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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    • 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 44 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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    • 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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    • 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 722 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 881 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 2,994 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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    • 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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    • 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 95 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 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 26 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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    • 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 188 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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    • 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 607 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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    • 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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    • The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
    • By: James Oakes
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The consensus view of the Civil War - that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory - dies here....

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    • Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically....

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    • Advocating for Justice That Restores
    • By: Dominique DuBois Gilliard
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Mass incarceration has become a lucrative industry, and the criminal justice system is plagued with bias and unjust practices. And the church has unwittingly contributed to these problems. Dominique Gilliard explores the history and foundation of mass incarceration, examining Christianity's role in its evolution and expansion....

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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 621 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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    • 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 1,542 ratings
    • Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....

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