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A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world.
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh ventures toward a tender vision of the future, lifting up children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. If we wish to survive the looming political and ecological crises of our day, Singh contends, we must break from the conventions we have inherited, and orient ourselves toward revolutionary paths that might yet set us free.
The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the US’ stark binaries. With nuance and care, Singh connects the crises humanity faces - climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism. Drawing upon feminist autotheory and the Black epistolary traditions of James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Singh offers us her own generous invitation to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful peek into the heart & soul of a mother
- De Treesey en 10-08-19
De: Imani Perry
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The Myth of the American Dream
- Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety and Power
- De: D.L. Mayfield
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they actually compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors. Where did these values come from? How have they failed those on the edges of our society? And how can we disentangle ourselves from our culture's headlong pursuit of these values and live faithful lives of service to God and our neighbors?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sooooo good. Powerful
- De D. Frazier en 08-19-21
De: D.L. Mayfield
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Between the World and Me
- De: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrado por: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Duración: 3 h y 35 m
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Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race”, a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of Black women and men - bodies exploited through slavery and segregation and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a Black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Heartfelt Self-aware Literary Masterpiece
- De T Spencer en 07-30-15
De: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Life Beyond Measure
- Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
- De: Sidney Poitier
- Narrado por: Sidney Poitier
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of extended letters to his great-granddaughter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mix of family history and life advice.
- De Adam Shields en 10-31-19
De: Sidney Poitier
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- De: Dina Nayeri
- Narrado por: Dina Nayeri
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually, she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of resilience and compassion
- De PAH en 09-06-19
De: Dina Nayeri
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The Fire This Time
- A New Generation Speaks About Race
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delusion shattering
- De Matthew A. Burnett en 06-12-20
De: Jesmyn Ward
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The Years
- De: Annie Ernaux
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Feelings
- De Elin VanD en 05-10-20
De: Annie Ernaux
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Sign My Name to Freedom
- A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
- De: Betty Reid-Soskin
- Narrado por: Betty Reid-Soskin
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for Black folk that followed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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How she stressed Creole, but I guess it was a badge if honor not being regular black.
- De Satisfied customer en 05-21-24
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Girl Gurl Grrrl
- On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
- De: Kenya Hunt
- Narrado por: Kenya Hunt, Ebele Okobi, Jessica Horn, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated. But for every milestone, every magazine cover, every new face elected to public office, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience. An American journalist who has been living in London for a decade, Kenya Hunt has made a career of distilling moments, movements, and cultural moods into words. Her work takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible; it is razor sharp cultural observation threaded through evocative and relatable stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspired
- De Amazon Customer en 01-29-21
De: Kenya Hunt
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Native Country of the Heart
- A Memoir
- De: Cherríe Moraga
- Narrado por: Cherríe Moraga
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Native Country of the Heart is the writer and activist Cherrie Moraga's love letter to her "unlettered" mother. It begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherrie and her mother, and of their people, are woven together in a story of critical reflection and deep personal revelation as Moraga charts her own coming to consciousness alongside the heartbreaking story of her mother's decline.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a must read for all chicanx
- De Rachel Barnett en 04-28-19
De: Cherríe Moraga
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Looking for Lorraine
- The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: LisaGay Hamilton
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Radiant
- De Rose Brookins en 03-20-19
De: Imani Perry
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The Odd Woman and the City
- A Memoir
- De: Vivian Gornick
- Narrado por: Vivian Gornick
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another Gornick masterpiece
- De Lo en 01-14-23
De: Vivian Gornick
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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The Road from Coorain
- De: Jill Ker Conway
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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In the 1930s, Jill Ker's parents bought a sheep farm on the western plains of New South Wales. In 1944, they lost nearly everything when a drought hit. Forced to leave Coorain, 11-year-old Jill and her mother settled in Sydney where Jill struggled to find a place for herself among Sydney's elite. Her story, both a chronicle of life in the Australian outback and the odyssey of a brilliant woman fighting the constraints of her time, offers a loving view of Australia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So glad I (finally) listened to my aunt
- De T. en 07-12-13
De: Jill Ker Conway
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Patriarchy Blues
- Reflections on Manhood
- De: Frederick Joseph
- Narrado por: Preston Butler III, Novell Jordan
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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In this thought-provoking collection of essays, poems, and short reflections, Frederick Joseph contemplates these questions and more as he explores issues of masculinity and patriarchy from both a personal and cultural standpoint. From fatherhood, and “manning up” to abuse and therapy, he fearlessly and thoughtfully tackles the complex realities of men’s lives today and their significance for society, lending his insights as a Black man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- De BlissfullyT en 11-15-23
De: Frederick Joseph
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Manhood for Amateurs
- The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Michael Chabon
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as a father, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible
- De Ken en 10-14-09
De: Michael Chabon
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A Body, Undone
- Living On after Great Pain
- De: Christina Crosby
- Narrado por: Christina Crosby
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a 17 mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her 50th birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary writer
- De Professor en 01-20-24
De: Christina Crosby
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Trashcan of Ideology
Deeply myopic point of view. Full of ideological pitfalls resulting in an irony of what is supposedly opposed, namely, an unexamined and unethical way of being in the world.
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