Casey McConnell
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
- And Other Conversations About Race
- By: Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Narrated by: Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,938
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,913
The classic, New York Times best-selling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues? This fully revised edition is essential listening for anyone seeking to understand dynamics of race and racial inequality in America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Key Takeaway: Everything is White People's Fault
- By David Larson on 09-07-17
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
- And Other Conversations About Race
- By: Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Narrated by: Beverly Daniel Tatum
Essential
Reviewed: 02-28-23
Foundational, important, essential. Anyone who is interested in anti-racism, this should be a centerpiece of your learning.
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How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- By: Clint Smith
- Narrated by: Clint Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,637
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,251
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,237
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
- By Kelvin Dixon on 06-08-21
- How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- By: Clint Smith
- Narrated by: Clint Smith
A must read
Reviewed: 01-09-23
Beautiful. Engrossing. Necessary.
Clint Smith is a phenomenal writer and evokes emotion on every page. Truly an astounding work.
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Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20,906
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18,169
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18,035
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, articulate, highly listenable.
- By GM on 08-05-20
- Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
Phenomenal
Reviewed: 12-14-22
This is a life changing book. The kind that shakes the very foundation of life and how we as Americans render the past and reckon with the future. This book should be standard reading for every American. Isabel Wilkerson is a national treasure and her writing is so gentle and yet so full of power. This is the kind of book that stays with you long after reading.
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The Witch's Heart
- By: Genevieve Gornichec
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,010
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,679
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,670
When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology. Angrboda’s story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a man who reveals himself to be Loki, and her initial distrust of him transforms into a deep and abiding love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterful Exploration of Norse Myth
- By Catherine A Rector on 02-19-21
- The Witch's Heart
- By: Genevieve Gornichec
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Do yourself a favor and listen
Reviewed: 11-07-21
Exquisite, emotive and entrancing. Gorgeously written. From the first sentence till the very last, characters are flawed and also worthy of the reader’s compassion. This retold Norse tale of the birth of the children that will bring on Ragnarok is told the way they should be, showcasing the complexities of the characters in all of their damnation and glory.
Look forward to more writing from Genevieve Gornichec in the future. Expertly narrated by Jayne Entwistle.
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Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56,001
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 50,471
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50,240
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refined writing with an intimate performance
- By Michael - Audible Editor on 04-11-18
- Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
Exquisite and the definition of empowerment
Reviewed: 01-14-19
"child, make another"
I don't even have words for how profoundly beautiful the book is. Mastery in every way, the writing, the pacing, the story. It should resonate with every person who has lived through dark times, the unexplained darkness of being a woman, a mother, a pain that has spanned generations and retold its trauma since the beginning. The eternal tale of the rising of the power within.
I felt every sentence, every emotion as if they were my own. And Circe the "malevolent" witch of the Odyssey. Here's the real of it, a woman's truth is always hidden behind the tales of men.
This will be an all time favorite book for me. I wished it never ended.
Bonus points to the narration by Perdita Weeks. Absolute perfection.
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Dear America
- Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
- By: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 825
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 744
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 736
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “[T]he most famous undocumented immigrant in America”, tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Varga's story needs to be read in schools!
- By V R. Jasso on 10-12-18
- Dear America
- Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
- By: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
Important at all costs
Reviewed: 10-24-18
There are important reads and then there are IMPORTANT at all costs reads. And this book/memoir/manifesto is absolutely required listening. So many people have absolutely no clue as to how immigration works or how the industrial complexes profit from the disparity of human beings.
I found myself at times wrapped up in despair, as much despair as my very privileged white american born self can have in this, enveloped in the pain of belonging nowhere yet home somewhere. I found myself in tears so many times, remembering the pain my ex-husband, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, has been through, there were so many gut-wrenching parallels in Vargas's story to his story. What a gift this book is to a world that closes its eyes to the migration of human beings, exploits them and uses them as political fodder, from every side of the isle. What a gift it is to break open the truth and lay it bare for all to read. Jose Antonio Vargas, your bravery is to be commended and that bravery shouldn't have to be such, but in this case that's exactly what it is. Thank you for sharing your story, for those who don't have the means to do so. For those that can't or are stuck in the cycle of fear, which is very real fact based fear.
"What we're doing - waving a "Keep Out!" flag at the Mexican border while holding up a Help Wanted sign a hundred yards in - is deliberate. Spending billions building fences and walls, locking people up like livestock, deporting people to keep the people we don't want out, tearing families apart, breaking spirits - all of that serves a purpose." Brought me to my knees. THIS IS THE TRUTH. The truth of the country I was born in, TRUTH in the community and neighborhood I live in. Built upon the backs of migration of a border that crossed them...
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When They Call You a Terrorist
- A Black Lives Matter Memoir
- By: Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele, Angela Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Angela Davis - foreword, Angela Davis, Patrisse Cullors
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,140
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,003
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Story5 out of 5 stars 995
When They Call You a Terrorist is the essential audiobook for every conscientious American. From one of the cofounders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic audiobook memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone should listen!
- By Mary J. Bunker on 01-26-18
- When They Call You a Terrorist
- A Black Lives Matter Memoir
- By: Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele, Angela Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Angela Davis - foreword, Angela Davis, Patrisse Cullors
Required reading
Reviewed: 08-06-18
Do you ever have one of those times when you finish a book and you can’t move forward with anything else? This. Is. It. Perhaps one of the most heartbreaking and gut wrenching reads I have ever read and no matter how open your eyes are to the truth, I as a cis white woman will never ever understand being ripped from my bed in the middle of the night simply because of the color of my skin. This should be required reading for all people.
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