African American Finance

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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,069 ratings
    • Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • The Golden Arches in Black America
    • By: Marcia Chatelain
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America....

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    • Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically....

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    • Success Secrets of Black Millionaires
    • By: Dennis Kimbro
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 997 ratings
    • Based on a seven-year study of 1,000 of the wealthiest African Americans, The Wealth Choice offers a trove of sound and surprising advice about climbing the economic ladder, even when the odds seem stacked against you....

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    • St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
    • By: Walter Johnson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis....

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    • A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
    • By: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 30 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light....

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    • How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
    • By: Jason L. Riley
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,128 ratings
    • Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....

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    • Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class
    • By: Kris Marsh
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA)....

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    • Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
    • By: David Farber
    • Narrated by: Kerry Shale
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling "rock" cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld....

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    • Race and Labor in America Since 1865
    • By: Robert H. Zieger
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 describes the African American struggle to obtain equal rights in the workplace and organized labor's response to their demands....

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    • An African American Woman's Road Map to Independence
    • By: Troy Young
    • Narrated by: Greg Campbell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • This book is a road map to explore one's financial possibilities. It will show you all the twists and turns. It will explain where you are likely to encounter financial traffic jams and which detours to take along the way....

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    • Making America as Good as Its Promise
    • By: Tavis Smiley
    • Narrated by: Tavis Smiley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Accountable provides real-life examples of how crucial issues manifest themselves in our communities....

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    • Own Your Financial Narrative
    • By: Shehara L. Wooten
    • Narrated by: Shehara L. Wooten
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Did you know that Black wealth will fall to zero by 2053 unless we do something about it? Shehara Wooten’s In the Meantime: Own Your Financial Narrative highlights people who have succeeded by creating their own definition of financial freedom....

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    • Fostering Trade, Tourism, and Investment Between African Americans and Africa
    • By: Baker Kabanda
    • Narrated by: Thonella N
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • In a compelling exploration of global unity and economic potential, Baker presents a bold argument for a greater connection between African Americans and their ancestral home, Africa.

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    • What Every African American Should Know About Investing
    • By: Brenda Hampton
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Are you tired of everyone else getting ahead but you? Do you think about your children’s futures and generations to come? Does the wealth gap in ...

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