All Mixed up: Multi/Racial Liberation and Compassion-Based Activism
This paper seeks to identify pathways of liberation amidst contemporary challenges faced by those who identify as multiracial by re-imagining various approaches to confronting racial oppression through compassion-based activism. The primary question of this study focuses on how compassion (as broadl...
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| description | This paper seeks to identify pathways of liberation amidst contemporary challenges faced by those who identify as multiracial by re-imagining various approaches to confronting racial oppression through compassion-based activism. The primary question of this study focuses on how compassion (as broadly understood by and across the world’s spiritual traditions) might sustain, invigorate, or be adapted to aid the struggle for racial justice in the United States. This paper begins with reviewing theories from critical mixed race studies and brings them into dialogue with the eight themes of compassion-based activism. The results of this interdisciplinary study provide both the promises and challenges to a compassion-based approach when it comes to multi/racial liberation and proposes a reinterpretation that centers multi/racial experiences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-47f18b9149a24ee89f9073cd7836cadf2023-11-20T09:13:49ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442020-08-0111840210.3390/rel11080402All Mixed up: Multi/Racial Liberation and Compassion-Based ActivismAizaiah Yong0Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709, USAThis paper seeks to identify pathways of liberation amidst contemporary challenges faced by those who identify as multiracial by re-imagining various approaches to confronting racial oppression through compassion-based activism. The primary question of this study focuses on how compassion (as broadly understood by and across the world’s spiritual traditions) might sustain, invigorate, or be adapted to aid the struggle for racial justice in the United States. This paper begins with reviewing theories from critical mixed race studies and brings them into dialogue with the eight themes of compassion-based activism. The results of this interdisciplinary study provide both the promises and challenges to a compassion-based approach when it comes to multi/racial liberation and proposes a reinterpretation that centers multi/racial experiences.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/8/402spiritual formationpractical theologycritical mixed race studies |
| spellingShingle | Aizaiah Yong All Mixed up: Multi/Racial Liberation and Compassion-Based Activism Religions spiritual formation practical theology critical mixed race studies |
| title | All Mixed up: Multi/Racial Liberation and Compassion-Based Activism |
| title_full | All Mixed up: Multi/Racial Liberation and Compassion-Based Activism |
| title_fullStr | All Mixed up: Multi/Racial Liberation and Compassion-Based Activism |
| title_full_unstemmed | All Mixed up: Multi/Racial Liberation and Compassion-Based Activism |
| title_short | All Mixed up: Multi/Racial Liberation and Compassion-Based Activism |
| title_sort | all mixed up multi racial liberation and compassion based activism |
| topic | spiritual formation practical theology critical mixed race studies |
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