Hardcover, 426 pages *Published: November 13th 2018 by Crown * Original Title: Becoming * Edition Language: English URL: https://BecomingMichelleObama.com/ I’ve had a copy of Michelle Obama’s book since a day or two after Christmas 2018. Someone made an out-of-the-blue purchase after watching me pour through its pages for a couple of hours at an…
Category: Diversity
White Identity Politics – Ashley Jardina
Published: February 20th 2019 Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108651984 (ISBN13: 9781108651981) The Ontario NDPs held their first Black Caucus meeting on a summer evening mid-August 2019. The meeting was well attended allowing for a variety of voices, that aren’t usually heard, an opportunity to say what’s on their mind and offer ideas to the…
Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff (1/3)
Surveillance Capitalism – Definition: A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; A parasitic economic logic in which the production…
Identity Leadership – Graham Steadman
Hardcover: 272 pages * Published: May 7th 2019 * Publisher: Center Street * ISBN: 1546083375 (ISBN13: 9781546083375) Ahmed El Hady, Big Think: “In our neuro-centric world-view, a person is equated to his brain. The neuro-discourse has penetrated all aspects of our lives from law to politics to literature to medicine to physics. As part of…
Why the Jews? – Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
Paperback, 272 pages Published: August 12th 2003 by Touchstone (first published June 1st 1983) ISBN: 0743246209 (ISBN13: 9780743246200) Edition Language: English I don’t know about you but I’m a little worried about the upcoming elections for a variety of reasons and I am sure many feel the same. The 2015 federal election fell on my birthday. This year…
Ladies Up Stairs! My Life in Politics – Monique Begin
Hardcover, 540 pages Published: December 21st 2018 Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press ISBN: 0773555226 (ISBN13: 9780773555228) In January 1973, Monique Bégin was among the newly elected MPs rushing into the House of Commons for the opening of Parliament, when she was stopped at the doors by a Security Commissioner. Bégin was entering Parliament as one of the first three…
Untie the Strong Woman!!! (Pt1)
Go To: Untie the Strong Woman!! – Part II Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estes Ph.D , Publisher: Sounds True, 2013, Paperback : 392 pages, ISBN-10 : 1622030729, ISBN-13 : 978-1622030729 International Women’s Day 2018 The International Women’s Day website informs its readers; “With the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Report findings telling us that gender parity is over…
Ender’s Game: Prosocial Gaming (Part III)
Go to: Part I – Video Game Compulsion, Part II – Social Conditioning, Remember the games you used to play growing up? They seemed so innocent and fun and then social politics gradually come into play and competition is heightened, soon enough you’re left wondering if you’re still playing the same innocent game. That’s because…
Pillars of Democracy – Representation
To celebrate its 25th-anniversary CPAC launched a four-part documentary series calledthe Four Pillars of Democracy: Justice, Freedom, Equality, and Representation which highlights four democratic events that have shaped our social and political landscape. Imagine, if you will, these four pillars are actually four legs to a dinner table that holds a feast of the various…
