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Brahmans or even rebels, among others – who seek to purify the tradition and rid it of the foreign, superstitious, heterodox or other circulatory phenomena. But
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Credentials and money are not antidotes to the lingering effects of childhood maltreatment.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
To understand race relations today, we must push against our conditioning and grapple with how and why racial group memberships matter.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
However, he set a dangerous example by identifying the main problem as Black people not living up to White middle-class ideals. This is a mold that researchers of Black people and cities willfully maintain to this day. One of the major goals of this book is to show that there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can’t solve.
Andre M. Perry • Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter took on all these issues with a sense of compassion in their respective books. Sowell’s The Intellectuals and Race is a relentless dissection of how leftists try to reconstruct racial realities to further their agenda. McWhorter’s Losing the Race is a scathing—though empathetic—attack on contemporary black anti-inte
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
a belief
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
the people adopted just enough of the majority stance to be seen as acceptable members of the town.
Todd Rose • Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
Epistemic exploitation was coined by Nora Berenstain in 2016, for instance, to describe the injustice caused when marginalized people are expected to share their knowledge.