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Read Until You Understand
- The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
- Narrado por: Farah Jasmine Griffin
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Farah Jasmine Griffin’s beloved father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand - a line from a note he wrote to her - she shares a lifetime of discoveries: the ideas that framed the US Constitution and that inspired Malcolm X’s fervent speeches, the soulful music of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, the daring literature of Phillis Wheatley and Toni Morrison, the artistry of Romare Bearden, and many others.
Having taught a popular Columbia University survey course of Black literature, she explores themes such as grace, justice, rage, self-determination, beauty, and mercy to help listeners grapple with the ongoing project that is American democracy. Joining her experiences in Black communities with her immersion in the glorious works of Black artists, Read Until You Understand is a powerful testament to the enduring wisdom of Black culture and history.
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Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they actually compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors. Where did these values come from? How have they failed those on the edges of our society? And how can we disentangle ourselves from our culture's headlong pursuit of these values and live faithful lives of service to God and our neighbors?
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Sooooo good. Powerful
- De D. Frazier en 08-19-21
De: D.L. Mayfield
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We Have Overcome
- An Immigrant's Letter to the American People
- De: Jason D. Hill
- Narrado por: Jared Wright
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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The dominant narrative, repeated in the media and from the angry mouths of politicians and activists, is the exact opposite of the reality. They paint a portrait of an America rife with racial and ethnic division, where minorities are mired in a poverty worse than slavery, and white people stand at the top of an unfairly stacked pyramid of privilege. Jason D. Hill corrects the narrative in this powerfully eloquent book. Dr. Hill came to America at the age of twenty from Jamaica and, rather than being faced with intractable racial bigotry, Hill found a land of bountiful opportunity.
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A message of hope for all Americans
- De No Regrets en 06-25-20
De: Jason D. Hill
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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On Juneteenth
- De: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 3 h y 44 m
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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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A short but compelling combination of history and
- De BK en 05-18-21
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The Fire This Time
- A New Generation Speaks About Race
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.
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Delusion shattering
- De Matthew A. Burnett en 06-12-20
De: Jesmyn Ward
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Do All Lives Matter?
- The Issue We Can No Longer Ignore and Solutions We Long For
- De: Wayne Gordon, John M. Perkins
- Narrado por: Calvin Robinson
- Duración: 2 h y 4 m
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The belief that all lives matter is at the heart of our founding documents - but we must admit that this conviction has never truly reflected reality in America. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have arisen in response to recent displays of violence and mistreatment, and some of us defensively answer back, "All lives matter". But do they? Really? This audiobook is an exploration of that question.
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Enlightening
- De karleen en 06-26-20
De: Wayne Gordon, y otros
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The Very Good Gospel
- How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
- De: Lisa Sharon Harper, Walter Brueggemann - foreword
- Narrado por: Lisa Sharon Harper
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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Shalom is what God declared. Shalom is what the Kingdom of God looks like. Shalom is when all people have enough. It's when churches, schools, and public policies protect human dignity. Shalom is when the image of God is recognized in every single human. Shalom is our calling as followers of Jesus' gospel. What can we do to bring shalom to our nations, our communities, and our souls? Through a careful exploration of biblical text, particularly the first three chapters of Genesis, Lisa Sharon Harper shows us what "very good" can look like today, even after the Fall.
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The Gospel as Truly Good News
- De Mary Lewis en 06-18-21
De: Lisa Sharon Harper, y otros
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Girl Gurl Grrrl
- On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
- De: Kenya Hunt
- Narrado por: Kenya Hunt, Ebele Okobi, Jessica Horn, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated. But for every milestone, every magazine cover, every new face elected to public office, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience. An American journalist who has been living in London for a decade, Kenya Hunt has made a career of distilling moments, movements, and cultural moods into words. Her work takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible; it is razor sharp cultural observation threaded through evocative and relatable stories.
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Inspired
- De Amazon Customer en 01-29-21
De: Kenya Hunt
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Four Hundred Souls
- A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
- De: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, Keisha N. Blain - editor
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the 400-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present - edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.
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History never taught
- De Scott P ODonnell en 02-16-21
De: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, y otros
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- De: Tiya Miles
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of slavery.
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An Astonishing Feat of Scholarship, Imagination and Empathy
- De Cin en 06-30-21
De: Tiya Miles
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Ida B. the Queen
- De: Michelle Duster
- Narrado por: Michelle Duster
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
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Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator”. In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of a pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated - a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for White passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP.
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I was expecting something different
- De L en 02-01-21
De: Michelle Duster
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Reconstructing the Gospel
- Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
- De: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound" also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder. Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction.
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Disappointing.
- De Elgin Bailey en 04-01-18
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Frederick Douglass
- Prophet of Freedom
- De: David W. Blight
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 36 h y 57 m
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As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence, he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.
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The sound of rollerskating in sand
- De Rico X Ludovici en 02-06-19
De: David W. Blight
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- Rupert
- 04-17-22
Got it....
Loved the heading and understand what your father meant. I now use the same thought with my daughter hoping that she too will understand as she reads.
Ahhhh!! we could spend an whole day, year on music, so many melodies, so many names.
Thank you for sharing. This will be the generation in which we learn that all life's matter. One love.
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- Natalie P.
- 07-04-22
Easily the best book I’ve read in 2022
This book was like taking the best college course I’ve ever had nearly 20 years after finishing undergrad. Highly recommend.
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- Smaran
- 05-20-22
A beautiful meditation
I really loved Read Until You Understand. Especially the way Prof. Griffin moves between memoir, history, and literary readings. I wish more literary scholars wrote so honestly and beautifully. Thank you. 🙏🏽
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- Anonymous User
- 02-21-22
Woven themes
Against the backdrop of her own family and Philadelphia upbringing, the author weaves an entire anthology of Black themes. There is a marvelous detailing of historical Black leaders, writers, musicians, and cultural traumas detailed eloquently and without rancor, up to and including the BLM protests and recent lives lost to police violence. Her narration is sometimes slightly halting, and occasionally the writing changes from past to present tense, which I found distracting. (Perhaps the present tense sections are italicized in the book?) I thought it might be a good introduction to an educational course on the Black experience in America.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-18-22
So Much to Read
This truly made me realize all that I have to explore in black literature. As well as exposing my children NOW! Thank you for sparking my curiosity and hunger for more!
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- Tanya Ortega
- 03-15-22
Beautiful work of art!
work of art loved it
books I have yet to read
calming narration- thank you
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- KathrynVB
- 05-11-22
I would like this to be in print
I work with an organization that helps people in recovery from substance abuse. This would be a great resource for exploring literature of the Black experience in America. Please make a print version.
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- Shenelle Williams
- 10-07-21
Brilliant!!!
I absolutely loved this text, part memoir part historical reference, Professor Griffin weaves the words of some of our most beloved authors, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin into this collection of essays. She discusses topics as varied as mercy, justice and the "transformative potential of love " with an engaging and easily understandable method. I highly recommend this book.
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- kim sears
- 04-23-22
Read so you will understand!
This book is part memoir, part black literature class part intoxicating language and ell worth the time!
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- Jessica
- 04-19-22
Great example of why an author reading their work is impactful
I enjoyed the intertwining of the author’s personal story with the writings that she recommends. While it’s obvious that she’s not a professional reader for this type of material, she does have the speaking experience as an educator and knows the material well. Additionally, in telling her story, the emotional impact of what she shares is palpable.
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