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- How Embracing Diversity - from the Office to the Oscars - Makes America Stronger
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Lauren Leader-Chivee
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto - a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the history of the ghetto in Europe, as well as later efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Impressive
- De Jean en 12-10-16
De: Mitchell Duneier
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Beyond the Messy Truth
- How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
- De: Van Jones
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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In Beyond the Messy Truth, Jones offers a blueprint for transforming our collective anxiety into meaningful change. Tough on Donald Trump but showing respect and empathy for his supporters, Jones takes aim at the failures of both parties before and after Trump's victory. He urges both sides to abandon the politics of accusation and focus on real solutions. Calling us to a deeper patriotism, he shows us how to get down to the vital business of solving, together, some of our toughest problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I never hated anyone before
- De Joanna Bugajska en 11-17-17
De: Van Jones
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Please Stop Helping Us
- How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
- De: Jason L. Riley
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding Black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of Blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer Black college graduates than would otherwise exist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading
- De Ken Larsen en 02-15-15
De: Jason L. Riley
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White Feminism
- From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
- De: Koa Beck
- Narrado por: Koa Beck
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Addressing today’s conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion in America, Koa Beck, writer and former editor-in-chief of Jezebel, boldly examines the history of feminism, from the true mission of the suffragists to the rise of corporate feminism with clear-eyed scrutiny and meticulous detail. She also examines overlooked communities - including Native American, Muslim, transgender, and more - and their ongoing struggles for social change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visionary!
- De J. F. Beck en 01-06-21
De: Koa Beck
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The Big Sort
- Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
- De: Bill Bishop, Robert G. Cushing
- Narrado por: Paul Brion
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort". Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities - not by region or by state but by city and even neighborhood. Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhoods (and churches and news shows) compatible with our lifestyles and beliefs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Build the Wall?
- De Amazon Customer en 01-23-19
De: Bill Bishop, y otros
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The Audacity of Hope
- Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,700
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6,830
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,786
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics: a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of "our improbable experiment in democracy".
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Fellow Conservatives, Give This A Listen
- De Dallas D.L. en 02-12-15
De: Barack Obama
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Rwanda, Inc.
- How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World
- De: Patricia Crisafulli, Andrea Redmond
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on the world stage yet again - this time with a unique model for governance and economic development under the leadership of its strong and decisive president, Paul Kagame. Here, Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond look at Kagame’s leadership.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Paul Kagame is a dictator, not a savior.
- De Amazon Customer en 05-21-21
De: Patricia Crisafulli, y otros
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A Nation of Nations
- A Story of America After the 1965 Immigration Law
- De: Tom Gjelten
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was 90 percent white, 10 percent African American, with a little more than 100 families who were "other". Currently the African American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than 50 percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living all over the county. A Nation of Nations follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually "Americanize".
De: Tom Gjelten
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Disintegration
- The Splintering of Black America
- De: Eugene Robinson
- Narrado por: Alan Bomar Jones
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book Disintegration, longtime Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Written for Popular Consumption
- De Catherine S. Read en 06-03-11
De: Eugene Robinson
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Bad News
- How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
- De: Batya Ungar-Sargon
- Narrado por: Batya Ungar-Sargon
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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Today’s newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including “antiracism,” intersectionality, open borders, and critical race theory. How did this come to be? It all has to do with who our news media is written by—and who it is written for. In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon reveals how American journalism underwent a status revolution over the twentieth century—from a blue-collar trade to an elite profession.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Balanced, informative, and insightful
- De J. B. Eibel en 06-06-22
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The People vs. Democracy
- Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
- De: Yascha Mounk
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy - individual rights and the popular will - are at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of public contestation, a system of "rights without democracy" took hold. Populists who rail against this say they want to return power to the people. But in practice they create a system of "democracy without rights."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not worth it
- De DailyShopper en 06-07-18
De: Yascha Mounk
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Why Young Men
- The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It
- De: Jamil Jivani
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Jamil Jivani recounts his experiences working as a youth activist throughout North America and the Middle East, drawing striking parallels between ISIS recruits, gangbangers, and Neo-Nazis in the West. Having narrowly escaped a descent into crime and gang violence in his native Toronto, Jivani has devoted his life to helping other at-risk youths avoid this fate in cities across North America. After the Paris terrorist attacks of 2016, he traveled to Europe and the Middle East to assist Muslim community outreach groups focused on deterring ISIS recruitment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More of a memoir than a sociological tretise
- De Josh en 07-02-19
De: Jamil Jivani
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Know Your Price
- Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
- De: Andre M. Perry
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes listeners on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More about Black lives than property
- De J. Craig en 04-13-22
De: Andre M. Perry
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Democracy in Black
- How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
- De: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency - at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we've solved America's race problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Dysfunctional Mindset of American
- De Paul T. en 07-09-16
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The Complacent Class
- The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
- De: Tyler Cowen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist, and best-selling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition - we're working harder than ever to avoid change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MUST READ
- De RJW en 05-06-17
De: Tyler Cowen
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Korea
- The Impossible Country
- De: Daniel Tudor
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just 50 years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. With no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule, Korea managed to accomplish a second Asian miracle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book
- De Antoine en 12-14-18
De: Daniel Tudor
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Dog Whistle Politics
- How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
- De: Ian Haney López
- Narrado por: Eric Yves Garcia
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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In Dog Whistle Politics, Ian Haney Lopez offers a sweeping account of how politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial appeals to persuade white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their own interests. Dog-whistle appeals generate middle-class enthusiasm for political candidates who promise to crack down on crime, curb undocumented immigration, and protect the heartland against Islamic infiltration, but ultimately vote to slash taxes for the rich.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narration like verbal water boarding
- De Mark Andreadis en 08-31-15
De: Ian Haney López