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African-American Studies Audiobooks

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    The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

    by Michelle Obama ...
    Narrated by Michelle Obama ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 3 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word AlbumWinner of the 2020 Audie Award for Autobiography/MemoirAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwideTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARTHE SUNDAY TIMES, MEMOIR OF THE YEAR</stro... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Freedom is a Constant Struggle

    Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Narrated by Coleen Marlo, Angela Y. Davis ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness

    by Michelle Alexander ...
    Narrated by Karen Chilton ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 14 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander, read by Karen Chilton.Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    So You Want to Talk about Race

    by Ijeoma Oluo ...
    Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaA current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk about Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Ain't I a Woman

    Black Women and Feminism 2nd Edition

    by Bell Hooks ...
    Narrated by Adenrele Ojo ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, Hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Disordered Cosmos

    A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

    by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ...
    Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Finalist for the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & TechnologyA Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of 2021An Entropy ... Read more

    $55.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Women, Race & Class

    Penguin Modern Classics

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Narrated by Natalie Simpson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 16 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation.Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, Davis examines the racism and class prejudice inherent ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Sister Outsider

    by Audre Lorde ...
    Narrated by Pippa Bennett-Warner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Need to Be Whole

    by Wendell Berry ...
    Narrated by Nick Offerman ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 55 min

    Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he 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. Without historical understanding of this practice of ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Sisters of the Yam

    Black Women and Self-Recovery 2nd Edition

    by Bell Hooks ...
    Narrated by Adenrele Ojo ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle, hooks articulates the link between self-recovery and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

    by M. Chris Fabricant ...
    Narrated by Chris Henry Coffey ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in “expert witnesses” and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today, condemned by junk science. In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Refusing Compulsory Sexuality

    A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

    by Sherronda J. Brown, Grace B Freedom ...
    Narrated by Yu-Li Alice Shen ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Healing Justice Lineages

    Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

    by Cara Page, Erica Woodland ...
    Narrated by Sanya Simmons ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    A profound offering and call to action—collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineagesWe reclaim the power, resilience, and innovation of our ancestors through this book. To embody their wisdom across centuries and generations is to continue their legacy ... Read more

    $54.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

    by Robin D.G. Kelley ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

    by Jesse McCarthy ...
    Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 6 min

    Even as our world has suffered through successive upheavals, Jesse McCarthy contends, "something was happening in the world of culture: a surging and unprecedented visibility at every level of black art making." Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? reckons with this resurgence, arguing for the central role of art and intellectual culture in an age of widening inequality and moral crisis. McCarthy ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

    by James D. Anderson ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 51 min

    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, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters. ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Soul Care in African American Practice

    by Barbara Peacock ...
    Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    - 2021 Christianity Today Award of Merit (Tie)-Spiritual Formation In the midst of our hectic, overscheduled lives, caring for the soul is imperative. Now, more than ever, we need to pause-intentionally-and encounter the Divine. Soul care director Barbara Peacock illustrates a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective. She reflects on how these ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    In My Grandmother’s House

    Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit

    by Yolanda Pierce ...
    Narrated by Yolanda Pierce ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    What if the most steadfast faith you'll ever encounter comes from a Black grandmother? The church mothers who raised Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity, were busily focused on her survival. In a world hostile to Black women's bodies and spirits, they had to be. Born on a former cotton plantation and having fled the terrors of the South, Pierce's grandmother raised her in ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Narrated by C. Riley Snorton ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism

    by Joseph Darda ...
    Narrated by Andrew Joseph Perez ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    by Sojourner Truth ...
    Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s. With the strength of her spirituality, she overcame obstacles to become a leading abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Published originally in 1850 and later updated, The Narrative of Sojourner ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Progressive Dystopia

    Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco

    by Savannah Shange ...
    Narrated by Diana Blue ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers at just over three percent. The Robeson Justice Academy opened to serve the few remaining low-income neighborhoods of the city, with the mission of offering liberatory, social justice-themed education to youth of color. While it features a progressive curriculum, ... Read more

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    What the Hell Is Wrong with You Black People?: Do Black Americans Understand they are Facing Self-Destruction?

    by Raymond Sturgis ...
    Narrated by John Flore ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 11 min

    The condition of African Americans today is quite alarming and disturbing. African Americans have an enormous amount of contributions from their ancestors to advance in positive and productive directions. However, black Americans' advancement in technology, science, music, arts, and business is overshadowed by black-on-black crime and poor family values. What is the reason why so many black people ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Peniel Joseph: Dark Days, Bright Nights

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    In observance of Martin Luther King Day in 2010, Ray Suarez speaks with historian Peniel Joseph about his book Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial