"My Response to Racism is Anger": A "Mindful" Approach to Mindfulness.

The current political climate has revived mindfulness as a rhetoric to establish relationality between the self and the other at a time when concerns around racialized exclusion have exploded on the political horizon. By focusing on the call for papers for the 2018 WSCA conference, I track how the discipline has largely approached mindfulness as a deracialized (inter)subjective practice. In its place, I offer anger as theorized by Black lesbian feminist Audre Lorde as an articulation of mindfulness that is not only more in line with the original Buddhist conception of the term but also meets the demands of social justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]