Kalani Carlson
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Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
- Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
- By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today.
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Great if you can bear the narration
- By Tintin on 09-13-21
- Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
- Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
- By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Praise for Venezuelan dictatorship inexcusable
Reviewed: 01-19-22
As a Native Hawaiian I appreciated the many important perspectives on settler-colonialism. I also really enjoyed the author’s previous book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. However, as I also have Venezuelan family suffering under the dictatorship as well as those forced into exile, the praise for the +20yr Chávez/Maduro regime is absolutely INEXCUSABLE.
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The Ministry for the Future
- A Novel
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
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The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.
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Great ideas, uneven narration
- By depthpsychologist on 12-09-20
Tedious
Reviewed: 03-09-21
I had heard lots of great recommendations in climate circles and as a marine scientist and hard sci-fi lover I thought this would be my kind of book...And yet this book tries to do way too much and ends up not doing much of anything well. As a novel it’s boring, as climate science it’s shallow, as climate policy it’s not a particularly helpful vision for dealing with the climate crisis, and it’s attempt to include countless global perspectives ends up weighed down by clichés and stereotypes. As a Native Hawaiian, the chapter from the “Hawaiian’s” perspective was particularly cringeworthy. And despite a full cast, there still ends up being many embarrassingly awful cross-racial accents.
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All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States - scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race - and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society.
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Saved My Life
- By Taylor Seamount on 11-07-21
- All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Sophia Bush, Kimberly Drew, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Janet Mock, Bahni Turpin, Alfre Woodard
Essential, educational, empowering
Reviewed: 09-22-20
The essays in this book are beautifully written and an important reminder of how critical community and diversity are in our ecosystems (whether in “nature” or in human institutions, as well as in their interplay). We need to pay attention to these leaders and do our own part to bring ourselves and our communities back into equilibrium with the natural world we depend on. We must become citizen lobbyists for this crisis!
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Lost Kingdom
- Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure
- By: Julia Flynn Siler
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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A thriving monarchy had ruled over Hawaii for generations. Taro fields and fish ponds had long sustained native Hawaiians but sugar plantations had been gradually subsuming them. This fractured, vulnerable Hawaii was the country that Queen Lili‘uokalani, or Lili‘u, inherited when she came to power at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Fascinating story, sparsely told
- By Great Tutu Kona on 01-17-12
- Lost Kingdom
- Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure
- By: Julia Flynn Siler
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Awful narrator, good history
Reviewed: 05-29-17
The narrator's pronunciation of Hawaiian words is awful and makes me cringe. She clearly didn't bother to do ANY research and doesn't have any familiarity with Hawaii! Just buy the book or brace yourself to weather the narration.
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