the difficult conversations required for working toward racial justice, inner work is essential. Through the practice of embodied mindfulness--paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way--we increase our emotional resilience, recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered.
As Sharon Salzberg, New York Times-bestselling author of Real Happiness writes, “Rhonda Magee is a significant new voice I've wanted to hear for a long time—a voice both unabashedly powerful and deeply loving in looking at race and racism.” Magee shows that embodied mindfulness calms our fears and helps us to exercise self-compassion. These practices help us to slow down and reflect on microaggressions--to hold them with some objectivity and distance--rather than bury unpleasant experiences so they have a cumulative effect over time. Magee helps us develop the capacity to address the fears and anxieties that would otherwise lead us to re-create patterns of separation and division.
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.
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"This book opens doors for all of us to better understand the
conditioning that keeps us feeling so separate and apart. Rhonda Magee
is a significant new voice I've wanted to hear for a long time—a voice
both unabashedly powerful and deeply loving in looking at race and
racism. Most important, Rhonda's voice is a practical one,
illuminating a path each of us can follow to a life filled with far
greater awareness, connection, and peace."
—Sharon Salzberg, New York Times-bestselling author of
Real Happiness
“How can we begin to explore, understand, and finally, undo the
painful injustice of racism that is so deeply embedded in us?
Illuminated by her work in meditation and mindfulness practice, Rhonda
Magee has spent her life considering this question. Her knowledge,
wisdom, sensitivity, and compassion shine through every page of
The Inner Work of Racial Justice. This book should be read
slowly and carefully by everyone. Do its exercises, ponder its
nuances. Take it to heart—you can’t afford not to.”
—Norman Fischer, founder and spiritual director of the Everyday Zen
Foundation
“With warmth, knowledge, and personal storytelling, Rhonda Magee
offers us a path to look into the painful truths of structural racial
oppression with mindfulness and compassion, which provides the
necessary emotional grounding to skillfully work through the pain to
generate new solutions through authentic connections to more
communities. It may take generations to undo the harms of systemic
racial oppression, but with this revolutionary book, Rhonda brings us
many generations closer.”
—Helen Weng, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of California at San Francisco
“A powerful, courageous, and compelling exploration of the role of
mindfulness in working toward racial justice, and of working toward
racial justice as an element of mindfulness. This book is essential
reading for our time.”
—Joan Halifax, PhD, founder of the Upaya Zen Center
“A powerful and important book on how to apply mindfulness to address
racial, social, and economic divisions in a way that nurtures
individual and group healing and integration. Rhonda Magee models the
compassion, courage, and wisdom needed to understand, examine, and
deconstruct very painful manifestations of racism in our society.”
—Due Quach, author of Calm Clarity
"How brilliant! How useful! How essential right now!
Rhonda Magee frames racism as one of the habits of mind that lead
straight to suffering, then applies the wisdom of mindfulness to
untangle the knots, compulsions, and delusions that hold this habit in
place. She shares finely-tuned practices and stories that speak to the
heart and mind. Her compassion is astounding and a teaching for each
and every one of us."
—Amy Gross, contributing editor at
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
“Making explicit connections between personal and social
change, Rhonda Magee offers us a transformative roadmap forward for
racial justice work. Infused with both love and rigor, this book is
essential reading, full of hard-won insights from a teacher who walks
her talk.”
—David Treleaven, PhD, author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
“According to Rhonda Magee, we have been living in an
uneasy truce between races since the civil rights movement, and Magee
brilliantly facilitates strengthening our will and courage to turn
toward each other despite our fears. In essence, she puts shoes on our
bruised feet, grabs us by the hand, and walks us further down the path
started over fifty years ago."
—Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, author of
The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and
Gender
"An invitation to tend to our individual and collective
racial healing, this book contains a powerful message of hope in light
of the complex problems before us. In it, we find that through radical
mindfulness it may be possible to develop the racial literacy needed
to create and sustain the kind of society our founding fathers
envisioned."
—Angel Acosta, former board member of the Center for Contemplative
Mind in Society
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