Urban Poverty
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Poverty, by America
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- By Alonzo Nightjar on 03-27-23
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Poverty, by America
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-21-23
- Language: English
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis
- Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
- By: Thomas J. Sugrue
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s.
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis
- Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-08-20
- Language: English
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Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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Former Property Manager
- By Charla on 05-18-16
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-01-16
- Language: English
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- By: Elizabeth Hinton
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in 11 African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.
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Powerful
- By myurko on 12-29-16
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-06-16
- Language: English
- How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- By: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away.
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- By Dr. on 06-14-12
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-07-12
- Language: English
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two romances - Jessica's dizzying infatuation with a hugely successful young heroin dealer, Boy George; and Coco's first love with Jessica's little brother, Cesar - Random Family is the story of young people trying to outrun their destinies.
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- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-19
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
- In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….
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Denim Diaries 5
- Raising Kane
- By: Darrien Lee
- Narrated by: Ryan Nikko
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander is growing up in a single-parent home after her mother abandons the family. Her father is forced to take on two jobs to support his family, and the responsibility of caring for her two younger siblings is placed on Kane. She loves her family, but can’t help but feel like she’s missing out on life as a teenager. Kane shares her feelings with her father, but he insists that she should put her family ahead of her social life. When the pressure in her home becomes too much to bear, Kane decides to run away; however, she doesn’t make it far.
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Denim Diaries 5
- Raising Kane
- Narrated by: Ryan Nikko
- Series: Denim Diaries Series, Book 5
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-23-21
- Language: English
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Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander is growing up in a single-parent home after her mother abandons the family. Her father is forced to take on two jobs to support his family, and the responsibility of caring for her two younger siblings is placed on Kane....
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- By: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad.
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Insightful. A Must Read For Suburban Americans.
- By WitchCrafter on 06-01-21
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- By: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets. And it brilliantly shows what we stand to gain when we embrace our humanity and move toward evidence-based people-first, community-driven solutions, offering social analysis, economic and political histories, and the real stories of unhoused people.
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Comprehensive examination of homelessness
- By Theodore on 06-17-24
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country.
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NO PDF! NO CHARTS!
- By P. Dean on 06-02-23
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 02-21-23
- Language: English
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Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the 20th century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents.
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Conservatives hate liberals will love
- By vic on 02-03-20
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-14-20
- Language: English
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....
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Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- By: Thomas Abt
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities. Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a crime-fighter, Abt proposes a relentless focus on violence itself.
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Great read from a guy who committed his life to reducing violence
- By Dan Goodwin on 08-09-20
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Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-25-19
- Language: English
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Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- By: Jennifer Toth
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels, and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.
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As a sociologist, I found this story quite compelling.
- By Chris on 10-21-24
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-15-19
- Language: English
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people....
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The People of the Abyss
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: John Stanbridge
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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"The People of the Abyss" (1903) is a work by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several months, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The conditions he experienced and wrote about, were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.
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As Fresh Today as a Century Ago
- By Rick on 12-10-17
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The People of the Abyss
- Narrated by: John Stanbridge
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-24-17
- Language: English
- "The People of the Abyss" (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the...
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Amazing Grace
- The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
- By: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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The children we meet through the deepening friendships that evolve between Janathan Kozol and their families defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented on TV and in newspapers. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with painful clarity about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. "It's not like being in a jail," says 15-year-old Isabel. "It's more like being hidden."
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The Roots of Change are in Education
- By T. C. Pile on 06-05-20
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Amazing Grace
- The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 02-19-10
- Language: English
- Amazing Grace is a book about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation....
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- By: Cloward Fox Piven
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the US welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.
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Regulating the Poor
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-21
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....
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The Death Gap
- How Inequality Kills
- By: David A. Ansell
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In
The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients.
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Data-driven explanation for structural inequality
- By Kimberly Robinson on 04-11-18
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The Death Gap
- How Inequality Kills
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 05-23-17
- Language: English
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The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....
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Fire in the Ashes
- Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
- By: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrated by: Keythe Farley
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood. For nearly 50 years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation.
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A hauting but beautiful book
- By LAM X LUU on 10-01-14
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Fire in the Ashes
- Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
- Narrated by: Keythe Farley
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 08-28-12
- Language: English
- In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace....
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Crime in Black America
- A Guide on Confronting Pathology, Combating Systemic Injustice, and Improving Mental Health
- By: DC Cannon
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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"Blacks are 13% but commit half of the crime!" Using statistics, facts, charts, arguments never heard before, and common sense, this book factually challenges many firmly held beliefs, such as “Blacks make up 13% of the population but commit half of the violent crimes.” Offering a comprehensive examination of street crime in America's inner cities, it navigates diverse topics with clarity. Drawing from various disciplines, the author explores how mental illness, systemic racism, black apathy, drugs, family breakdown, American values, and the financial gains from illicit activities fuel ...
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Crime in Black America
- A Guide on Confronting Pathology, Combating Systemic Injustice, and Improving Mental Health
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-22-24
- Language: English
- "Blacks are 13% but commit half of the crime!" Using statistics, facts, charts, arguments never heard before, and common sense, this book factually...
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Planet of Slums
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory. Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt?
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A little dated ring when was originally published
- By Terence A. Dodge on 07-05-22
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Planet of Slums
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-23-20
- Language: English
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The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....
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