African Studies

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    • Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
    • By: Dr. Thomas C. Oden PhD
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Christianity were explored and understood in Africa before they were in Europe....

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    • Searching for Tupac Shakur
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971–1996) was an American rap artist, actor, and social activist....

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    • A Celebration of Ancestor Worship, Herbs and Hoodoo, Ritual and Conjure
    • By: Stephanie Rose Bird
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • This is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to understand African American spirituality, shamanism, and indigenous spiritual practices and beliefs....

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • By: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox - translator
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world....

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    • Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
    • By: Walter Johnson
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself....

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    • Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
    • By: Audre Lorde
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature....

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    • Black Women and Feminism (2nd Edition)
    • By: bell hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 878 ratings
    • A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood....

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    • Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
    • By: James W. Loewen
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,993 ratings
    • This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....

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    • A Guide to Hoodoo Folk Magic
    • By: Hoodoo Sen Moise
    • Narrated by: Philip Alces
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • Conjure, also known as Hoodoo or Rootwork, is an old, powerful, and increasingly popular system of North American folk magic. Conjure's roots derive primarily from West and Central African spiritual traditions....

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    • The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
    • By: Jack D. Forbes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native-American and African-American peoples throughout the hemisphere....

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    • The History of Jim Crow
    • By: Jerrold M. Packard
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under legalized segregation: Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced racial "etiquette", these rules governed nearly every aspect of life - and outlined draconian punishments for infractions....

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    • Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
    • By: Angela Y. Davis
    • Narrated by: Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,538 ratings
    • Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: James D. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern Black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing Black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into Black commitment to education....

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    • By: James H. Cone
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In his reflections on God, Jesus, suffering, and liberation, James H. Cone relates the gospel message to the experience of the Black community. But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God....

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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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    • The Civil War in American Memory
    • By: David W. Blight
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. David Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale....

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