
Original Sins
The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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Robin Miles
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Eve L. Ewing
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Eve L. Ewing
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Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.
“This book will transform the way you see this country.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
If all children could just get an education, the logic goes, they would have the same opportunities later in life. But this historical tour de force makes it clear that the opposite is true: The U.S. school system has played an instrumental role in creating and upholding racial hierarchies, preparing children to expect unequal treatment throughout their lives.
In Original Sins, Ewing demonstrates that our schools were designed to propagate the idea of white intellectual superiority, to “civilize” Native students and to prepare Black students for menial labor. Education was not an afterthought for the Founding Fathers; it was envisioned by Thomas Jefferson as an institution that would fortify the country’s racial hierarchy. Ewing argues that these dynamics persist in a curriculum that continues to minimize the horrors of American history. The most insidious aspects of this system fall below the radar in the forms of standardized testing, academic tracking, disciplinary policies, and uneven access to resources.
By demonstrating that it’s in the DNA of American schools to serve as an effective and underacknowledged mechanism maintaining inequality in this country today, Ewing makes the case that we need a profound reevaluation of what schools are supposed to do, and for whom. This book will change the way people understand the place we send our children for eight hours a day.
*Includes a downloadable PDF containing a bibliography, notes, and images described in the book.
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It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.
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Belly of the Beast
- The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
- De: Da'Shaun L. Harrison, Kiese Laymon - foreword
- Narrado por: Da'Shaun L. Harrison
- Duración: 3 h y 29 m
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To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are subject to socio-politically sanctioned discrimination, abuse, condescension, and trauma.
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Beautifully written, complex and compelling
- De lena carew en 10-16-24
De: Da'Shaun L. Harrison, y otros
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Still Life with Bones
- Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
- De: Alexa Hagerty
- Narrado por: Rose Akroyd
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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Throughout Guatemala’s thirty-six-year armed conflict, state forces killed more than two hundred thousand people. Argentina’s military dictatorship disappeared up to thirty thousand people. In the wake of genocidal violence, families of the missing searched for the truth. Young scientists joined their fight against impunity. Gathering evidence in the face of intimidation and death threats, they pioneered the field of forensic exhumation for human rights.
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Disturbing and Hard to Listen To
- De Alain R Gardner en 06-09-23
De: Alexa Hagerty
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A Man of Bad Reputation
- The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction
- De: Drew A. Swanson
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection, Governor William W. Holden's impeachment, and the early unwinding of Reconstruction in North Carolina.
De: Drew A. Swanson
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Homes for Living
- The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
- De: Jonathan Tarleton
- Narrado por: Max Newland
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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In Homes for Living, urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces listeners to two social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Longtime residents of St. James Towers and Southbridge Towers lock horns over whether to maintain the rules that have kept their homes affordable for decades or to cash out at great personal profit, thereby denying future generations the same opportunity to build thriving communities rooted in mutual care.
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A passionate, knowledgeable, and fair parable on the topic of housing and ownership that resulted in work of literary art.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-03-25
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Talk to Me
- Lessons from a Family Forged by History
- De: Rich Benjamin
- Narrado por: Rich Benjamin
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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Rich Benjamin’s mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family living a comfortable life in Port-au-Prince. Her mother was a schoolteacher, her father a populist hero—a labor leader and politician. The first true champion of the black masses, he eventually became the country’s president in 1957. But two weeks after his inauguration, that life was shattered. Soldiers took Danielle’s parents at gunpoint and put them on a plane to New York, a coup hatched by the Eisenhower administration. Danielle and her siblings were kidnapped, and ultimately smuggled out of the country.
De: Rich Benjamin
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Land Power
- Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
- De: Michael Albertus
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In Land Power, political scientist Michael Albertus shows that who owns the land determines whether a society will be equal or unequal, whether it will develop or decline, and whether it will safeguard or sacrifice its environment.
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Great stories of what countries are doing that we never hear about. This is led by working with the people. Excellent…..
- De Hal en 02-24-25
De: Michael Albertus
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Pseudoscience
- An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
- De: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of aliens. Did you know, for example, that you can tell a person’s future by touching their butt? Rumpology. It’s a thing, but not really. Or that Stanley Kubrick made a fake moon landing film for the US government? Except he didn’t. Or that spontaneous human combustion is real? It ain’t, but it can be explained scientifically.
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Same old stories…waste of time to read.
- De Kelly en 05-20-25
De: Lydia Kang MD, y otros
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Strike
- Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
- De: Sarah E. Bond
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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From plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to bakers withholding bread, this is the first book to explore how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices—and their labor—acknowledged. Sarah E. Bond explores Ancient Rome from a new angle to show that the history of labor conflicts and collective action goes back thousands of years, uncovering a world far more similar to our own than we realize.
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Disappointing
- De Theresa Porter en 03-07-25
De: Sarah E. Bond
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Last Seen
- The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
- De: Judith Giesberg
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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Of all the many horrors of slavery, the cruelest was the separation of families in slave auctions. Spouses and siblings were sold away from one other. Young children were separated from their mothers. Fathers were sent down river and never saw their families again. As soon as slavery ended in 1865, family members began to search for one another, in some cases persisting until as late as the 1920s. They took out advertisements in newspapers and sent letters to the editor. Judith Giesberg draws on the archive that she founded to compile these stories in a narrative form for the first time.
De: Judith Giesberg
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Viral Justice
- How We Grow the World We Want
- De: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrado por: Ruha Benjamin
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day.
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Fantastic book!
- De Avie Kearney en 05-21-23
De: Ruha Benjamin
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How to Sell Out
- The (Hidden) Cost of Being a Black Writer
- De: Chad Sanders
- Narrado por: Chad Sanders
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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In the summer of 2020, when the nation was erupting in protest over the murder of George Floyd, Chad Sanders was quietly celebrating for selfish reasons. Why? After years of struggling to get his footing as a writer, he’d finally landed a New York Times op-ed. He wrote an essay about the hollow messages of concern he’d been receiving from white friends and colleagues. It went viral, and in the years that followed, he built a solid career as a creator—of books, podcasts, TV shows, and films—by mining his most painful experiences of being Black in America.
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Great and Honest
- De Danielle en 02-13-25
De: Chad Sanders
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The Devil You Know
- A Black Power Manifesto
- De: Charles M. Blow
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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From journalist and New York Times best-selling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action for Black Americans to amass political power and fight white supremacy.
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A radical plan for Black liberation
- De Elizabeth en 01-27-21
De: Charles M. Blow
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President McKinley
- Architect of the American Century
- De: Robert W. Merry
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 19 h y 45 m
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Republican President William McKinley transformed America during his two terms as president. Although he does not register large in either public memory or in historians' rankings, in this revealing account, Robert W. Merry offers "a fresh twist on the old tale . . . a valuable education on where America has been and, possibly, where it is going" (The National Review).
De: Robert W. Merry
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We Lived on the Horizon
- A Novel
- De: Erika Swyler
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Saint Enita Malovis feels the end of her life and decades of work as a bio-prosthetist approaching. The lone practitioner of her art, Enita is determined to preserve her legacy and decides to create a physical being, called Nix. In the midst of her project, a fellow Sainted is brutally murdered and the city AI inexplicably erases the event from its data.
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So dull that everything went in one ear...
- De NMwritergal en 01-16-25
De: Erika Swyler
Required reading.
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Jaw dropper
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A must read for educators and everyone!
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