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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Evicted by Matthew Desmond includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the American Dream, home, and family. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Princeton sociology professor Matthew Desmond studies the subject of eviction as a product of the relationship between the rich and the poor. Exploring the issue of housing stability from the perspective of those with and without power, Desmond follows two landlords who own rental property worth millions of dollars and their less affluent tenants. Personal stories, statistical analysis, and history combine to present a portrait of the tension that emerges between the accumulation of wealth and the right to a safe and stable home.
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General5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 240
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 242
Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine then to crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a Black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over 15 years; never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling
- De Jean en 06-18-17
De: Susan Burton, y otros
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How We Can Win
- Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
- De: Kimberly Jones
- Narrado por: Kimberly Jones
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 113
In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions - those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves in the fight against a system that is still rigged.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Valid points made, but contradictory as well...
- De Julian C. Young en 01-28-22
De: Kimberly Jones
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The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- De: David K. Shipler
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 15 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 150
Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Textbook Perfect Discussion of the Problem
- De Cynthia en 07-28-12
De: David K. Shipler
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It Was All a Dream
- A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America
- De: Reniqua Allen
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They witnessed their elders fight to escape cycles of oppression for more promising prospects, largely to no avail. Today, in this post-Obama era, they face a critical turning point. Interweaving her own experience, Allen shares surprising stories of hope and ingenuity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great statistics and facts
- De Eve en 05-18-19
De: Reniqua Allen
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In Our Backyard
- Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It
- De: Nita Belles
- Narrado por: Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
Human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. Nor is it something that just happens to "other people," such as runaways or the disenfranchised. Even kids in your own neighborhood can fall victim. But they don't have to.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good entry to learning about HT
- De Justicepirate en 12-05-16
De: Nita Belles
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Your Turn
- How to Be an Adult
- De: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Narrado por: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Duración: 20 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
What does it mean to be an adult? In the 20th century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave home, marry, and have children. Since then, every generation has been held to those same markers. Yet so much has changed about the world and living in it since that sequence was formulated. All of those markers are choices, and they’re all valid, but any one person’s choices along those lines do not make them more or less an adult.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not the book that was advertised
- De M. Rogers en 04-13-21
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The Black Male Handbook
- A Blueprint for Life
- De: Kevin Powell
- Narrado por: Ezra Knight, Kevin R. Free, Glymph Glymph
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 268
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
An NAACP Image Award nominee, The Black Male Handbook is an impassioned call to end the problems facing today's Black men. Author and activist Kevin Powell offers insights on steering away from violence and toward a more responsible manhood. A new climate is rising in the Black community. Despite a shared thirst for cutting-edge opportunities and fresh directions, today's hiphop generation is still plagued by many long-standing problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome and very useful book.
- De Derek en 06-10-18
De: Kevin Powell
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American Spirit
- Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
- De: Taya Kyle, Jim DeFelice
- Narrado por: Taya Kyle
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
From Taya Kyle, New York Times best-selling author of American Wife and widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle, an inspiring collection of stories, both personal and drawn from American history, that showcase the resilience of the “American spirit”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just love Taya Kyle!
- De Rebecka R. Murray en 05-14-19
De: Taya Kyle, y otros
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Letters to an Incarcerated Brother
- Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
- De: Hill Harper
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
After the publication of the best-selling Letters to a Young Brother, accomplished actor and speaker Hill Harper began to receive an increasing number of moving letters from inmates who yearned for a connection with a successful role model. With disturbing statistics on African-American incarceration on his mind (one in six black men were incarcerated as of 2001, and one in three can now expect to go to prison some time in their lifetimes), Harper set out to address the specific needs of inmates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great read and a amazing book . every black man no matter where should read it.
- De Anonymous User en 06-25-24
De: Hill Harper
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To the End of June
- The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
- De: Cris Beam
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children in their search for a stable, loving family. Beam shows us the intricacies of growing up in the system - the back-and-forth with agencies, the rootless shuffling between homes, the emotionally charged tug between foster and birth parents.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good dissertation
- De Nim en 03-13-19
De: Cris Beam
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Street Poison
- The Biography of Iceberg Slim
- De: Justin Gifford
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of the "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for all Robert Beck fans.
- De JMKIII58 en 09-15-16
De: Justin Gifford