African American Women Studies

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    • By: Tyler Perry
    • Narrated by: Tyler Perry
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,943 ratings
    • Here's "Madea" Mabel Simmons telling her own story, dishing her memoirs and hard-won, hilarious wisdom in her own inimitable voice (with a little help from her friend Tyler Perry)....

    Regular price: $12.60

    • Black Women and Feminism (2nd Edition)
    • By: bell hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 948 ratings
    • A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood....

    Regular price: $17.19

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    • 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America
    • By: Karen Arrington
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • Channel your Black-girl magic: If you're feeling stuck or trapped by other people's expectations of what you can achieve, it's time to stop playing small and start redefining what success can mean for you....

    Regular price: $11.17

    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • By: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Margo Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac - here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle
    • By: Katherine McKittrick
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of Black women's geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, Black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
    • By: Jessica Marie Johnson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by Black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....

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    • Power and Politics in the Civil War South
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The story of the Confederate States of America has been told many times in heroic narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a different tale. Confederate Reckoning is the story of this political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy....

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    • Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
    • By: Tamura Lomax
    • Narrated by: Trei Taylor
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the Black church and in Black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define Black girlhood and womanhood....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
    • By: Sami Schalk
    • Narrated by: Renee Reed
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,845 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
    • By: C. Nicole Mason
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Born Bright, C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, is a story of reconciliation, constrained choices, and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles....

    Regular price: $14.61

    • Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Ruth Feldstein
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune". Simone, and her song, became icons of the civil rights movement. But her confrontational style was not the only path taken by black women entertainers....

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    • Heal from the Racial, Relationship, and Childhood Trauma That’s Holding You Back, Stop Devaluing Yourself, and Cure Toxic Self-Talk by Treating Yourself like Someone You Love
    • By: Nya Love
    • Narrated by: Candace Berry
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • In Self-Love for Black Women, Nya Love takes you on a transformative journey, offering practical tools and strategies to help you overcome past traumas, improve relationships, and cultivate unshakable self-worth....

    Regular price: $14.95

    • By: Issa Rae
    • Narrated by: Issa Rae
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,078 ratings
    • "My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and Black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be."....

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    • A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,973 ratings
    • The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....

    Regular price: $15.75

    • America's War on African American Marriage
    • By: Dianne M. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • According to the 2010 US census, more than 70 percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • A Memoir
    • By: Ursula Burns
    • Narrated by: Ursula Burns
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and more....

    Regular price: $24.29