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Palaces for the People
- How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
- De: Eric Klinenberg
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 195
In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed. These are places where people gather, making friends across group lines and strengthening the entire community. Klinenberg calls this the “social infrastructure”: When it is strong, neighborhoods flourish; when it is neglected, as it has been in recent years, families and individuals must fend for themselves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Okayyy
- De K en 04-11-19
- Palaces for the People
- How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
- De: Eric Klinenberg
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
Moving analysis of public life and the foundations
Revisado: 08-15-22
I enjoyed listening and learning about spatial justice, community, and what it would take to bolster spaces of disinvestment as well as create opportunities for a greater union in our divided times.
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How to Be an Antiracist
- De: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrado por: Ibram X. Kendi
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,650
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,680
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11,559
From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.
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3 out of 5 stars
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80% of the useful content is in the first 1-2 chapters
- De Anonymous User en 03-09-20
- How to Be an Antiracist
- De: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrado por: Ibram X. Kendi
An individual confession with a policy message
Revisado: 07-12-22
I had initially taken the title too literally and was expecting something of a procedural instruction book. I was thankfully wrong. Kendi's work is deeply personal, and listening, you feel more of a one-on-one vibe. Meanwhile, you're receiving a history lesson on racism (and assimilationism). Kendi also helped me think through the different frameworks of racist, assimilationist, and anti racist ideas to more precisely understand myself (white, hetero, male) and society. Ultimately, it's a personal and historical reflection that culminates in a call to action to change racist policies and create an anti racist society.
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The Whiteness of Wealth
- How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans - and How We Can Fix It
- De: Dorothy A. Brown
- Narrado por: Karen Murray
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 530
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 462
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 455
Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she’d seen how racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast: Tax law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered was green. But when Brown sat down to prepare tax returns for her parents, she found something strange: James and Dottie Brown, a plumber and a nurse, seemed to be paying an unusually high percentage of their income in taxes. When Brown became a law professor, she set out to understand why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking and very accessible
- De Simone en 05-16-21
- The Whiteness of Wealth
- How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans - and How We Can Fix It
- De: Dorothy A. Brown
- Narrado por: Karen Murray
Eyes "white" opened
Revisado: 06-24-22
Well researched and written. Dorothy Brown breaks open opaque tax policy in manner that shines light on ongoing and persistent economic inequality experienced by Black Americans. Basically, she conducts a thorough tax audit on whiteness.
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The Sum of Us
- What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- De: Heather McGhee
- Narrado por: Heather McGhee
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,788
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,325
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,296
Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book but Recording tech is poor. Glitches
- De Jeannepup en 02-25-21
- The Sum of Us
- What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- De: Heather McGhee
- Narrado por: Heather McGhee
This is America
Revisado: 06-07-21
McGhee engages the reader/listener emotionally with personal vignettes from her life, interviews, and participant observation while providing extensive, original and existing, systematic qualitative and quantitative research as academic evidence for her argument against the zero sum game (i.e., white supremacist systems).
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Good Omens
- De: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40,759
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35,584
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35,562
The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At long last!!
- De Mike From Mesa en 11-21-09
- Good Omens
- De: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
Monty Python meets the apocalypse !
Revisado: 09-11-18
Excellent narration! Made the impossible easy to follow and entertaining. Gaiman and Pratchett create a hilarious story with some serious thoughtfulness.
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There There
- A Novel
- De: Tommy Orange
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo, y otros
- Duración: 8 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,779
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,810
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,786
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommend.
- De Rachel S en 07-09-18
- There There
- A Novel
- De: Tommy Orange
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo, Kyla Garcia
Hard truths through storytelling
Revisado: 08-06-18
From quality of writing to the readers and the telling of factual historical and contemporary truths through the vehicle of fiction, this is a must listen. Orange blends what seems a combination of sociological research and personal experiences/astute observations in the stories of many characters (all of whom are relatable even through their flaws) in a manner that is informative of Native American reality in an engaging writing style interspersed with lines that can stand alone as poetry.
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