Series Four Volume 6

What Hope? Staying with the Trouble of America’s Racial Karma

Part of a special section on American Buddhism, Race, and Power. This article examines “America’s racial karma,” a concept coined by Larry Ward, to critique the temporal logic underpinning narratives of progress in the US. Drawing from Buddhist conceptions of karma, alongside queer theory, Black studies, and postcolonial critiques, I argue that America’s linear, future-oriented historical narrative functions as a…

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