African American Sociology

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

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    • The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
    • By: Jack D. Forbes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native-American and African-American peoples throughout the hemisphere....

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • By: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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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 110 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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    • A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
    • By: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award recipient Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy.....

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    • By: W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,113 ratings
    • rst published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic in the literature of civil rights....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,862 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
    • By: Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Narrated by: Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history....

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    • The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
    • By: William C. Rhoden
    • Narrated by: William C. Rhoden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 368 ratings
    • Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of Black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings....

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    • The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
    • By: Matthew F. Delmont
    • Narrated by: William DeMeritt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home....

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,932 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
    • By: Tiffany Lethabo King
    • Narrated by: Trei Taylor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal - an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea - as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies....

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    • Womanist Prose
    • By: Alice Walker
    • Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant....

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    • A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America
    • By: Living Cities, Aminah Pilgrim
    • Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Discover how - and why - Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’ arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement....

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    • By: Katrina Hazzard-Donald
    • Narrated by: Sharell Palmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, the author argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters"....

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    • The Untold Story of an American Icon
    • By: Nyasha Junior, Jeremy Schipper
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King was identified with Moses, African Americans identified those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson....

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    • Mothers and Race in Black and White
    • By: April Ryan
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • At Mama's Knee looks at race and race relations through the lessons that mothers transmit to their children....

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    • A True Story of Murder in America
    • By: Jill Leovy
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,895 ratings
    • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America....

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    • One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
    • By: Esau McCaulley
    • Narrated by: Esau McCaulley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class.

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