African Studies

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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 54 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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    • The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands
    • By: Eric Sean Crawford
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the 20th-century American South....

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    • From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
    • By: Zeinab Badawi
    • Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective.

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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 746 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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    • How the Left Is Selling a Fake Race War
    • By: Wilfred Reilly
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 625 ratings
    • In Hate Crime Hoax, Wilfred Reilly examines over 100 widely publicized incidents of so-called hate crimes that never actually happened. Reilly debunks these fabricated incidents and explores why so many Americans are driven to fake hate crimes....

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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 3,016 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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    • Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
    • By: Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • American Apartheid shows how the Black ghetto was created by Whites during the first half of the 20th century in order to isolate growing urban Black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today....

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    • The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 691 ratings
    • Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions....

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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 197 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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    • 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 943 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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    • Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls
    • By: Monique W. Morris
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout....

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    • By: J.A. Rogers
    • Narrated by: Will Stauff
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In the vibrant tapestry of humanity, "Nature Knows No Color-Line" unravels the threads of shared ancestry across continents and time. This groundbreaking work challenges rigid racial lines, exposing the myths of purity and celebrating the interconnectedness of our roots.

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    • The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
    • By: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,712 ratings
    • This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects....

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    • By: Anne Moody
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 660 ratings
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 851 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • By: Wendell Berry
    • Narrated by: Nick Offerman
    • Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • The Need to Be Whole continues the work Wendell Berry began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others....

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