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Them
- A Novel
- By: Nathan McCall
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 333
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 330
Barlowe, a single African-American in his 40s, shares a ramshackle house with his 20-something nephew in the old Fourth Ward of downtown Atlanta. When Sean and Sandy, a white married couple from Philadelphia, buy and renovate the house next door in anticipation of a neighborhood "turnaround", everyone tries at first to go about their daily business. But fear and suspicion begin to build as more and more new whites move in and make changes, and once familiar people and places disappear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A look at Race Issues
- By Sharon R Wilson on 08-28-09
- Them
- A Novel
- By: Nathan McCall
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Gentrification—Caesar
Reviewed: 10-21-23
I teach this text in my Black Authors course. It’s an excellent text not only for its literary merit, but it also serves as a good segue to introduce students to critical theory, such as social constructivism and so much more. McCall strategically uses “flags” as an antagonist, and I would argue, a metonym—like Caesar—for the US government. For some reason, I didn’t feel the reading voice for Tyrone fit the character.
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