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The Help

Kathryn Stockett

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

Daniel J. Siegel MD

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Sixth Extinction

Kolbert

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

James R. Doty MD

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50+ Essential Concepts Using R and Python

Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon and Richard Philcox

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Math Without Numbers

Milo Beckman

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living, 1)

Max Lugavere and Paul Grewal M.D.

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition

Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Wild Mushrooms and Other Fungi

DK

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

Terrence Real

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Machine Learning Design Patterns: Solutions to Common Challenges in Data Preparation, Model Building, and MLOps

Valliappa Lakshmanan , Sara Robinson, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

Kim John Payne, Arthur Morey, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Planets: The Definitive Visual Guide to Our Solar System

Robert Dinwiddie , Heather Couper, et al.

4.9 on Amazon

1 HN comments

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tajustice1onJuly 29, 2021

Like master-slave, the metaphorical use of white-black to connote good-evil is oppressive.

There is even a name for this pervasive language pitfall: the association of white with good and black with evil is known as the “bad is black effect” [Grewal].

Indeed, there is an entire book on the subject, written by renowned authority on race, Franz Fanon. In his book “Black Skin, White Masks,” Fanon makes several persuasive arguments that standard language encodes subconscious in-group, out-group preferences

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