African American Women Politics

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    • White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
    • By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow....

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    • Black Women and Feminism (2nd Edition)
    • By: bell hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 905 ratings
    • A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

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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 152 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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    • By: Issa Rae
    • Narrated by: Issa Rae
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,032 ratings
    • "My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and Black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be."....

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    • Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
    • By: David Williams, Howard Zinn - editor
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others....

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    • 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America
    • By: Karen Arrington
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Channel your Black-girl magic: If you're feeling stuck or trapped by other people's expectations of what you can achieve, it's time to stop playing small and start redefining what success can mean for you....

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    • Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle
    • By: Katherine McKittrick
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • 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....

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    • 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul
    • By: Oludara Adeeyo
    • Narrated by: Angel Pean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Prioritize your well-being with these 150 self-care exercises designed specifically to help Black women revitalize their outlook on life, improve their mental health, eliminate stress, and self-advocate....

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    • Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
    • By: Jessica Marie Johnson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by Black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....

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    • A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,910 ratings
    • The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,608 ratings
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,759 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
    • By: Tamura Lomax
    • Narrated by: Trei Taylor
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the Black church and in Black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define Black girlhood and womanhood....

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    • Heal from the Racial, Relationship, and Childhood Trauma That’s Holding You Back, Stop Devaluing Yourself, and Cure Toxic Self-Talk by Treating Yourself like Someone You Love
    • By: Nya Love
    • Narrated by: Candace Berry
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In Self-Love for Black Women, Nya Love takes you on a transformative journey, offering practical tools and strategies to help you overcome past traumas, improve relationships, and cultivate unshakable self-worth....

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    • A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
    • By: C. Nicole Mason
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Born Bright, C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, is a story of reconciliation, constrained choices, and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles....

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    • (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
    • By: Sami Schalk
    • Narrated by: Renee Reed
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability....

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    • The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
    • By: Daphne A. Brooks
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a new perspective on acclaimed figures such as Aretha Franklin and Beyonce, who exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry—a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other Black women....

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    • Passionate Politics
    • By: bell hooks
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 775 ratings
    • What is feminism?

      In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her....

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