Book Reviews

NeuroTribes takes readers on a journey through the history of autism from the turn of the 20th century. The determination to carve out all eccentricities—the very eccentricities that built the ship humanity stands on—faltered our course. Hence, the book departs from the port that pathologizes autis…

Prior to the advent of the brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably......

“There was a war going on in black and white America between Martin and Malcolm. Everyone was forced to choose sides, but I could not. They were like my left and right hands, both necessary for the full expression of my humanity and for my struggle to find my voice

Known as a founding father of postcolonial studies, I knew I had to pick up one of Frantz Fanon’s books. This man’s alive and commanding voice, along with the sheer rigor of his analysis, produces a kind of awakening in you. Colonialism is colonialism is colonialism. What has

“I can’t turn around without hearing about some ‘civil rights advance’! white people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting ‘hallelujah’! Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man’s back—and now the white man starts to wiggle

Pithy. Candid. A manifesto for post-colonial thinking. These are just a few of the words that come to mind after reading this book. Albert Memmi

Aping Mankind presents a powerful critique against the temptation to fuse scientific inquiry with overly simplistic and shallow isms. A neuro...

Cavanaugh hypothesizes that the myth of religious violence is not a baseless assertion but rather a powerful means by which Western secularism justifies its promotion of governance as synonymous with peacemaking. Thus, it becomes reasonable, if not necessary, to advocate for modern secular forms of…