29 Best Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science Books
Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science audiobooks below.
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Freeing David McCallum
- By: Ken Klonsky
- Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.75(12 ratings)
4.75(12 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn April 2014, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and freed two months later, after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how Carter and his friend andIn April 2014, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and freed two months later, after serving twenty-nine years in prison.
This is the story of how Carter and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky worked for ten years to help free the wrongfully convicted McCallum, along with a group of committed friends and professionals. It details their struggles from founding an innocence project to take on the case, to finding lawyers willing to work pro bono, to hiring a private detective to sift through old evidence and locate original witnesses, and the most difficult part, convincing members of a deeply flawed criminal justice system to reopen a case that would expose their own mistakes when all they wanted to do was ignore the conflicting evidence. Finally it took a new district attorney, a documentary film, and an op-ed piece written by Carter on his death bed published in the New York Daily News that made a plea for McCallum’s release and turned the tide of justice. Freeing David McCallum tells a tale of frustration, agony, and undying hope, and the miracle that resulted in David’s release.
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Torn Apart
- By: Dorothy Roberts
- Narrator: Dorothy Roberts
- Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.61(172 ratings)
4.61(172 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDAn award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punishAn award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change
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Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a “family policing system” that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.
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We Speak for Ourselves
- By: D. Watkins
- Narrator: D. Watkins
- Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.5(400 ratings)
4.5(400 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society.From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening, the pages of We Speak for Ourselves “are abundant with wisdom and wit; integrity and love, not to mention enough laughs for a stand-up comedy routine” (Mitchell S. Jackson, author of Survival Math).
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Watkins introduces you to Down Bottom, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods–“hoods” that could just as easily be in Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, or Atlanta. As Watkins sees it, the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race.
Unapologetic and sharp-witted, D. Watkins is here to tell the truth as he has seen it. We Speak for Ourselves offers an in-depth analysis of inner-city hurdles and honors the stories therein. We sit in underfunded schools, walk the blocks burdened with police corruption, stand within an audience of Make America Great Again hats, journey from trap house to university lecture, and rally in neglected streets. And we listen.
“Watkins has come to remind us, everyone deserves the opportunity to speak for themselves” (Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author) and serves hope to fellow Americans who are too often ignored and calling on others to examine what it means to be a model activist in today’s world. We Speak for Ourselves is a must-read for all who are committed to social change. -
First, They Erased Our Name
- By: Habiburahman
- Narrator: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.5(295 ratings)
4.5(295 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USD“I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old, and I don’t yet know that I am stateless.” Habiburahman was born“I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old, and I don’t yet know that I am stateless.”
Habiburahman was born in 1979 and raised in a small village in western Burma. When he was three years old, the country’s military leader declared that his people, the Rohingya, were not one of the 135 recognized ethnic groups that formed the eight “national races.” He was left stateless in his own country.
Since 1982, millions of Rohingya have had to flee their homes as a result of extreme prejudice and persecution. In 2016 and 2017, the government intensified the process of ethnic cleansing, and over 700,000 Rohingya people were forced to cross the border into Bangladesh.
Here, for the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the truth behind this global humanitarian crisis. Through the eyes of a child, we learn about the historic persecution of the Rohingya people and witness the violence Habiburahman endured throughout his life until he escaped the country in 2000.
First, They Erased Our Name is an urgent, moving memoir about what it feels like to be repressed in one’s own country and a refugee in others. It gives voice to the voiceless.
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Discrimination and Disparities
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.48(3201 ratings)
4.48(3201 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAn empirical examination of how economic and other disparities arise Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with lessAn empirical examination of how economic and other disparities arise
Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics. Others believe that those who are less fortunate are victims of the more fortunate.
Discrimination and Disparities gathers a wide array of empirical evidence to challenge the idea that different economic outcomes can be explained by any one factor, whether it be discrimination, exploitation, or genetics.
It is readable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideological spectrum.
The point of Discrimination and Disparities is not to recommend some particular policy “fix” at the end but to clarify why so many policy fixes have turned out to be counterproductive–and to expose some seemingly invincible fallacies behind many counterproductive policies.
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No Justice in the Shadows
- By: Alina Das
- Narrator: Alina Das
- Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 14, 2020
- Language: English
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4.44(50 ratings)
4.44(50 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThis provocative account of our immigration system’s long, racist history reveals how it has become the brutal machine that upends the lives of millions of immigrants today.Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people areThis provocative account of our immigration system’s long, racist history reveals how it has become the brutal machine that upends the lives of millions of immigrants today.... Read moreEach year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and deported, trapped in what leading immigrant rights activist and lawyer Alina Das calls the “deportation machine.” The bulk of the arrests target people who have a criminal record — so-called “criminal aliens” — the majority of whose offenses are immigration-, drug-, or traffic-related. These individuals are uprooted and banished from their homes, their families, and their communities.Through the stories of those caught in the system, Das traces the ugly history of immigration policy to explain how the U.S. constructed the idea of the “criminal alien,” effectively dividing immigrants into the categories “good” and “bad,” “deserving” and “undeserving.” As Das argues, we need to confront the cruelty of the machine so that we can build an inclusive immigration policy premised on human dignity and break the cycle once and for all. -
A Dream Too Big
- By: Caylin Louis Moore
- Narrator: Caylin Louis Moore
- Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: June 04, 2019
- Language: English
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4.43(200 ratings)
4.43(200 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDIn this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academic success at the University of Oxford, with hopeIn this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academic success at the University of Oxford, with hope as his compass.
A Dream to Big is for readers who want to …
- enjoy a compelling, true, hard-to-believe inspirational story;
- thoughtfully embrace a long-overdue conversation about equality and justice in America; and
- be inspired and find hope from a firsthand account of redemption through even the most painful life experiences.
When Caylin Louis Moore was a young child, his mother gathered her three young children and fled an abusive marriage, landing in poverty in a heavily policed, gang-ridden community. When Moore’s mother suffered from health complications and a devastating experience in the hospital and his father was sentenced to life imprisonment, Moore was forced to enter adulthood prematurely. His hope was fueled by embracing his mother’s steely faith in a brighter future. Moore skirted the gangs, the police, and the violence endemic to Compton to excel as a student and athlete, eventually reaching the pinnacles of academic achievement as a Rhodes Scholar. Moore’s eye-opening, against-all-odds story reveals that there is no such thing as a dream too big.
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The False Cause
- By: Adam H. Domby
- Narrator: Jack de Golia
- Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.37(114 ratings)
4.37(114 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA fascinating, original, and highly readable book that makes a meaningful contribution to understanding the Lost Cause and Civil War memory The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century inA fascinating, original, and highly readable book that makes a meaningful contribution to understanding the Lost Cause and Civil War memory
The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century in essence sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate slavery as a heroic defense of the South. As Adam Domby reveals here, this was not only an insidious goal but it was founded on falsehoods.
The False Cause focuses on North Carolina to examine the role of lies and exaggeration in the creation of the Lost Cause narrative. In the process the book shows how these lies have long obscured the past and have been used to buttress white supremacy in ways that resonate to this day.
Domby explores how fabricated narratives about the war’s cause, Reconstruction, and slavery–as expounded at monument dedications and political rallies–were crucial to Jim Crow. He questions the persistent myth of the Confederate army as one of history’s greatest, revealing a convenient disregard of deserters, dissent, and Unionism and exposes how pension fraud facilitated a myth of unwavering support of the Confederacy among nearly all white Southerners.
Domby shows how the dubious concept of “Black Confederates” was spun from a small number of elderly and indigent African American North Carolinians who got pensions by presenting themselves as “loyal slaves.”
The book concludes with a penetrating examination of how the Lost Cause narrative and the lies on which it is based continue to haunt the country today and still work to maintain racial inequality.
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You Sound Like a White Girl
- By: Julissa Arce
- Narrator: Julissa Arce
- Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 22, 2022
- Language: English
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4.36(1493 ratings)
4.36(1493 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThis program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation with the author and Paola Ramos, a Vice News journalist, MSNBC Contributor, and author of Finding Latinx.“A love letter to our people–full of fury andThis program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation with the author and Paola Ramos, a Vice News journalist, MSNBC Contributor, and author of Finding Latinx.
“A love letter to our people–full of fury and passion.”
— Jose Olivarez, award-winning poet and author of Citizen Illegal“If you could take Rodolfo Gonzales epic poem ‘I Am Joaquin’ and explain it through compelling, personal narrative in twenty-first century America, You Sound Like A White Girl would be it.”
— Joaquin Castro
Bestselling author Julissa Arce brings readers a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America. Instead, she calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans.“You sound like a white girl.” These were the words spoken to Julissa by a high school crush as she struggled to find her place in America. As a brown immigrant from Mexico, assimilation had been demanded of her since the moment she set foot in San Antonio, Texas, in 1994. She’d spent so much time getting rid of her accent so no one could tell English was her second language that in that moment she felt those words–you sound like a white girl?–were a compliment. As a child, she didn’t yet understand that assimilating to “American” culture really meant imitating “white” America–that sounding like a white girl was a racist idea meant to tame her, change her, and make her small. She ran the race, completing each stage, but never quite fit in, until she stopped running altogether.
In this dual polemic and manifesto, Julissa dives into and tears apart the lie that assimilation leads to belonging. She combs through history and her own story to break down this myth, arguing that assimilation is a moving finish line designed to keep Black and brown Americans and immigrants chasing racist American ideals. She talks about the Lie of Success, the Lie of Legality, the Lie of Whiteness, and the Lie of English–each promising that if you obtain these things, you will reach acceptance and won’t be an outsider anymore. Julissa deftly argues that these demands leave her and those like her in a purgatory–neither able to secure the power and belonging within whiteness nor find it in the community and cultures whiteness demands immigrants and people of color leave behind.
In You Sound Like a White Girl, Julissa offers a bold new promise: Belonging only comes through celebrating yourself, your history, your culture, and everything that makes you uniquely you. Only in turning away from the white gaze can we truly make America beautiful. An America where difference is celebrated, heritage is shared and embraced, and belonging is for everyone. Through unearthing veiled history and reclaiming her own identity, Julissa shows us how to do this.
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Intellectuals and Race
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.36(1486 ratings)
4.36(1486 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIntellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense–one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly newIntellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense–one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.
Intellectuals have played a major role in racial issues throughout the centuries. Though their individual views may differ, as a whole their views tend to group, and just over the course of the twentieth century, they have shifted from one end of the spectrum to the other. Surprisingly, these radically different views of race were held by intellectuals whose views on other issues were often very similar.
Intellectuals and Race is not, however, a book about history, even though it has much historical evidence, as well as demographic, geographic, and economic evidence–all of it directed toward testing the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed at times among intellectuals in general, and especially at their highest levels. Nor is this simply a theoretical exercise. Sowell’s ultimate concern is the impact of intellectual movements on the larger society, both past and present. These ideas and crusades have ranged widely from racial theories of intelligence to eugenics to “social justice” and multiculturalism.
In addition to in-depth examinations of these and other issues, Intellectuals and Race explores the incentives, the visions, and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups but for societies as a whole.
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Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love
- By: Thomas A. Tarrants
- Narrator: Thomas A. Tarrants
- Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: August 06, 2019
- Language: English
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4.32(251 ratings)
4.32(251 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USD“Riveting, inspiring, at times hard to believe but utterly true…it gives some measure of hope in these rancorous times.” — John Grisham How a bomb-making white supremacist, once called “the most dangerous man in“Riveting, inspiring, at times hard to believe but utterly true…it gives some measure of hope in these rancorous times.” — John Grisham
How a bomb-making white supremacist, once called “the most dangerous man in Mississippi,” met Jesus in prison and emerged a committed advocate for Christian discipleship, peace, and racial justice.
As an ordinary high school student in the 1960s, Tom Tarrants became deeply unsettled by the social upheaval of the era. In response, he turned for answers to extremist ideology and was soon utterly radicalized. Before long, he became involved in the reign of terror spread by Mississippi’s dreaded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, described by the FBI as the most violent right-wing terrorist organization in America.
In 1969, while attempting to bomb the home of a Jewish leader in Meridian, Mississippi, Tom was ambushed by law enforcement and shot multiple times during a high-speed chase. Nearly dead from his wounds, he was arrested and sentenced to thirty years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm. Unrepentant, Tom and two other inmates made a daring escape from Parchman yet were tracked down by an FBI SWAT team and apprehended in hail of bullets that killed one of the convicts. Tom spent the next three years alone in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell. There he began a search for truth that led him to the Bible and a reading of the gospels, resulting in his conversion to Jesus Christ and liberation from the grip of racial hatred and violence.
Astounded by the change in Tom, many of the very people who worked to put him behind bars began advocating for his release. After serving eight years of a 35-year sentence, Tom left prison. He attended college, moved to Washington, DC, and became copastor of a racially mixed church. He went on to earn a doctorate and became the president of the C. S. Lewis Institute, where he devoted himself to helping others become wholehearted followers of Jesus.
A dramatic story of radical transformation, Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love demonstrates that hope is not lost even in the most tumultuous of times, even those similar to our own.
“As a kid in Mississippi in the late 1960’s, I remember the men of our church discussing the Klan’s bombing campaign against the Jews. The men did not disapprove. Later, I would use this fascinating chapter of civil rights history as the backdrop for my novel The Chamber. Now, one of the bombers, Thomas Tarrants, tells the real story in this remarkable memoir. It is riveting, inspiring, at times hard to believe but utterly true, and it gives some measure of hope in these rancorous times.” –John Grisham
“Dramatic…Simply astonishing…Essentia for these times. If you want to understand how the evil of extremist thought works–and how the gospel of God’s grace can overcome it–listen to this book.” –Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker, lead pastor of National Community Church
“Amazing…Gives hope for what God can do.” –Dr. John Perkins, president emeritus, John Perkins Foundation; co-founder emeritus, Christian Community Development Association
“This gripping and inspiring story is as timely as today’s headlines….Put on your seatbelt and prepare to enter into one of the most extraordinary true stories you’ll ever encounter!” –Lee Strobel, best-selling author of The Case for Christ and The Case for Grace
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White Guilt
- By: Shelby Steele
- Narrator: JD Jackson
- Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 23, 2021
- Language: English
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4.3(1469 ratings)
4.3(1469 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.99 USD“Not unlike some of Ralph Ellison’s or Richard Wright’s best work. White Guilt, a serious meditation on vital issues, deserves a wide readership.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black“Not unlike some of Ralph Ellison’s or Richard Wright’s best work. White Guilt, a serious meditation on vital issues, deserves a wide readership.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused murderer O. J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt–and neither has been good for African Americans.
Through articulate analysis and engrossing recollections, acclaimed race relations scholar Shelby Steele sounds a powerful call for a new culture of personal responsibility.
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The Viral Underclass
- By: Steven W. Thrasher
- Narrator: Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl
- Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 02, 2022
- Language: English
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4.24(425 ratings)
4.24(425 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThis program is read by the author with a foreword written and read by Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl.“An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class…readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddledThis program is read by the author with a foreword written and read by Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl.
“An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class…readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world.”
–Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society.Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone.
Told through the heart-rending stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus, HIV, and other viruses, Dr. Thrasher brings the listener with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings. In the tradition of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste and Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, The Viral Underclass helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival.
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.
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Halfway Home
- By: Reuben Jonathan Miller
- Narrator: Cary Hite
- Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.22(715 ratings)
4.22(715 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA “persuasive and essential” (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller’s “stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation’s carceral system”A “persuasive and essential” (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller’s “stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation’s carceral system” (Heather Ann Thompson).
Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record.
Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America’s most nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast.
As The Color of Law exposed about our understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they’ve paid their debt to society.
Informed by Miller’s experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy. As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens.
PEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist
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Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
2022 PROSE Awards Finalist
2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
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We Matter
- By: Etan Thomas
- Narrator: Etan Thomas
- Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 06, 2018
- Language: English
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4.21(49 ratings)
4.21(49 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFeaturing interviews by former NBA player Etan Thomas with over fifty athletes, executives, media figures, and more–and interwoven with essays and critiques by Thomas–We Matter shares the personal tales and opinions of KareemFeaturing interviews by former NBA player Etan Thomas with over fifty athletes, executives, media figures, and more–and interwoven with essays and critiques by Thomas–We Matter shares the personal tales and opinions of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Dwyane Wade, Russell Westbrook, Steve Kerr, Oscar Robertson, Mark Cuban, Michael Bennett, Carmelo Anthony, Derrick Rose, Swin Cash, Alonzo Mourning, Chris Webber, Jemele Hill, Anquan Boldin, Jamal Crawford, Juwan Howard, Ray Jackson, Shannon Sharpe, James Blake, John Carlos, Laila Ali, Michael Eric Dyson, Joakim Noah, Eric Reid, Adam Silver, Soledad O’Brien, John Wall, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Bradley Beal, Tamika Catchings, Curtis Conway, Harry Edwards, Chris Hayes, Chamique Holdsclaw, Scoop Jackson, Bomani Johnes, Shaun King, Jimmy King, Ted Leonsis, Thabo Sefolosha, Ilyasah Shabazz, Torrey Smith, Kenny Smith, Michael Smith, David West, Michael Wilbon, Jahvaris Fulton (brother of Trayvon Martin), Emerald Snipes (daughter of Eric Garner), Allysza Castile (sister of Philando Castile), Valerie Castile (mother of Philando Castile), and Dr. Tiffany Crutcher (sister of Terence Crutcher). This volume will be an inspiration for many different people: sports junkies; young readers who need words of encouragement from their favorite athletes; parents seeking positive messages for their children; activists who want to hear athletes using their voices to address social justice; and schools that need motivational material for their students.
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Long Time Coming
- By: Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrator: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: December 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.19(1059 ratings)
4.19(1059 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“As a narrator, the reverence and tenderness Dyson communicates in his letters–addressed to victims of racist violence Elijah McClain, Emmett Till, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandra Bland, and the Rev. Clementa“As a narrator, the reverence and tenderness Dyson communicates in his letters–addressed to victims of racist violence Elijah McClain, Emmett Till, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandra Bland, and the Rev. Clementa Pinckney–invoke the experience of listening in on a holy epistle. Don’t miss this.” — AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by Michael Eric Dyson.From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption.
The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties. While Floyd’s death was certainly the catalyst, (heightened by the fact that it occurred during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color) it was in truth the fuse that lit an ever-filling powder keg.
Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five beautifully argued chapters–each addressed to a black martyr from Breonna Taylor to Rev. Clementa Pinckney–Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life–and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Ending with a poignant plea for hope, Dyson’s exciting new book points the way to social redemption. Long Time Coming is a necessary guide to help America finally reckon with race.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
“Antiracist demonstrations have been like love notes to the martyrs of racist terror and anti-Blackness. Michael Eric Dyson writes out these love notes in this powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening book. Long Time Coming is right on time.” –Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist
“Crushingly powerful, Long Time Coming is an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain.” –Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Michael Eric Dyson is one of the nation’s most thoughtful and critical thinkers in social inequality and the demands of justice. Long Time Coming, his latest formidable, compelling book, has much to offer on our nation’s crucial need for racial reckoning and the way forward.” —Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy
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White Kids
- By: Margaret A. Hagerman
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.15(901 ratings)
4.15(901 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDRiveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion.Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race
American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence. In fascinating detail, Hagerman considers the role that they and their families play in the reproduction of racism and racial inequality in America.
White Kids, based on two years of research involving in-depth interviews with white kids and their families, is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking account of how white kids learn about race. In doing so, this book explores questions such as, “How do white kids learn about race when they grow up in families that do not talk openly about race or acknowledge its impact?” and “What about children growing up in families with parents who consider themselves to be ‘anti-racist’?”
Featuring the actual voices of young, affluent white kids and what they think about race, racism, inequality, and privilege, White Kids illuminates how white racial socialization is much more dynamic, complex, and varied than previously recognized. It is a process that stretches beyond white parents’ explicit conversations with their white children and includes not only the choices parents make about neighborhoods, schools, peer groups, extracurricular activities, and media, but also the choices made by the kids themselves. By interviewing kids who are growing up in different racial contexts–from racially segregated to meaningfully integrated and from politically progressive to conservative–this important book documents key differences in the outcomes of white racial socialization across families. And by observing families in their everyday lives, this book explores the extent to which white families, even those with anti-racist intentions, reproduce and reinforce the forms of inequality they say they reject.
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White Hot Hate
- By: Dick Lehr
- Narrator: Kellen Boyle
- Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.1(546 ratings)
4.1(546 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDFor fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debatesFor fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it.
In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town’s growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly wasn’t enough. The men plotted to bomb a mosque, aiming to kill hundreds and inspire other attacks against Muslims in America. But they would wait until after the presidential election, so that their actions wouldn’t hurt Donald Trump’s chances of winning.
An FBI informant befriended the three men, acting as law enforcement’s eyes and ears for eight months. His secretly taped conversations with the militia were pivotal in obstructing their plans and were a lynchpin in the resulting trial and convictions for conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.
White Hot Hate will tell the riveting true story of an averted case of domestic terrorism in one of the most remote towns in the US, not far from the infamous town where Capote’s In Cold Blood was set. In the gripping details of this foiled scheme, we see in intimate focus the chilling, immediate threat of domestic terrorism—and racist anxiety in America writ large.
 
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Elite Capture
- By: Olufemi O. Taiwo
- Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smth
- Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.09(837 ratings)
4.09(837 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDA powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends “Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But theA powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends
“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But the “identity politics” so compulsively referenced bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, “identity politics” is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests.
But the trouble, Olufemi O. Taiwo deftly argues, is not with “identity politics” itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition, Taiwo identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and become the victim of elite capture–deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests.
Taiwo’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of “class” vs. “race.” By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.
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A More Perfect Reunion
- By: Calvin Baker
- Narrator: Landon Woodson
- Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 30, 2020
- Language: English
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4.05(86 ratings)
4.05(86 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy. Americans have prided ourselves on how far we’ve come from slavery,A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy.
Americans have prided ourselves on how far we’ve come from slavery, lynching, and legal segregation-measuring ourselves by incremental progress instead of by how far we have to go. But fifty years after the last meaningful effort toward civil rights, the US remains overwhelmingly segregated and unjust. Our current solutions — diversity, representation, and desegregation — are not enough.
As acclaimed writer Calvin Baker argues in this bracing, necessary book, we first need to envision a society no longer defined by the structures of race in order to create one. The only meaningful remedy is integration: the full self-determination and participation of all African-Americans, and all other oppressed groups, in every facet of national life. This is the deepest threat to the racial order and the real goal of civil rights.
At once a profound, masterful reading of US history from the colonial era forward and a trenchant critique of the obstacles in our current political and cultural moment, A More Perfect Reunion is also a call to action. As Baker reminds us, we live in a revolutionary democracy. We are one of the best-positioned generations in history to finish that revolution.
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Skin Deep
- By: Gavin Evans
- Narrator: Pete Cross
- Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 27, 2019
- Language: English
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3.98(41 ratings)
3.98(41 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn academic journals and on internet message boards, certain scientists and thinkers are laying siege to one of the great taboos. Could it be, they ask, that racism has a rational basis in science? These ideas are no longer limited to the fringe:In academic journals and on internet message boards, certain scientists and thinkers are laying siege to one of the great taboos. Could it be, they ask, that racism has a rational basis in science? These ideas are no longer limited to the fringe: race-based studies of intelligence have been discussed by thinkers such as Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, and Jordan Peterson. If true, it would provide an intellectual foundation for so many of the attitudes that characterize the right wing, justifying inequality and discrimination. Gavin Evans tackles the nature versus nurture debate head-on, examining the latest studies on how intelligence develops and laying out new discoveries in genetics, paleontology, archaeology, and anthropology to unearth the truth about our shared past. In doing so, Skin Deep demolishes the pernicious myth that our race is our destiny and instead reveals what really makes us who we are.
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White American Youth
- By: Christian Picciolini
- Narrator: Christian Picciolini
- Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 26, 2017
- Language: English
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3.97(948 ratings)
3.97(948 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDAs featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist. Raw,As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.
Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose themselves in a culture of hatred and violence and how the criminal networks they forge terrorize and divide our nation. The story begins when Picciolini found himself stumbling through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music. There, he was recruited by a notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to “protect the white race from extinction.” Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was sent to prison, sixteen-year-old Picciolini took over the man’s role as the leader of an infamous neo-Nazi skinhead group.
Seduced by the power he accrued through intimidation, and swept up in the rhetoric he had adopted, Picciolini worked to grow an army of extremists. He used music as a recruitment tool, launching his own propaganda band that performed at white power rallies around the world. But slowly, as he started a family of his own and a job that for the first time brought him face to face with people from all walks of life, he began to recognize the cracks in his hateful ideology. Then a shocking loss at the hands of racial violence changed his life forever, and Picciolini realized too late the full extent of the harm he’d caused.
“Simultaneously horrifying and redemptive” (AlterNet), White American Youth examines how radicalism and racism can conquer a person’s way of life and how we can work together to stop those ideologies from tearing our world apart.
*An earlier edition of this book was published as Romantic Violence
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The Black Presidency
- By: Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrator: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 02, 2016
- Language: English
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3.95(488 ratings)
3.95(488 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA provocative, lively deep-dive into the meaning of America’s first black president and first black presidency, from “one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today” (Vanity Fair) -
Mother of Invention
- By: Katrine Marcal
- Narrator: Beth Hicks
- Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.91(451 ratings)
3.91(451 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDAn illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias skews innovation, technology, history, and work, by Swedish journalist Katrine Marcal It all starts with a rolling suitcase. The wheel was invented some five thousand years ago and theAn illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias skews innovation, technology, history, and work, by Swedish journalist Katrine Marcal
It all starts with a rolling suitcase.
The wheel was invented some five thousand years ago and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marcal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because “real men” carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the seventies, but they were marketed as a niche product for the presumably few women traveling alone, and the wheeled suitcase wasn’t “invented” until it was no longer threatening to masculinity.
Mother of Invention draws on this example and many others, from electric cars to tech billionaires, to show how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back. Our traditional notions about men and women have delayed innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and have distorted our understanding of our history. While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, we might as well talk about the Ceramic Age or the Flax Age, since these technologies were just as important. But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way.
Katrine Marcal’s Mother of Invention is a fascinating examination of business, technology, and innovation through a feminist lens. Marcal takes us on a tour of the global economy, arguing that gendered assumptions dictate which businesses get funding, how we value work, and how we trace human progress. And it carries a powerful message: If we upend our biases, we can unleash our full potential, tackling climate change and wielding technology to become more human, rather than less.
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Black Fortunes
- By: Shomari Wills
- Narrator: Ron Butler
- Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 30, 2018
- Language: English
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3.86(2927 ratings)
3.86(2927 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDThe astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires–former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties–self-madeThe astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires–former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties–self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.
While Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Michael Jordan, and Will Smith are among the estimated 35,000 black millionaires in the nation today, these famous celebrities were not the first blacks to reach the storied one percent. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of smart, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success.
Black Fortunes is an intriguing look at these remarkable individuals, including Napoleon Bonaparte Drew–author Shomari Wills’ great-great-great-grandfather–the first black man in Powhatan County (contemporary Richmond) to own property in post-Civil War Virginia. His achievements were matched by five other unknown black entrepreneurs including:
- Mary Ellen Pleasant, who used her Gold Rush wealth to further the cause of abolitionist John Brown;
- Robert Reed Church, who became the largest landowner in Tennessee;
- Hannah Elias, the mistress of a New York City millionaire, who used the land her lover gave her to build an empire in Harlem;
- Orphan and self-taught chemist Annie Turnbo-Malone, who developed the first national brand of hair care products;
- Madam C. J Walker, Turnbo-Malone’s employee who would earn the nickname America’s “first female black millionaire;”
- Mississippi school teacher O. W. Gurley, who developed a piece of Tulsa, Oklahoma, into a “town” for wealthy black professionals and craftsmen” that would become known as “the Black Wall Street.”
A fresh, little-known chapter in the nation’s story–A blend of Hidden Figures, Titan, and The Tycoons—Black Fortunes illuminates the birth of the black business titan and the emergence of the black marketplace in America as never before.
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White Fright
- By: Jane Dailey
- Narrator: Kylah Frye
- Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 17, 2020
- Language: English
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3.82(83 ratings)
3.82(83 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggleA major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American rights. Those fighting against equality were not motivated only by a sense of innate superiority, as is often supposed, but also by an intense fear of black sexuality.In this urgent investigation, Dailey examines how white anxiety about interracial sex and marriage found expression in some of the most contentious episodes of American history since Reconstruction: in battles over lynching, in the policing of black troops’ behavior overseas during World War II, in the violent outbursts following the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and in the tragic story of Emmett Till. The question was finally settled — as a legal matter — with the Court’s definitive 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, which declared interracial marriage a “fundamental freedom.” Placing sex at the center of our civil rights history, White Fright offers a bold new take on one of the most confounding threads running through American history.
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Water Tossing Boulders
- By: Adrienne Berard
- Narrator: Moe Egan
- Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Beacon Press
- Publish date: November 08, 2017
- Language: English
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3.8(147 ratings)
3.8(147 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese and therefore colored; the school was for whites. This event would lead to the first US SupremeOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese and therefore colored; the school was for whites. This event would lead to the first US Supreme Court case to challenge racial division within Southern public schools, thirty years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education brought down walls of segregation in the South. In the first case to confront the separate but equal doctrine, the Lum family along with an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for the right to educate Chinese Americans in the white schools of the Jim Crow South. Through extensive research in historical documents and family correspondence, Berard illuminates a vital, hidden chapter of America’s past.
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The Lines Between Us
- By: Lawrence Lanahan
- Narrator: Walter Dixon
- Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 21, 2019
- Language: English
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3.79(165 ratings)
3.79(165 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThe crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore’s inner city, and Nicole, a black mother determined to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeplyThe crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore’s inner city, and Nicole, a black mother determined to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and why these fault lines persist today. Mark and Nicole personify the enormous disparities in access to safe housing, educational opportunities, and decent jobs. As these characters pack up their lives and change places, journalist Lawrence Lanahan examines what it will take to save our cities and communities: Do we put money into poor, segregated neighborhoods? Or do we move families out into areas with more opportunity? This eye-opening account of how a city creates its black, white, rich, and poor spaces suggests that these problems are not intractable but that they are destined to persist until each of us–despite living in separate worlds–understands that we have something at stake.
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The Devil’s Harvest
- By: Jessica Garrison
- Narrator: Jessica Garrison
- Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 04, 2020
- Language: English
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3.75(261 ratings)
3.75(261 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThis suspenseful true story of a drug cartel hitman who got away with murder after murder in California’s Central Valley over three decades reveals how the criminal justice system fails our most vulnerable immigrant communities.On the surface,This suspenseful true story of a drug cartel hitman who got away with murder after murder in California’s Central Valley over three decades reveals how the criminal justice system fails our most vulnerable immigrant communities.
On the surface, fifty-eight-year-old Jose Martinez didn’t seem evil or even that remarkable–just a regular neighbor, good with cars and devoted to his family. But in between taking his children to Disneyland and visiting his mom, Martinez was also one of the most skilled professional killers police had ever seen.
He tracked one victim to one of the wealthiest corners of America, a horse ranch in Santa Barbara, and shot him dead in the morning sunlight, setting off a decades-long manhunt. He shot another man, a farmworker, right in front of his young wife as they drove to work in the fields. The widow would wait decades for justice. Those were murders for hire. Others he killed for vengeance.
How did Martinez manage to evade law enforcement for so long with little more than a slap on the wrist? Because he understood a dark truth about the criminal justice system: if you kill the “right people”–people who are poor, who aren’t white, and who don’t have anyone to speak up for them–you can get away with it.
Melding the pacing and suspense of a true crime thriller with the rigor of top-notch investigative journalism, The Devil’s Harvest follows award-winning reporter Jessica Garrison’s relentless search for the truth as she traces the life of this assassin, the cops who were always a few steps behind him, and the families of his many victims. Drawing upon decades of case files, interrogation transcripts, on-the-ground reporting, and Martinez’s chilling handwritten journals, The Devil’s Harvest uses a gripping and often shocking narrative to dig into one of the most important moral questions haunting our politically divided nation today: Why do some deaths–and some lives–matter more than others?
“Meticulously researched and tightly woven, The Devil’s Harvest is an important story because it tells us that if [this] can happen in one place, then it can happen in any place. And that’s damn scary.” –Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author of The Closers, The Lincoln Lawyer, and The Night Fire
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