Washoe County Library System

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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
320.973 BAWER 2022
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Description

"Gender ideology. The “anti-racism” craze. The #MeToo movement. Sanctuary cities. These are among the building blocks of our new “woke” world, which, during the last few years, seemed to explode out of nowhere. But it didn’t emerge from nowhere. It originated on the campuses of some of our most respected colleges and universities. Over the past several decades, more and more faculty members at those institutions have exchanged humanism...

2) It lives inside

Publisher

Decal

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her East Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. However, when a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.

3) Wrong: how media, politics, and identity drive our appetite for misinformation

Author

Young, Dannagal G

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

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Description

"In this book, the author offers a new model that identifies social and cultural identity-who we are and who we want to be-as the most important factor driving the American phenomena of being wrong"-- "In this book, the author offers a new model that identifies social and cultural identity-who we are and who we want to be-as the most important factor driving the American pAn engaging look at how American politics and media reinforce partisan identity...

4) Religion as make-believe: a theory of belief, imagination, and group identity

Author

Van Leeuwen, Neil

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Description

"Drawing on a range of hard evidence, Neil Van Leeuwen shows that the psychological mechanisms underlying religious belief are the same as those enabling imaginative play. He argues that we should therefore understand religious belief as a form of make-believe that people use to define their group identity and express the values dearest to them."-- "To understand the nature of religious belief, we must look at how our minds process the world of imagination...

5) Imagine freedom: transforming pain into political and spiritual power

Author

Tesfamariam, Rahiel

Publisher

Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

[2024]

Language

English

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Description

''A social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to liberation and healing for people of African descent struggling in the shadows of the American Dream. The United States is at a critical juncture in its history. Not since the 1960s has the nation been so racially divided. White supremacy remains America's Achilles' heel��a moral...