How Biased Data Shapes Your Job, Your Health, and Your Life
by m. seenarine Xpyr Press. 2026. 219 pages ISBN: 978-1-7346514-9-2 Available on Amazon
When Maya’s job application is silently rejected, she isn't given an interview, a contact name, or an explanation. She is left staring at a gap on her résumé where she cared for her aging mother, a life reduced to a single row in a database, deemed a "poor match" by an automated gatekeeper.
In When AI Gets You Wrong, Dr. M. Seenarine delivers a clear-eyed, urgent examination of how automated systems, language models, and predictive algorithms shape the modern human experience. From automated hiring and clinical healthcare predictions to social media polarization and AI companions, artificial intelligence is increasingly used to judge our worth, allocate public resources, and decide who gets access to essential opportunities.
Through compelling real-world cases, rigorous analysis, and human-centered stories, Dr. Seenarine traces the journey of data across four critical stages:
- How the World Becomes Data: Why complex lives, employment gaps, and historical inequalities translate poorly into spreadsheets and web crawls.
- How Data Becomes Judgment: How shortcut learning, biased benchmark tests, instruction authority failures, and "hallucinations" convert incomplete evidence into automated authority.
- When Judgment Reaches You: The real-world consequences on employment, housing, healthcare, credit, and digital safety, and why those with the fewest resources bear the heaviest burden of machine error.
- What Better Would Require: Moving beyond technical "quick fixes" toward true contestability, data governance, and the fundamental right to question the machine.
When AI Gets You Wrong is an indispensable guide for anyone who has ever been categorized, scored, or turned away by a computer, and a vital call to action for building a future where technology serves human needs rather than automating historical injustice.
by m. seenarine Xpyr Press. 2026. 216 pages ISBN: 978-1-7346514-8-5 Available on Amazon
This book introduces AI bias through familiar experiences: social media feeds, college admissions, job applications, classroom tools, and image generators. It requires no coding or advanced mathematics. The book examines how bias enters AI systems, how it affects people, and what individuals, institutions, companies, and governments can do about it. It connects technical concepts with questions about identity, inequality, accountability, and democratic participation. Includes eighteen chapters, an introduction and conclusion, worked examples, discussion questions, classroom activities, a capstone project, glossary, and references.
Artificial Social Intelligence Making AI Socially Responsible
by m. seenarine Xpyr Press. 2026. 216 pages ISBN-10: 1734651466 Available on Amazon
An AI answer can sound neutral while carrying the assumptions of a biased record, a narrow source archive, or an institution that cannot be challenged. Who gets heard, and who bears the cost when the answer is wrong?
Artificial Social Intelligence: Making AI Socially Responsible examines how AI bias affects women and marginalized communities in employment, language technology, search, and everyday answers. Drawing on sociological theory and documented studies, the book follows bias from data collection through generation, institutional use, and repair. It also examines black boxes and the promise and limits of model cards, audits, standards, and regulation.
Five questions guide the reader: What can be known? Who is heard? What does the answer do? Who can decide? What happens after harm? Together, they offer a way to judge both the answer on the screen and the organizations behind it.
Written for students, educators, researchers, AI developers, and community advocates, this book makes the case for AI systems that can be questioned, corrected, and held responsible.
by m seenarine Xpyr Press. 2024. 307 pages. ISBN: 978-1-7346514-3-0 Available on Amazon
Summary
Conservative ideology in the United States has undergone a significant evolution since the nation's founding, becoming a defining force on the political landscape for decades. Rooted in core principles such as limited government, private ownership, individual liberty, and free-market capitalism, conservatism has been shaped by influential movements and figures like Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and the rise of the Tea Party. Understanding this historical context is crucial to grasping the modern right-wing agenda.
In recent years, Republicans have made notable gains in areas such as economic policy, social issues, immigration, environmental regulation, foreign policy, and judicial appointments. While right-wing ideology emphasizes values like limited government, its implementation can pose significant risks.
Liberal politics have also been pivotal in shaping the nation's trajectory. Grounded in the belief that government can and should be a force for good, progressive initiatives aim to tackle systemic inequalities and build a more inclusive and equitable society. This book explores the dynamic between conservative politics and liberal critiques across various domains, including the economy, social equality, democratic institutions, women's rights and health, immigration, the environment, and more.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Benefits of Liberal Politics - page 1
Chapter 2: Dangers of Right-Wing Politics - page 8
Chapter 3: Republican Economic Agenda - page 13
Chapter 4: Influence of Corporate Power - page 28
Chapter 5: Influence of Corporate Media - page 43
Chapter 6: Inequality & Homelessness - page 58
Chapter 7: Labor & Workers' Rights - page 76
Chapter 8: Republican Health Care - page 88
Chapter 9: Women's Reproductive Health - page 105
Chapter 10: Right-Wing Social Agenda - page 116
Chapter 11: 'War on Woke' - page 128
Chapter 12: Eurocentric Christian Nationalism - page 145
This book presents 50 biographies of radical women of color activists from over 25 countries and territories.
The book, Sista Resister: Bios of 50 Radical Women of Color Activists Resisting Sexism, Colonialism & Racism, introduce the biographies of women from over 25 countries and territories. This eclectic collection of biographies of female activists show that 'Third World' females are active on a wide range of issues, from women's and children's health, to housing and labor rights, the environment and climate change. The book is divided into two sections. Part I, on current sista resisters, chronicles the lives of 30 contemporary female activists, from Mexico to the Philippines. The 20 life stories in Part II, on foresisters of resistance, establish that women in the Global South were some of the earliest feminist thinkers and writers in the world. Each life story refutes the common misrepresentation of Indigenous, African, Asian, Latina, Muslim, Dalit and other females as docile creatures in need of Western rescue.
Contrary to their depiction in mainstream media as passive and docile, women in the 'Third World' were some of the first women's rightist activists. For instance, Fang Weiyi (1585 to 1668) and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648 to 1695) wrote about women's rights a century before Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 to 1797), whose essay, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792), is widely regarded as one of the first feminist text. And, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's (1880 to 1932) feminist science fiction novella, Sultana's Dream (1905), was written a decade before Charlotte Perkins Gilman's popular feminist utopian novel, Herland (1915). One of the main goals of this book is to amplify the voices of high-melanin female activists, and examples of their work are included in each portrait.
“Politics - the blind are showing movies/in the plaza/so the deaf are gathering/in the plaza/so the mute can debate/in the plaza/the fate/of one beloved nation.”
- Merlinda Bobis (born 1959) is a Philippine-Australian writer & academic.
Chapter 27. Haunani-Kay Trask (Hawaiʻi/US)
Introduction: Gynocentrism and Gift Economy
Among the Indigenous people of Turtle Island, corn was the staple crop, and the Green Corn Dance was celebrated from North to South America. This important dance varies by group, but the core is a commemoration of the gift of corn by an ancestral corn Goddess. This sacred gift was reciprocated among the people of many nations. In matrilineal cultures, corn was stored in large granaries and distributed equitably by the clan mothers, the oldest women from every extended family. Since Indigenous communities placed an emphasis on sharing and equity, inequality and stratification were far less of a problem than in Europe.
Gynocentric theorists link many forms of social oppression to male domination and the exchange economy. These feminists suggest that only by dismantling male rule and phallic supremacy will many of the social problems that plague our modern world be mitigated. In her fictional account of a mother-centered culture, “The World of the Gift Economy,” feminist scholar Genevieve Vaughan describes the characteristics of the maternal gift economy as "Giving rather than exchange in the way we transmit our goods." The female-centered system is based on unilateral giving, like the mothering of little children, who cannot give back an equivalent in exchange for what they receive from caregivers.
Gynocentric and matriarchal cultures focus on meeting the needs of its members, which establishes bonds of mutuality and trust between givers and receivers. For example, Vaughan writes, "Hums like to guess each other's needs, so it is not unusual if I need a new pair of shoes to find them on my doorstep without my even asking anyone." The relational economy helps the future society the author describes in “The World of the Gift Economy,” to overcome competition and violence so prevalent in male-dominated societies in each corner of the globe. She writes, "The elimination of Patriarchy and exchange everywhere has defused the emphasis on categorization and belonging to superior categories that was part of racism, classism and sexism."
Despite centuries of patriarchal colonization, it is remarkable that some gynocentric traditions remain, even in the colonized US, and other parts of Turtle Island. Many Indigenous survivors understand and write about the importance of maintaining female-centered ways of knowing and being, like gift-giving. First Nations female scholars also document the intersection of colonization, dispossession and racism on Turtle Island, and feminist, cultural, environmental and social justice activists could learn much from these women. A shining example of Indigenous female leadership is Haunani-Kay Trask of Hawaiʻi.
Haunani-Kay's Biography
Haunani-Kay Trask (born October 3rd 1949) is a Hawaiian nationalist, educator, political scientist and writer whose genealogy connects her to the Piʻilani line on her maternal side and the Kahakumakaliua line on her paternal side. The Hawaiian native grew up on the island of Oʻahu and continues to reside there. Known as "The Gathering Place", Oʻahu is the third-largest Hawaiian Island. The island has around one million people, about two-thirds of the state's population.
Haunani-Kay earned a BA, MA and PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She graduated in 1981, and her dissertation was published as Eros and Power: The Promise of Feminist Theory (1986). Trask is professor emeritus of the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and has represented Native Hawaiians at the UN and other global forums. Sista Trask is the author of two poetry books, Light in the Crevice Never Seen (1994) and Night Is a Sharkskin Drum (2002). And in addition to her thesis, Dr. Trask published the nonfiction, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii (1993).
Professor Trask co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary, Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation (2011). The scholar-activist also created an educational video on the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement, Haunani-Kay Trask: We Are Not Happy Natives (2002). In March 2017, Hawaiʻi Magazine recognized the Oʻahu native as one of the most influential women in Hawaiian history.
As an Indigenous feminist, Haunani-Kay opposes tourism to Hawaiʻi, as well as US military's presence on the islands. In a 2014 interview, the Oʻahu native explained how she got involved with anti-military activism in the Pacific,
I got involved with Kahoʻolawe and the whole archipelagic idea of bombing ranges when I came back from college [in the mid-1970s from the University of Wisconsin Madison]. My mother, who was very straight, said you better come home, these people are going out there [to Kaho‘olawe] and getting arrested, and some of them are dying. It sounds like something you’d like. So that’s how I got into it. I did come home, and I didn’t write my dissertation for two years because I was so engaged in this process.
More recently the professor has spoken against the Akaka Bill to establish a process for Native Hawaiians to gain federal recognition similar to the recognition that some Native American tribes currently possess. Advocates of Hawaiian sovereignty oppose the bill since it disregards the 1993 Public Law (103-150) in which the US Congress apologized "for the overthrow and the deprivation of the rights of Native Hawaiians to self-determination." Professor Trask exposes the Eurocentric settler bias and violence present in her native islands, writing,
The color of violence, then, is the color of white over black, white over brown, white over red, white over yellow. It is the violence of north over south, of continents over archipelagos, of settlers over natives and slaves.
The Hawaiian studies scholar explains further that melaninized subjugation in the island chain is inter-linked with other layers of oppression,
Shaping this color scheme are the labyrinths of class and gender, of geography and industry, of metropoles and peripheries, of sexual definitions and confinements. There is not just one binary opposition, but many oppositions.
Melaninized persecution is one form of patriarchal dualism among many. Intersectional oppression in Hawaiʻi is complicated and requires complex analysis and multi-disciplinary approaches. The political scientist describes different levels of violence inherent in the occupation of Indigenous lands by the most powerful nation in the Anglo-sphere,
Within colonialism, such as that now practiced in my own country of Hawai'i, violence against women of color, especially our Native women, is the economic and cultural violence of tourism and of militarism. It is the violence of our imprisonments: reservations, incarcerations, diasporas. It is the violence of military bases, of the largest porting of nuclear submarines in the world, of the inundation of our exquisite islands by eager settlers and tourists from the American and Asian continents.
Predatory capitalism is part of colonialism and racism, and this gets translated into the society, language and institutions of Eurocentric rule on Turtle Island. The Hawaiian nationalist describes this process with regards to culture,
Colonialism began with conquest and is today maintained by a settler administration created out of the doctrine of cultural hierarchy. It is a hierarchy in which Euro-Americans and whiteness dominate non-Euro-Americans and darkness.
Professor Trask contends that in a colonial country, there must be dominance and subordination, and low-melanin hegemony delineates this hierarchy in the US. Thus, the Indigenous political scientist argues,
white people are the dominant group, Christianity is the dominant religion, capitalism is the dominant economy, and militarism is the dominant form of diplomacy and the underlying force of international relations. Violence is thus normal, and race prejudice, like race violence, is as American as apple pie.
People of European descent are an elite minority in the islands. Low-melanin people comprise about 25 percent of the ethnically diverse state's 1.3 million residents, while those who identify as Native Hawaiian account for around 20 percent. Most residents are of mixed 'race,' so multi-racial people are the majority. The female Indigenous scholar explains how structural racism works in the US,
In a racist society, there is no need to justify white racist behavior. The naturalness of segregation and hierarchy is the naturalness of hearing English on the street, or seeing a McDonalds on every other corner, or assuming the U.S. dollar and United Airlines will enable a vacation in Hawai'i, my native country. Indeed, the natural, everyday presence of the "way things are" explains the strength and resilience of racism. Racism envelops us, intoxicating our thoughts, permeating our brains and skins, determining the shape of our growth and the longevity of our lives.
As an activist poet, Professor Trask employs the “art as an anvil” method in her writing style. Recognizing that Indigenous Hawaiians have been relegated to the margins of their society, the First Nations poet utilizes her words as weapons against the colonizing oppressors. An example of the art as anvil approach can be seen in the poem, "Racist White Woman," featured in her 1994 book, Light in the Crevice Never Seen:
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