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“This is one of my favorite books ever, and it is pretty new. I don’t think we pay enough attention to the significance of religion in the construction of racial difference. That’s what Duncan Williams does in American Sutra. He highlights how Buddhist Japanese Americans had a pretty distinctive experience of being racialized and treated in a discriminatory way during the Second World War…We’re a country of religious freedom and religious pluralism, but we don’t have a great record of upholding our commitment to those principles in practice.” Read more...
