Mindfulness and Compassion in Response to Racism
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| Title: | Mindfulness and Compassion in Response to Racism |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Rose Mina Munjee, Seonaigh MacPherson (ORCID |
| Source: | Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education. 2025 19(2):91-107. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 17 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Metacognition, Altruism, Resistance (Psychology), Racism, Experience, Minority Group Teachers, White Teachers, Trauma, Racial Identification, Motivation, Power Structure, Disadvantaged, Professional Autonomy, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Isolation, Racial Factors, Foreign Countries |
| Geographic Terms: | Canada |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15595692.2023.2254873 |
| ISSN: | 1559-5692 1559-5706 |
| Abstract: | This research considers the impacts of racism on the experiences of racialized people, and how mindfulness and compassion might serve as resources for their recovery and resistance. Applying ecological theories of mind and critical phenomenology, the study presents the self-reported experiences of 30 adults organized into five focus groups of practitioners and teachers of mindfulness and compassion, with four affinity groups (Indigenous, Black, South Asian, and E./S.E. Asian) and one contrastive White group. Resulting data were clustered under seven salient topics: identity, racism, oppression, trauma, motivation, mindfulness, and compassion. Participants described mindfulness and compassion as impactful in their responses to, and recovery from, racism through identity (authenticity and belonging), the unlearning of internalized oppression, empowerment (cultural reinvigoration), and social change, with compassion contributing to reversing of self-coldness and opening to reconciliation. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1466774 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This research considers the impacts of racism on the experiences of racialized people, and how mindfulness and compassion might serve as resources for their recovery and resistance. Applying ecological theories of mind and critical phenomenology, the study presents the self-reported experiences of 30 adults organized into five focus groups of practitioners and teachers of mindfulness and compassion, with four affinity groups (Indigenous, Black, South Asian, and E./S.E. Asian) and one contrastive White group. Resulting data were clustered under seven salient topics: identity, racism, oppression, trauma, motivation, mindfulness, and compassion. Participants described mindfulness and compassion as impactful in their responses to, and recovery from, racism through identity (authenticity and belonging), the unlearning of internalized oppression, empowerment (cultural reinvigoration), and social change, with compassion contributing to reversing of self-coldness and opening to reconciliation. |
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| ISSN: | 1559-5692 1559-5706 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15595692.2023.2254873 |
