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    Invisible Man

    by Durthy A. Washington ...
    Narrated by Tim Wheeler ...
    series Cliffs Notes

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    The CliffsNotes study guide on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Reading Black Books

    How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just

    by Claude Atcho ...
    Narrated by Amir Abdullah ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 32 min

    Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American literature. Pastor and teacher Claude Atcho offers a theological approach to ten seminal texts of twentieth-century African American literature. Each chapter takes up ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

    by Ralph Ellison ...
    Narrated by John F. Callahan, Dominic Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    49 hours 5 min

    A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that trace the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decadesA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThese extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Playing In The Dark

    Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

    by Toni Morrison ...
    Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 9 min

    An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winnerMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Becoming Human

    Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

    by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson ...
    Narrated by Diana Blue ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open the rancorous debate between black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Durthy A. Washington ...
    Narrated by Kate Rudd ...
    series Cliffs Notes

    Unabridged

    2 hours 56 min

    The CliffsNotes study guide on Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Black Women Writers at Work

    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    Long out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the twentieth century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Sherley Anne Williams, the book highlights the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Saidiya V. Hartman ...
    Narrated by Nichole Marie ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 2 min

    In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    I Am Love: Do You Want Some?

    by Raymond Sturgis ...
    Narrated by Books with Voices ...

    Unabridged

    50 min

    Love is not complicated, and love is not problematic for those that believe in it. Marriages and relationship need to enrich their foundations with a love that stands up to impediments like jealousy, doubt, and financial complications. I AM LOVE, help individuals see the mistakes they made while dating and choose better partners for committed relationships. ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Black Like Who?

    20th anniversary edition

    by Rinaldo Walcott ...
    Narrated by Nigel Williams ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    Rinaldo Walcott’s groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused an uproar upon its publication. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music, and electronic media, Walcott’s book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness. As ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Souls of Black Folk, The

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    Narrated by Royal Jaye ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    “Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”The Souls of Black Folk was published in 1903 as a collection of essays from W.E.B. Du Bois, an African-American sociologist who wrote frequently about his experiences as a Black ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Narrated by David Dear ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    In the years after the Civil War, there was an unfortunate amount of importance placed on racial identity. The focus on the races of one’s parents remained a mainstay of culture due to systemic prejudice and racism, and was a way of continuing to enact violence against Black people. For many mixed-race people, it felt safer to try and shift into white society.It is in this environment that The ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Radical Vision

    A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry

    by Soyica Diggs Colbert ...
    Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics, with the theater operating as a "rehearsal room for [her] political and intellectual work." Colbert argues that the success of Raisin overshadows Hansberry's other contributions, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Minor Notes, Volume 1

    Narrated by Joshua Bennett, Jesse McCarthy, Tracy K. Smith, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 36 min

    **The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. SmithA Penguin Classic**Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    by Megan E. Ash ...
    Narrated by Kate Rudd ...
    series Cliffs Notes

    Unabridged

    3 hours 10 min

    The CliffsNotes study guide on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Read Until You Understand

    The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

    by Farah Jasmine Griffin ...
    Narrated by Farah Jasmine Griffin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 56 min

    A BRILLIANT SCHOLAR IMPARTS THE LESSONS BEQUEATHED BY THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND ITS REMARKABLE ARTISTS AND THINKERS. Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase “read until you understand,” a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the magnificence of Black life. ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Begin Again

    James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

    by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...
    Narrated by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2020A Washington Post N****otable Work of Non-Fiction 2020A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into beingThe struggles of Black... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Racism

    by Derek Maurice ...
    Narrated by Aidan Baumann ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 4 min

    HOW OUR WORLD WOULD LOOK LIKE IF WE ALL TREAT EACH OTHER THE SAME…When it comes to racism, I see three major causes you may also find relevant:#1 IT DOESN'T EXISTBelieve it or not, there are so many people out there, especially in the countries which are not as multi-cultural, who think that racism is not a problem or even that is doesn't exist.But what I found out later is that being unaware of ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Souls of Black Folk

    by W. E. B. DuBois ...
    Narrated by Richard Allen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    W. E. B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the paradoxical "double-consciousness" of African American ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Lenny Henry's What's So Great About...?

    And 4 other BBC documentaries

    by Lenny Henry ...
    Narrated by Lenny Henry ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 50 min

    A collection of BBC radio shows presented by comedian and actor Lenny Henry.Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, TV presenter: Lenny Henry is a multi-talented Renaissance man with a wide range of interests. But there are a few things (and people) he just doesn't get, despite their iconic status - and in ***What's So Great About...?***, he explores them to find out what makes them so appealing ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    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

  • Audiobook

    Lesson Before Dying, A

    by Durthy A. Washington ...
    Narrated by Luke Daniels ...
    series Cliffs Notes

    Unabridged

    3 hours 12 min

    The CliffsNotes study guide on Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Black Romantic Revolution

    Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery

    by Matt Sandler ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 29 min

    The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolition During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers-enslaved and free-allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their art to advocate for emancipation and to envision the end of slavery as a world-historical moment of possibility. These Black writers borrowed from the European tradition of Romanticism-lyric ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    BLACK FIRST LADY: CONVERSATIONS THROUGH THE YEARS

    by Benjamin Bailey ...
    Narrated by Liz Lovegood ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 47 min

    Michelle Obama legacy as FIRST LADY is sealed forever in America fabric. She exemplified strength, compassion, and beauty like any other first lady before her. When it came to social issues, people could feel her empathy and familiarity with their problems, and her honesty is what drew people to her. Michelle Obama conversations in this book show a side to the world, that I BECAME cannot compare ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial