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The Black and the Blue

A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America¿s Law Enforcement

de Matthew Horace, Ron Harris ...

Narrado por Matthew Horace ...

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9 hora 29 minutos

During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his service- when Horace found himself face down on the ground ... Leer más

$27.99 USD

During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his service- when Horace found himself face down on the ground
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The Fall of Affirmative Action

Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education

de Justin Driver ...

Narrado por Frits Zernike ...

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6 hora 25 minutos

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFor decades, affirmative action reshaped not just American higher education but the broader society, opening doors that had been closed for centuries and transforming who entered the pathways to power. But the Supreme Court in 2023 killed affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a decision hailed by the right as a triumph of ... Leer más

$20.00 USD

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFor decades, affirmative action reshaped not just American higher education but the broader society, opening doors that had been closed for centuries and transforming who entered the pathways to power. But the Supreme Court in 2023 killed affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a decision hailed by the right as a triumph of
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Blue-Coated Terror

Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality

de Jeffrey S. Adler ...

Narrado por Arnell Powell ...

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7 hora 42 minutos

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of policing in the United StatesContrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of policing in the United StatesContrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well

The Permanence of Racism

de Derrick Bell ...

Narrado por Brad Raymond ...

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8 hora 22 minutos

The groundbreaking work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice“Eerily prophetic, almost haunting, and yet at the same time oddly reassuring.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

The groundbreaking work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice“Eerily prophetic, almost haunting, and yet at the same time oddly reassuring.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism
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Gideon's Promise

A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice

de Jonathan Rapping ...

Narrado por Frank Gerard ...

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8 hora 49 minutos

A blueprint for criminal justice reform that lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a “fiercely client-based ethos” driven by values-based ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

A blueprint for criminal justice reform that lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a “fiercely client-based ethos” driven by values-based
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Mob And The Machine, The

White Supremacy, Propaganda, And Police

de James G. Edwards II ...

Narrado por Digital Voice Madison G ...

Series Audiolibro 4 - The Red Summer Chronicles
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7 hora 25 minutos

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Mob spilled the blood. The Machine buried the truth.In The Mob and the Machine: White Supremacy, Propaganda, and Policy, historian James G. Edwards II delivers a searing examination of how racial terror in America was not simply the work of rogue mobs—but a calculated system of violence, silence, and complicity.This powerful narrative unpacks the ... Leer más

$23.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Mob spilled the blood. The Machine buried the truth.In The Mob and the Machine: White Supremacy, Propaganda, and Policy, historian James G. Edwards II delivers a searing examination of how racial terror in America was not simply the work of rogue mobs—but a calculated system of violence, silence, and complicity.This powerful narrative unpacks the
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Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic

Atheists in American Public Life

de R. Laurence Moore, Isaac Kramnick ...

Narrado por Matthew Boston ...

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9 hora 2 minutos

From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence—especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence—especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws
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The Religion of Whiteness

How Racism Distorts Christian Faith

de Michael O. Emerson, Glenn E. Bracey II ...

Narrado por Tom Parks ...

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5 hora 36 minutos

Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the role that White Christian Nationalism plays in American society. As White Christian Nationalism has become a major force, and as racial and religious attitudes become increasingly aligned among whites—for example, the more likely you are to say that the decline of white people as a share of the population is "bad for society," the more likely you ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the role that White Christian Nationalism plays in American society. As White Christian Nationalism has become a major force, and as racial and religious attitudes become increasingly aligned among whites—for example, the more likely you are to say that the decline of white people as a share of the population is "bad for society," the more likely you
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By Hands Now Known

Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

de Margaret A. Burnham ...

Narrado por Diana Blue ...

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10 hora 59 minutos

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the
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Red Summer

The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

de Cameron McWhirter ...

Narrado por L.J. Ganser ...

Completo

12 hora 6 minutos

A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings.After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War.Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings.After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War.Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti
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Minorities

The Ongoing Fight for Equality in a Diverse World (3 in 1)

de Marcus Kline ...

Narrado por Sarah Donovan ...

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8 hora 12 minutos

This book contains three titles, which are the following:Child Soldiers - The use of child soldiers in armed conflicts represents one of the most tragic and pervasive human rights violations of our time. Children, often as young as eight or nine, are forcibly recruited or manipulated into participating in violent wars, often by rebel groups or government forces. These young individuals, deprived ... Leer más

$7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This book contains three titles, which are the following:Child Soldiers - The use of child soldiers in armed conflicts represents one of the most tragic and pervasive human rights violations of our time. Children, often as young as eight or nine, are forcibly recruited or manipulated into participating in violent wars, often by rebel groups or government forces. These young individuals, deprived
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Hidden Barriers in the Setup

de Sam Oputa ...

Narrado por Digital Voice Mike G ...

Completo

6 hora 5 minutos

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Nothing exposed the racism in the societies like the Covid19 did. Nothing exposed the hidden racism as the Covid19 did. Nothing exposed the racism in the healthcare as the Covid19 did. Nothing, not even all the preachments from times past, exposed the impact of racism on minority’s poor populations as the Covid19 did.What was hidden was exposed. The ... Leer más

$18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Nothing exposed the racism in the societies like the Covid19 did. Nothing exposed the hidden racism as the Covid19 did. Nothing exposed the racism in the healthcare as the Covid19 did. Nothing, not even all the preachments from times past, exposed the impact of racism on minority’s poor populations as the Covid19 did.What was hidden was exposed. The
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What if I Say the Wrong Thing?

de Verna Myers ...

Completo

4 hora 20 minutos

The book is a perfect handbook for anyone who is looking to develop the habits of culturally effective people. In this handy reference, you'll find answers to questions about all types of diversity issues and tips about how to practice culturally effective habits. And with the variety of suggested follow-ups and actions contained within it, you will better know how to handle your own situations. ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

The book is a perfect handbook for anyone who is looking to develop the habits of culturally effective people. In this handy reference, you'll find answers to questions about all types of diversity issues and tips about how to practice culturally effective habits. And with the variety of suggested follow-ups and actions contained within it, you will better know how to handle your own situations.
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White Lawyer Black Power

A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South

de Donald A. Jelinek ...

Narrado por Keith Sellon-Wright ...

Completo

11 hora 7 minutos

Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years.In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years.In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans
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Policing the Second Amendment

Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race

de Jennifer Carlson ...

Narrado por Teri Schnaubelt ...

Completo

8 hora 6 minutos

The United States is steeped in debates about guns. As discussions rage on, one issue has been overlooked—Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. How does this perspective shape what is considered lawful force? Who can engage in violence and who is punished for ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

The United States is steeped in debates about guns. As discussions rage on, one issue has been overlooked—Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. How does this perspective shape what is considered lawful force? Who can engage in violence and who is punished for
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Conduct Unbecoming

Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military

de Randy Shilts ...

Narrado por Daniel Henning ...

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38 hora 50 minutos

"A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history" of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On—The New York Times Book Review.Published during the same year the American military instituted Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark work of social justice and a searing ... Leer más

$34.99 USD

"A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history" of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On—The New York Times Book Review.Published during the same year the American military instituted Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark work of social justice and a searing
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To hell and back - A Policewoman's story

de Carolyn Pethick ...

Narrado por Molly Pethick ...

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4 hora 28 minutos

Carolyn Pethick joins the police academy at the age of 21, having always wanted to be a police officer her whole life. She completes her training and does well, and is then assigned to the Victoria Police Station. Here she soon finds out, as a woman, the other police officers, the men, are not eager to work with her.She is sent back and further between various departments, as the men play around ... Leer más

$10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Carolyn Pethick joins the police academy at the age of 21, having always wanted to be a police officer her whole life. She completes her training and does well, and is then assigned to the Victoria Police Station. Here she soon finds out, as a woman, the other police officers, the men, are not eager to work with her.She is sent back and further between various departments, as the men play around
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Fighting Time

de Amy Banks, Isaac Knapper ...

Narrado por Beresford Bennett, Christina Moore ...

Completo

8 hora 27 minutos

Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision on the evening of April 29, 1979, to walk several blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inchesfrom the safety of their hotel, they were accosted by two young men—a scuffle ensued, a shot was fired, and Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time is ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision on the evening of April 29, 1979, to walk several blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inchesfrom the safety of their hotel, they were accosted by two young men—a scuffle ensued, a shot was fired, and Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time is
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No Reasons to Die

de James Mcenge ...

Narrado por Marshall Chambers ...

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9 hora 40 minutos

"This story is a work of fiction, seen through the eyes of a black individual who has experienced the wrath and witnessed the hate in the eyes of a white officer. In America, there is a pledge to protect and serve all individuals, an oath to uphold the constitution and treat everyone equally. Therefore, I chose to interview ten black men at a bustling stop, waiting for their orders to be served. ... Leer más

$9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

"This story is a work of fiction, seen through the eyes of a black individual who has experienced the wrath and witnessed the hate in the eyes of a white officer. In America, there is a pledge to protect and serve all individuals, an oath to uphold the constitution and treat everyone equally. Therefore, I chose to interview ten black men at a bustling stop, waiting for their orders to be served.
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Chokehold

Policing Black Men

de Paul Butler ...

Narrado por JD Jackson ...

Completo

8 hora 53 minutos

Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Best Book of 2017“Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men.”—The Wash... ... Leer más

$35.99 USD

Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Best Book of 2017“Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men.”—The Wash...
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Racial Emotion at Work

Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace

de Tristin K. Green ...

Narrado por Linda Jones ...

Completo

6 hora 13 minutos

This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace—exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations and why we must confront it.Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race—and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace—exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations and why we must confront it.Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race—and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized
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Calculating Race

Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment

de Benjamin Wiggins ...

Narrado por Eric Jason Martin ...

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4 hora 12 minutos

In Calculating Race, Benjamin Wiggins analyzes the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. He illustrates how actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.Wiggins begins by tracing how the life insurance industry utilized ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

In Calculating Race, Benjamin Wiggins analyzes the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. He illustrates how actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.Wiggins begins by tracing how the life insurance industry utilized
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Hitler's American Model

The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

de James Q. Whitman ...

Narrado por James Anderson Foster ...

Completo

5 hora 36 minutos

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to
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He Calls Me By Lightning

The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

de S. Jonathan Bass ...

Narrado por Mirron Willis ...

Completo

13 hora 40 minutos

Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was
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