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America on Fire
- The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 60's
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
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What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire, the events of 2020 had clear precursors - and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past.
Even in the aftermath of Donald Trump, many Americans consider the decades since the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton’s sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history, taking us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of systemic racism and one of its primary consequences, the so-called urban riot. Hinton offers a critical corrective: The word "riot" was nothing less than a racist trope applied to events that can only be properly understood as rebellions - explosions of collective resistance to an unequal and violent order. As she suggests, if rebellion and the conditions that precipitated it never disappeared, the optimistic story of a post-Jim Crow United States no longer holds.
Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Crime,” sending militarized police forces into impoverished Black neighborhoods. Facing increasing surveillance and brutality, residents threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers, plundered local businesses, and vandalized exploitative institutions. Hinton draws on exclusive sources to uncover a previously hidden geography of violence in smaller American cities, from York, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, to Stockton, California.
The central lesson from these eruptions - that police violence invariably leads to community violence - continues to escape policymakers, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s enduring strife, America on Fire is also a warning: Rebellions will surely continue until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality.
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- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John Killian (for years afterward, his father searched for him in the ash), scientist Dave Johnston, and celebrated local curmudgeon Harry Truman. The lives of many others were forever changed.
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Nope
- De Prairie Girl en 05-04-18
De: Steve Olson
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The Story of English in 100 Words
- De: David Crystal
- Narrado por: David Crystal
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences, and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ("roe", in case you are wondering). Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ("loaf") to cutting edge ("twittersphere") and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ("and", "what") to the more fanciful ("fopdoodle"), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language.
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Random but entertaining
- De Sean en 04-01-13
De: David Crystal
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White Freedom
- The Racial History of an Idea
- De: Tyler Stovall
- Narrado por: Ako Mitchell
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the 18th century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white.
De: Tyler Stovall
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The Dead Are Arising
- The Life of Malcolm X
- De: Les Payne, Tamara Payne
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative.
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Much more depth than the Haley book.
- De CapitalHeel en 11-03-20
De: Les Payne, y otros
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Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- De: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners.
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Race for Profit
- De Hewti en 12-03-20
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Burning Down the House
- Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
- De: Julian E. Zelizer
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump "is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party." In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path toward an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies.
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No Tea Party?
- De Steven Nousen en 07-23-20
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The Family Roe
- An American Story
- De: Joshua Prager
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 18 h y 41 m
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Despite her famous pseudonym, no one knows the truth about “Jane Roe”, Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1970 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent years with Norma, discovered her personal papers, a previously unseen trove, and witnessed her final moments. With an explosive revelation at the core of the case, he tells her full story for the first time.
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Just wow.
- De Schmulie en 05-15-22
De: Joshua Prager
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Murder in Ancient Rome
- De: Emma Southon
- Narrado por: Sophie Ward
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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In ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common - murder. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside ancient Rome’s darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life and death and what it means to be human.
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Narration is stilted, author tries too hard
- De Allison Jackson en 07-13-21
De: Emma Southon
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Locked In
- The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
- De: John F. Pfaff
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent 15 years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations - the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons - tell us much less than we think.
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The true causes of Mass Incarceration
- De Ekaterinya Vladinakova en 04-17-20
De: John F. Pfaff
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Churchill's Shadow
- The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
- De: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 23 h y 48 m
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Winston Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during the most perilous period in British history, World War II, and is now perhaps even more beloved in America than in England. This revelatory book takes on Churchill in his entirety, separating the man from the myth that he so carefully cultivated.
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A few facts and a quote in context, would be nice.
- De Arlene en 01-30-22
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The Condemnation of Blackness
- Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- De: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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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 and crime in American society. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
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For a very select audience
- De Andrew en 12-28-17
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Ghettoside
- A True Story of Murder in America
- De: Jill Leovy
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of Black Americans murdered that year. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the scores of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case is assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shift.
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Wish I liked it more
- De Deborah en 03-05-15
De: Jill Leovy
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre America on Fire
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- Charles
- 08-26-22
Riot or Rebellion
This is a very informative book that tells the History of some of the key Rebellions in the USA against the oppressive living conditions in African Communities during the 60s and 70s.It gives details about the response of Racists Police Departments and City Officials. It discusses the planning of the protests by organizations and community leaders. It also discusses the spontaneous actions to Over-policing in the segregated ghetto communities.
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- Susie Wilson
- 06-14-22
A Good Choice
I suggest that this book be read and discussed in every public school American history class: there may be differences of opinion among readers, but that is what learning is all about.
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- Aaron Rudroff
- 08-10-21
Giant leaps of logic
The author takes giant leaps of faith of logic to relate and infer modern police malpractice to blatantly racist police policy from Jim Crowe until it’s end. There is a lot of shock and awe narrative that aids in demonizing the idea of the law is what makes us a civilized society.
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