Futureface (Adapted for Young Readers)
A Family Mystery, a Search for Identity, and the Truth About Belonging
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Alex Wagner
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For anyone who is interested in genealogy and DNA profiling, this is the story of a journalist who travels the world to solve the mystery of her ancestry, facing questions about American identity and what it means to belong. Now adapted for young listeners from the acclaimed adult memoir.
Who are my people? Where am I from?
With a Burmese mother and a white American father, Alex Wagner grew up thinking of herself as a "futureface" - an example of what the mixed-race future of America would look like. Her father's ancestors immigrated to the United States from Ireland and Luxembourg. Her mother fled Burma - now Myanmar - with her family in the 1960s.
When Alex learns that her ancestry might be more mysterious than she believed, she becomes obsessed with learning everything there is to know about her ethnic and racial history. Her journey takes her from Burma to Luxembourg, from birth records written on banana leaves to high-tech genetic labs and online ancestry profiles.
Through a blend of history, science, and sociology, Alex tries to solve the mysteries of her family and what it means to be American. What makes us think of certain people as "us" and others as "them"? In a time of conflict over who we are as a country, she tries to find the story where we all belong.
Praise for the adult edition of Futureface
"A thoughtful, beautiful meditation on what makes us who we are." (Barack Obama)
"Smart, timely, and moving." (Eddie Huang, best-selling author of Fresh Off the Boat)
"A rich and revealing memoir." (The New York Times)
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On Juneteenth
- De: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 3 h y 44 m
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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A short but compelling combination of history and
- De BK en 05-18-21
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When We Were Arabs
- A Jewish Family's Forgotten History
- De: Massoud Hayoun
- Narrado por: Massoud Hayoun
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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painful to read.
- De Eli Cukierman en 03-13-20
De: Massoud Hayoun
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In Search of Our Roots
- How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
- De: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying Black men and women even their names. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes 19 extraordinary African Americans on a once unimaginable journey, tracing family sagas through US history and back to Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Placeholder en 04-17-19
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Israel
- A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
- De: Noa Tishby
- Narrado por: Noa Tishby
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,350
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,244
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,234
Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles away but remains a hot-button issue and a thorny topic of debate. But while everyone seems to have a strong opinion about Israel, how many people actually know the facts? Here to fill in the information gap is Israeli American Noa Tishby.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I hope this book will help
- De Wayne en 05-08-21
De: Noa Tishby
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Gods of the Upper Air
- How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- De: Charles King
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 257
A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled "primitive" or "advanced". What counted as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a product of history and circumstance, not of nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Much Needed despite poor performance
- De J. Kahn en 08-21-19
De: Charles King
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Learning from the Germans
- Race and the Memory of Evil
- De: Susan Neiman
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 20 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an important book.
- De Amazon Customer en 05-29-20
De: Susan Neiman
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The Address Book
- What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
- De: Deirdre Mask
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 205
An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Simply OK
- De CJFLA en 07-18-20
De: Deirdre Mask
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The Invisible History of the Human Race
- How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
- De: Christine Kenneally
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 154
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 153
In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going. While some books explore our genetic inheritance and some popular television shows celebrate ancestry, this is the first book to explore how everything from DNA to emotions to names and the stories that form our lives are all part of our human legacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who are you really. Who am I?
- De Annie M. en 10-28-14
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Plunder
- A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
- De: Meir Menachem Kaiser
- Narrado por: Meir Menachem Kaiser
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable but tiresome
- De Cecily Drucker en 04-04-21
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House of Glass
- The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
- De: Hadley Freeman
- Narrado por: Hadley Freeman
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother, Sara, lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance
- De Derek en 08-30-22
De: Hadley Freeman
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Afropean
- Notes from Black Europe
- De: Johny Pitts
- Narrado por: Johny Pitts
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken continent, Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities: too indelibly woven into Europe to identify with Africa and yet struggling with outdated ideas of what it means to be European.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Suzie M en 04-04-24
De: Johny Pitts
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- De: Michael Booth
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not much new here if you are already familiar
- De Neil Richert en 07-13-20
De: Michael Booth
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The American Experiment
- Dialogues on a Dream
- De: David M. Rubenstein
- Narrado por: David M. Rubenstein, Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Exploring the diverse make-up of our country’s DNA through interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants, The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is — and what it can be.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A post graduate experience
- De Barbara or Jerold Gendler en 12-08-21
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How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- De: Clint Smith
- Narrado por: Clint Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,586
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,205
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,191
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the listener on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sincerely grateful read
- De Kelvin Dixon en 06-08-21
De: Clint Smith
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The Art of Inventing Hope
- Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel
- De: Howard Reich
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 70
The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world's most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel's life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago, and Florida - and spoke often on the phone - to discuss the subject that linked them: both Wiesel and Reich's father, Robert Reich, were liberated from Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945. What started as an interview assignment from the Chicago Tribune evolved into a friendship and partnership.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a view into post holocaust survivors recovery
- De Lance Strosser en 02-17-21
De: Howard Reich
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I Want You to Know We're Still Here
- A Post-Holocaust Memoir
- De: Esther Safran Foer
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer, Esther Safran Foer
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but…
- De mk en 08-23-21
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Disintegration
- The Splintering of Black America
- De: Eugene Robinson
- Narrado por: Alan Bomar Jones
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book Disintegration, longtime Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Written for Popular Consumption
- De Catherine S. Read en 06-03-11
De: Eugene Robinson