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Black Cherokee : a novel / by Downing, Antonio Michael,1975-author.;
"Ophelia Blue Rivers is the specificity of her circumstance. She's not just mixed in American binary sense of being a racial amalgamation of two races; she's a trinity of the three distinct racial identities that make up the identity politics of this continent. She's Part Black, White, and Indigenous (Native American), raised by her grandmother who is a Black descendent of the Cherokee freedmen. A history as rich as it is complicated, Cherokee freedmen were formerly enslaved Africans once owned by Cherokee elites. After Emancipation as well as the Trail of Tears, these former slaves were freed but their belonging to the Cherokee nation remained a point of controversy. Can people who once belonged to another people who were displaced claim birthright to that heritage? A novel in contemporary 1990s South Carolina, Antonio Michael Downing uses Ophelia's search for home and family to dramatize what it means to belong to a people when the terms of that belonging come at such a high price."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Belonging (Social psychology); Families; Identity (Psychology); Multiracial people;

This is your brain on stereotypes : how science is tackling unconscious bias / by Kyi, Tanya Lloyd,1973-; Shannon, Drew,1988-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Explores how to recognize stereotypes, why they can be harmful and how to combat them.LSC
Subjects: Stereotypes (Social psychology); Discrimination; Prejudices;

Universal human : creating authentic power and the new consciousness / by Zukav, Gary,author.;
"The author of the legendary #1 New York Times bestseller The Seat of the Soul shows us step-by-fascinating-step how to create a life of love and where that now leads"--
Subjects: Choice (Psychology); Consciousness.; Control (Psychology); Creative ability.; Love.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Social change.;

Humanish : What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize. by Gregg, Justin.;
In 'Humanish', Justin Gregg takes readers on a journey through the science behind our peculiar tendency to humanize the nonhuman and the bizarre ways we engage in anthropomorphism. Prepare to be amazed as Gregg unveils a world filled with emotional support alligators, a woman who married her briefcase, and Soviet super babies that drink dolphin milk. Gregg lives in rural Nova Scotia. From the author of 'If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Evolutionary Psychology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social;

Deep cuts : a novel / by Brickley, Holly,author.;
"For anyone who loved High Fidelity and wants a woman's perspective on the early aughts music scene, Deep Cuts is both a love story between two people whose timing is always off, and a love letter to the thing that moves all of us-music"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Belonging (Social psychology); Composers; Man-woman relationships; Music;

Supplication : a novel / by Abi-Nakhoul, Nour,author.;
"A hallucinatory literary horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a changed and frightening world. Our protagonist wakes up in a basement, tied to a chair, with a man looming over her. But someone has a knife. We follow her as she emerges from captivity into an unnamed, nightmarish city, seeking some meaning to her new reality. As figures emerge from the night, some offer sanctuary, and others judgement, but she keeps moving, making her way through this fever dream of a narrative. SUPPLICATION is a haunting, embodied tale of displacement, fear, and the quest for respite."--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Alienation (Social psychology); Cities and towns; Fear; Women;

Rules of estrangement : why adult children cut ties and how to heal the conflict / by Coleman, Joshua,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to reestablish contact with their adult children"--
Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology); Parent and adult child.; Parents; Adult children; Interpersonal conflict.; Conflict management.;

Outrage machine : how tech amplifies discontent, disrupts democracy--and what we can do about it / by Rose-Stockwell, Tobias,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Over the last two decades, there has been an inescapable rise of anger and aggression across our planet. Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent online, Western governments are turning towards authoritarianism and populism, and extremist groups are rising across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful opinions, we're seeing more threats and frightening news, and we're reacting faster and less rationally. The cause is hidden in plain sight: for the first time, almost all of the information we consume as a species is being controlled and curated by algorithms designed to capture our emotional attention. This, media researcher and strategic advisor Tobias Rose-Stockwell argues, is the outrage machine. It is the wide-cast net of social media that is propelled by tech, has been exploited by all of us, and which has been allowed to steadily replace our newspapers, emergency communication systems, town halls, churches, and more. In the vein of The Righteous Mind and Factfulness, Outrage Machine is a big-think book that explores the unintended consequences of this alarming shift in today's smartphone era--and shows us how to navigate the world we now live in. First, he explains how and why we've become addicted to not just technology, but outrage itself. Since social media algorithms now favor the most inflammatory content because it gets the highest engagement, the levels of righteousness, certainty, and extreme judgment in our daily interactions have increased as well. Next, he shows us why we're more prone to panic, and how the immediate dispersion of our panic can be more dangerous than the threat itself-and can bypass necessary confirmation of the accuracy and potential harm of this information. Rose-Stockwell also explores how the original intent of many of our social tools has been compromised, from improving click-through rates for charitable causes to catalyzing our current culture of click-baiting and sensationalism on an unparalleled scale. Fortunately, Outrage Machine is not just a warning--it's also a critical guide that clearly explains the underlying machinery that has come to control us, and a compass to help guide people toward reflection rather than reaction. The culmination of 15 years of research and inquiry, this book gives readers a language with which to comprehend what is happening to society, and offers new mental models for how to manage our time, our technology, and our attention. It also offers big-picture recommendations for how to redesign these platforms, as well as methods for fixing this broken system before it "fixes" us"--
Subjects: Democracy.; Information society.; Social media; Social media.; Hate;

Entitled : how male privilege hurts women / by Manne, Kate,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called "jaw-droppingly brilliant." In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and "Cat Person" to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren, Manne shows how privileged men's sense of entitlement--to sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, medical care, bodily autonomy, knowledge, and power--is a pervasive social problem with often devastating consequences. In clear, lucid prose, she argues that male entitlement can explain a wide array of phenomena, from mansplaining and the undertreatment of women's pain to mass shootings by incels and the seemingly intractable notion that women are "unelectable." Moreover, Manne implicates each of us in toxic masculinity: It's not just a product of a few bad actors; it's something we all perpetuate, conditioned as we are by the social and cultural currents of our time. The only way to combat it, she says, is to expose the flaws in our default modes of thought, while enabling women to take up space, say their piece, and muster resistance to the entitled attitudes of the men around them. With wit and intellectual fierceness, Manne sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to our collective care and concern"--
Subjects: Entitlement attitudes.; Male domination (Social structure); Misogyny.; Privilege (Social psychology); Sex role.;

Why young men : rage, race, and the crisis of identity / by Jivani, Jamil,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Young men; Social integration.; Violence in men; Young men;

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