Beyond Race: The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White

About the Book

“Beyond Race: The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White” is an indispensable aid for anyone seeking to transcend America’s oppressive race-consciousness. Each section of Beyond Race is fashioned after the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad-gita, the essence of India’s Vedic wisdom and one of the great spiritual and philosophical classics of the world.

Along with synopses of each Gita chapter, Beyond Race includes commentary culled from Mr. Byrd’s 1995-2001 Interracial Voice editorials. During or after each chapter’s “race” commentary, is included a specific Gita verse for the purpose of expanding on that commentary from the Vedic perspective.

About the Author

Charles Michael Byrd was born in 1952 in Abingdon, Virginia and is of “black,” “white” and Cherokee heritage. He is currently the Editor/Publisher of Interracial Voice, an Internet newsjournal serving the multiracial community in cyberspace. Among numerous media credits, he has appeared on Jim Lehrer’s “NewsHour” and has written Op-Eds for the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday. A student of Vedic scriptures, Mr. Byrd believes that individuals of mixed racial backgrounds quickly begin searching for a higher spiritual truth, something that allows them to make sense of the madness behind lumping human beings into separate and distinct “racial” groupings.