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Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.
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I had to return
- De Andrew Alvarez en 05-19-20
De: Paul Ortiz
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Unnatural Selection
- Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
- De: Mara Hvistendahl
- Narrado por: Tamara Marston
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in 10 years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have 24 million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. And gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia....
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Interesting idea but...
- De Seth P Dow en 07-30-15
De: Mara Hvistendahl
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Imbeciles
- The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
- De: Adam Cohen
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.”
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Compelling Concept, Aggravating Execution
- De Gillian en 04-05-16
De: Adam Cohen
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Pox
- An American History
- De: Michael Willrich
- Narrado por: K. Todd Freeman
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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At the turn of the last century, a smallpox epidemic swept the United States. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern plantations to the immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the American empire. In Pox, historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation's continent-wide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the 20th century.
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Best book on smallpox
- De Chris M. White en 09-07-21
De: Michael Willrich
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Fight Back and Win
- My 30-Year Fight Against Injustice and How You Can Win Your Own Battles
- De: Gloria Allred
- Narrado por: Gloria Allred
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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Fearless lawyer, feminist, activist, television and radio commentator, warrior, advocate, and winner, Gloria Allred is all of these things and more. Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes", Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights across boundaries of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, and social class.
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Amazing book, amazing woman.
- De Hope en 04-05-12
De: Gloria Allred
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This Noble Land
- My Vision For America
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Arthur Addison
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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This Noble Land is Michener's most personal statement about America, an examination of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine the nation - racial conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of education, the inadequacies of our health care system - as well as a thought-provoking prescription for sustaining our "outstanding success". First published shortly before Michener's death, This Noble Land stands as a wake-up call for a troubled era, infused with the wisdom and passion of a lifetime.
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A startling realization
- De Amazon Customer en 08-15-15
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Jane Crow
- The Life of Pauli Murray
- De: Rosalind Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law.
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What a legacy!!!
- De Paul en 03-08-21
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How Rights Went Wrong
- Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
- De: Jamal Greene
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they were an afterthought for the Framers. Only as a result of the racial strife that exploded during the Civil War—and a series of resulting missteps by the Supreme Court—did rights gain such outsized power. Over and again, courts have treated rights conflicts as zero-sum games in which awarding rights to one side means denying rights to others. As eminent legal scholar Jamal Greene shows in How Rights Went Wrong, we need to recouple rights with justice—before they tear society apart.
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A different way to look at rights.
- De Nicolas Pabon en 07-11-23
De: Jamal Greene
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Presumed Guilty
- How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
- De: Erwin Chemerinsky
- Narrado por: Perry Daniels
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty.
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Required Reading
- De Robert Bragaw en 02-26-23
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The Queen
- The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
- De: Josh Levin
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 12 h y 44 m
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In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author). Part social history, part true-crime investigation, Josh Levin's mesmerizing book, the product of six years of reporting and research, is a fascinating account of American racism, and an exposé of the "welfare queen" myth, one that fueled political debates that reverberate to this day.
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Very compelling story!
- De Marilyn en 06-24-19
De: Josh Levin
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Policing the Black Man
- Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
- De: Angela J. Davis - editor
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing. Essays range from an explication of the historical roots of racism in the criminal justice system to an examination of modern-day police killings of unarmed black men.
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A Book Every Young White Male Should Read
- De danielwead en 08-04-17
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Sex and the Constitution
- Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century
- De: Geoffrey R. Stone
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 20 h y 41 m
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Constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to America's earliest days to today's fractious political climate. Stone crafts a remarkable narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and especially the justices of the Supreme Court have historically navigated issues as explosive and divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception.
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Divisive Issues
- De Joanne en 06-28-17
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American Psychosis
- How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
- De: E. Fuller Torrey
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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E. Fuller Torrey's audiobook provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program. On staff at the National Institute of Mental Health when the program was being developed and implemented, Torrey draws on his own first-hand account of the creation and launch of the program, extensive research, one-on-one interviews with people involved, and recently unearthed audiotapes of interviews with major figures involved in the legislation. As such, this book provides historical material previously unavailable to the public.
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Devastating analysis on US mental health policy!
- De Kevin en 07-13-14
De: E. Fuller Torrey