audiobooks

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We want to do more than survive

abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom
2020
"Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists"--Amazon.

White fragility

why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
2018
"[Explores] the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality"--OCLC.

Kindred

2017
A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

2012
Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

The island of sea women

a novel
2020
The story of two friends from different backgrounds that begins during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s followed by World War II, the Korean War, and up through the era of cell phones and wet suits for women divers. When Mi-ja and Young-sook are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger.

How the Garcia girls lost their accents

2020
The story of the Garcia familiy's adjustment to life in the United States.

God help the child

a novel
Sweetness, a light-skinned African American, never gave her dark-skinned daughter, Bride, her full love because of the hue of her skin. As an adult, Bride is beautiful and successful, but she has never overcome that childhood rejection, something Sweetness is only now coming to understand.

Code

Tory Brennan and the Virals get caught up in a geocaching adventure that leads them to a cache containing a bomb that they must locate before it explodes.

Stamped from the beginning

the definitive history of racist ideas in America
2017
"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists"--OCLC.

Pimsleur Spanish 2

2020
Presents thirty Spanish language audio lessons, covering vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.

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