George Yancy is professor of philosophy at Emory University.

Emily McRae is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico.

Foreword

Jan Willis

Introduction

Emily McRae and George Yancy

1. "We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming to Bring You This Very Important Public Service Announcement . . .": aka Buddhism as Usual in the Academy

Sharon Suh

2. Undoing Whiteness in American Buddhist Modernism: Critical, Collective, and Contextual Turns

Ann Gleig

3. White Delusion and Avidya: A Buddhist Approach to Understanding and Deconstructing White Ignorance

Emily McRae

4. Whiteness and the Construction of Buddhist Philosophy in Meiji Japan

Leah Kalmanson

5. Racism and Anatta: Black Buddhists, Embodiment, and Interpretations of Non-Self

Rima Vesely-Flad

6. "The Tranquil Meditator"

Laurie Cassidy

7. "Beyond Vietnam": Martin Luther King, Jr., Thích Nh?t H?nh, and the Confluence of Black and Engaged Buddhism in the Vietnam War

Carolyn M. Jones Medine

8. The Unbearable Will to Whiteness

Jasmine Syedullah

9. Making Consciousness an Ethical Project: Moral Phenomenology in Buddhist Ethics and White Anti-Racism

Jessica Locke

10. "bell hooks Made Me a Buddhist": Liberatory Cross-Cultural Learning-Or Is This Just Another Case of How White People Steal Everything?

Carol J. Moeller

11. Excoriating the Demon of Whiteness from Within: Disrupting Whiteness through the Tantric Buddhist Practice of Chöd and Exploring Whiteness from Within the Tradition

Lama Justin von Bujdoss

12. The Interdependence and Emptiness of Whiteness

Bryce Huebner

13. Taking and Making Refuge in Racial [Whiteness] Awareness and Racial Justice Work

Rhonda Magee

14. A Buddhist Phenomenology of the White Mind

Joy Brennan

15. The White Feminism in Rita Gross' Critique of Gender Identities and Reconstruction of Buddhism

Hsiao Lan Hu

Afterword

Charles Johnson