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The world renowned author of The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie is a Whitbread Award winner and recipient of the Booker Prize. His first truly American novel, Fury is a metaphorically rich black comedy that reflects the pressure-cooker of modern life. Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants.
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- De David en 11-21-07
De: Salman Rushdie
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Street Poison
- The Biography of Iceberg Slim
- De: Justin Gifford
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of the "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture.
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A must read for all Robert Beck fans.
- De JMKIII58 en 09-15-16
De: Justin Gifford
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The Devil Finds Work
- An Essay
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
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Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist.
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A Critical Masterpiece.
- De Ramon McGee en 05-10-18
De: James Baldwin
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Empire of Sin
- De: Gary Krist
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' 30-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides.
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very interesting
- De Claireoline en 02-20-15
De: Gary Krist
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My Thoughts Be Bloody
- The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth
- De: Nora Titone, Doris Kearns Goodwin - introduction/notes
- Narrado por: John B. Lloyd
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
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My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln's death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes's older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln's assassin has never been told.
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Wonderful!
- De Tad Davis en 11-30-10
De: Nora Titone, y otros
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The Lady in Gold
- The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'
- De: Anne-Marie O'Connor
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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The Lady in Gold, considered an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the 20th century's most recognizable paintings, made headlines all over the world when Ronald Lauder bought it for $135 million a century after Klimt, the most famous Austrian painter of his time, completed the society portrait. Anne-Marie O'Connor, writer for the Washington Post, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, tells the galvanizing story of the Lady in Gold, Adele Bloch-Bauer, a dazzling Viennese Jewish society figure.
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- De David A Weatherbie en 04-13-15
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Lady Killers
- Deadly Women Throughout History
- De: Tori Telfer
- Narrado por: Jaime Lamchick
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender? The narrative we’re comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, “There are no female serial killers.”
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I think the narrator really made this one for me
- De Michaela Rose en 09-29-22
De: Tori Telfer
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Becoming Faulkner
- The Art and Life of William Faulker
- De: Philip Weinstein
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the 20th century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the loss of his brother in an airplane crash; a disappointing stint as a Hollywood screenwriter; and a destructive bout with alcoholism.
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Miss.'s BCS-Bundren.Compson.Snopes/Sutpen/Sartoris
- De W Perry Hall en 05-01-14
De: Philip Weinstein
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American Rose
- A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
- De: Karen Abbott
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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With the critically acclaimed Sin in the Second City, best-selling author Karen Abbott “pioneered sizzle history” (USA Today). Now she returns with the gripping and expansive story of America’s coming-of-age - told through the extraordinary life of Gypsy Rose Lee and the world she survived and conquered. America in the Roaring Twenties. Vaudeville was king. Talking pictures were only a distant flicker. Speakeasies beckoned beyond dimly lit doorways; money flowed fast and free.
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Well done biography of a complicated Icon
- De Moire en 01-27-11
De: Karen Abbott
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Tinseltown
- Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
- De: William J. Mann
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence; yet Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies - including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.
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Everybody's a dreamer...
- De Steven en 01-08-15
De: William J. Mann
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The Moor's Last Sigh
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
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The performance is enchanting.
- De Kelly en 05-04-18
De: Salman Rushdie
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- De: James Weldon Johnson
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse the two worlds. The book presents the fictional account of "an ex-colored man" - an African-American who could pass for white - as he attempts to choose which side of the line will better suit his life, and his psyche.
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New favorite
- De Jess en 03-19-15
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White like Her
- De: Gail Lukasik PhD, Kenyatta D. Berry - foreword
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother's fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother's racial lineage, tracing her family back to 18th-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage.
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Disappointed
- De Yoli en 06-06-18
De: Gail Lukasik PhD, y otros
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Lose Your Mother
- A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
- De: Saidiya Hartman
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
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In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.
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Outstanding!!
- De eric lewis en 02-19-24
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Scenes of Subjection, Revised and Updated
- Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
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Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review). In Scenes of Subjection—Hartman's first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the "terrible spectacle" and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement.
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Ordinary Notes
- De: Christina Sharpe
- Narrado por: Christina Sharpe
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A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we hear them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past—public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal—with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through this book always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life.
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Very good…
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In the Wake
- On Blackness and Being
- De: Christina Sharpe
- Narrado por: Melanie Nicholls-King
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In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake". Activating multiple registers of "wake" - the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness - Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation.
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What a force
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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
- Early American Studies
- De: Marisa J. Fuentes
- Narrado por: Carrie Burgess
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In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women's bodies, in life and in death.
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Embarrassing
- De Anonymous User en 04-27-19
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Gay New York
- Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
- De: George Chauncey
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Gay New York forever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.
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An Eye Opening History!
- De Nelson en 04-26-22
De: George Chauncey
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Lose Your Mother
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- De: Saidiya Hartman
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
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In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.
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Outstanding!!
- De eric lewis en 02-19-24
De: Saidiya Hartman
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Scenes of Subjection, Revised and Updated
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- De: Saidiya Hartman
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
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Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review). In Scenes of Subjection—Hartman's first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the "terrible spectacle" and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement.
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Ordinary Notes
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A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we hear them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past—public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal—with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through this book always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life.
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Very good…
- De lawrence fauntleroy en 10-01-23
De: Christina Sharpe
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In the Wake
- On Blackness and Being
- De: Christina Sharpe
- Narrado por: Melanie Nicholls-King
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake". Activating multiple registers of "wake" - the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness - Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation.
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What a force
- De Kevin Walsh en 05-30-23
De: Christina Sharpe
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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
- Early American Studies
- De: Marisa J. Fuentes
- Narrado por: Carrie Burgess
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In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women's bodies, in life and in death.
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Embarrassing
- De Anonymous User en 04-27-19
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Gay New York
- Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
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Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Gay New York forever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.
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An Eye Opening History!
- De Nelson en 04-26-22
De: George Chauncey
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Postcapitalist Desire
- The Final Lectures
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Beginning with that most fundamental of questions - ''Do we really want what we say we want?'' - Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.
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Amazing ideas from a man who was too brilliant
- De Jim en 08-11-21
De: Mark Fisher
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Demonic Grounds
- Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle
- De: Katherine McKittrick
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of Black women's geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, Black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery. Analyzing diverse literatures and material geographies, McKittrick reveals how human geographies are a result of racialized connections and how spaces that are fraught with limitation are underacknowledged but meaningful sites of political opposition.
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Beautiful book
- De Ella en 02-13-23
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Scenes of Subjection
- Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
- De: Saidiya V. Hartman
- Narrado por: Nichole Marie
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage listeners in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies.
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Very thorough text on the subjugation of Black Americans
- De K.Nicholson en 09-20-21
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Black Folk
- The Roots of the Black Working Class
- De: Blair L.M. Kelley
- Narrado por: Anika Noni Rose
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story.
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Brilliant, Devastating, Inspiring
- De Philana Payton en 04-10-24
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Franchise
- The Golden Arches in Black America
- De: Marcia Chatelain
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized capitalism's villainous effects on our nation's most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who believed they found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality.
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Window into Black Capitalism
- De Keith en 01-13-20
De: Marcia Chatelain
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Living a Feminist Life
- De: Sara Ahmed
- Narrado por: Larissa Gallagher
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique - often by naming and calling attention to problems - and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them.
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A great book ruined by the narrator
- De Gilda Rodriguez en 09-05-17
De: Sara Ahmed
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Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
- De: Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe - introduction
- Narrado por: Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand’s poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand’s ongoing labours of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences.
De: Dionne Brand, y otros
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At the Dark End of the Street
- Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
- De: Danielle L. McGuire
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a 24-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer to Abbeville. Her name was Rosa Parks.
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Difficult topic, trigger warnings apply
- De Adam Shields en 08-03-22
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
- De: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrado por: Angela Y. Davis
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
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With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.
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Buying the paperback now too
- De Theresa Frey en 03-14-23
De: Angela Y. Davis
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The Women's House of Detention
- A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
- De: Hugh Ryan
- Narrado por: Janet Metzger
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City’s Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates—Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur—were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine.
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Thought provoking and Important
- De Jillian en 01-15-24
De: Hugh Ryan
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Black on Both Sides
- A Racial History of Trans Identity
- De: C. Riley Snorton
- Narrado por: C. Riley Snorton
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-19th century to present-day anti-Black and anti-trans legislation and violence.
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Marginalized academic philosophy: pros and cons
- De Paul en 05-02-23
De: C. Riley Snorton
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Cruel Optimism
- De: Lauren Berlant
- Narrado por: Amanda McKibbin
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted.
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Terrible narration
- De Karen Pittelman en 09-07-23
De: Lauren Berlant
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
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- 02-12-21
what a wonderful book
I loved the writing style and the stories. I would highly recommend it to everyone.
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- 04-09-22
On black women: love drained and emptied her
This book uses characters to paint the lives of trauma endured by black women during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. I appreciated every moment of it. More than anything, it helps one to understand the relationship between incidents of one's past and the formation of one's identity. Hartman writes about black women and their random convictions and their vulnerability to the lascivious hands of society. She also discusses free love versus the obligations of marriage. She unpacks the reality of new forms of slavery post emancipation. Black women having to support black men because they couldn't get jobs. Black women couldn't roam the streets alone without being at risk of rape or reformatory where they would reside for three years. She states, "the police snatched you ip and had an excuse later." Servitude was the only life that was acceptable for them to society. Having a life outside of work for the black woman was "disorderly." People shunned black women because they were black and poor. They weren't equal to white women, and no matter how hard they worked to support their families, they would never be equal to men. House tenement laws. The only thing she could dream of is being a "dancer, domestic, or whore." She also speaks about the ways in which black and white females crossed sexual boundaries in buffet flats and the home of Madame C. J. Walker's daughter.
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- L.A.
- 12-27-19
Utterly beautiful!
Saidiya Hartman has produced a gift of deep love. Her careful attention to the lives of Black women, who society has cast as unimportant, deviant, menial, and forgettable, is both a masterful, poignant mourning and celebration of persistent freedom dreams. This soulful book offers both intimate portraits and a fuller history of the social landscape of the early twentieth-century than typically disclosed. Wayward Lives is a lush elaboration of Hartman's many meditations on what is possible to uncover when the archive is scant and violent. As a writer and student, I am thankful for this book which is a masterclass. As a Black woman, I am thankful for Hartman's commitment to seeing us, caring for us, loving us, and imagining an otherwise.
Wayward Lives challenges everyone to take up the work of waywardness, committing to freedom.
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- Marcia Baynes
- 06-07-19
Unique and brilliant.
Uniquely brilliant in methodology. Must be read with your eyes and ears. Honors the lives and women who by their legacy taught us how to not just survive but thrive in an environment designed to destroy them.
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- Kr
- 11-13-23
Everything
A beautiful book. Written about beautiful lives in tragic times. Written beautifully. Everything I’ve hoped for in a book about Black womankind.
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- Pradnya
- 02-07-20
Crucial but glorious read
It is important to educate yourself about these Black women and their stories. This history of Black women needs to be told and heard. Beautifully written!
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- David B.
- 10-16-20
A Great Book
Well-written, well-narrated. this book really made me think about inequality in our society today, and in particular about how I can't believe Jeff Bezos made so much money while Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 due to unsafe workplace policies with minimal hazard pay and were fired (and in some cases smeared and ruined) for organizing for dignified working conditions.
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- Pearl L.
- 01-31-23
Humanizing the archives
Dr. Hartman’s imagination breathes life into the archives on black women and non-men of the post-civil war, pre-civil rights era. Dr. Hartman highlights the different ways people take their freedom, while not shying away from the reality of Jim Crow America. The book juxtaposes how white eyes have analyzed these lives (often paternalistic, dehumanizing, fetishizing, or flattening) with her own analysis couched in imaginings inspired by archival evidence. A must read.
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- Ifayemisi
- 12-29-22
Beautifully raw
There are so few books that speak to the ordinary experiences of the post-enslaved Black woman. This book does a masterful job of capturing a variety of experiences without distilling their complexities.
It is so raw but the writing is so well done that it mitigates the anxiety, sadness, and anger of realizing that nothing has changed and that all that we are blamed for was engineered!
I saw and heard myself and others like me in this work.
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- T.N.
- 09-11-19
Necessary
This is one of the most important books you will read this year. The audio version is excellent.
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