Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
The Fragile Mind
Jarik E. Conrad · 2008
70/100
👍 Worth It
Conrad's blend of neuroscience, autobiography, and social analysis on race and systemic inequality is genuinely ambitious, and readers who engage with it report real shifts in how they understand unconscious bias — including their own. The topic is contested enough that readers looking for more traditional social science framing may wish for heavier scholarly apparatus. For college-educated general readers willing to sit with uncomfortable questions, it offers more insight than most books in this space.
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substance72
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originality70
accuracy65
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