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Diese historische Analyse enthüllt den wahren Konflikt zwischen amerikanischen Freiheitsidealen und brutaler Machtpolitik. Perfekt für das konzentrierte Zuhören während des Pendelns, zieht dich diese aufwühlende Erzählung tief in die gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Abgründe einer...

Saisissez les enjeux de la justice sociale grâce à ce récit historique poignant fait de luttes et d'émancipation. Idéal pour un trajet quotidien enrichissant, ce voyage immersif offre un regard nouveau sur la construction des États-Unis à travers l'expérience et le regard des populations...

自由と平等の理想を掲げる超大国は、なぜ自ら分断と抑圧の道を選び続けたのか。国家を永遠に変えた残酷な決断の歴史を紐解きます。毎日の通勤時間や深い集中を求める夜に、この思索的で緊張感あふれる軌跡は、あな...

Diese authentische Sozialgeschichte der USA zeigt, wie alltäglicher Widerstand eine Supermacht formte. Perfekt für das tägliche Pendeln oder das konzentrierte Lernen, lässt dich dieses packende Hörerlebnis tief in die raue, inspirierende Realität der Vergangenheit eintauchen. Von den...

Dieser fesselnde historische Bericht schildert den radikalen Befreiungskampf versklavter Menschen gegen ein Weltreich. Mach deinen täglichen Weg zur Arbeit zu einer packenden Zeitreise und tauche tief in eine von brutaler Plantagenökonomie geprägte Ära ein. Es ist die ungeschönte Geschichte...

Explorez une histoire sociale captivante où les luttes quotidiennes des gens ordinaires forgent une nation. Idéal pour enrichir vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif délaisse les grands dirigeants pour donner voix aux travailleurs, aux migrants et aux militants silencieux. C'est une...

Erforsche die globale Geschichte einer beispiellosen erzwungenen Migration, welche die moderne Welt unumkehrbar formte. Ob auf dem täglichen Arbeitsweg oder beim konzentrierten Zuhören am Abend, dieses tiefgründige historische Panorama fesselt sofort. Millionen afrikanische Schicksale rücken...

日々のニュースに潜む人種分断の根源を解き明かし、アメリカ黒人史の深層から現代社会を読み解く歴史ノンフィクション。通勤電車の中で国際報道を耳にするたびに感じる違和感や疑問が、確かな知見へと変わる瞬間を...

Découvrez comment la guerre civile américaine et la lutte pour l'émancipation ont définitivement forgé une nation. Loin d'être une fracture soudaine, ce déchirement fratricide représente l'aboutissement implacable de décennies de tensions politiques. Idéal pour enrichir vos trajets...

Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the little-known story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington. "Chatelain lets us see the complexities of these women’s lives, feel their pain, and marvel at...

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a...

In Inhuman Bondage, David Brion Davis sums up a lifetime of insight. He looks at slavery in the American South; the rise of the Cotton Kingdom; the daily life of slaves; the destructive internal long-distance slave trade; the sexual exploitation of slaves; the emergence of an African-American culture; and much more. A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism.

On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men. Thus began a reign of terror that lasted six months and left 15 Whites dead and the entire city in a state of panic. The perpetrators wanted nothing less than a race war.

In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston's battles for environmental justice.

A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of acclaimed contributors and with a foreword by Lena Dunham Michelle Obama’s legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obama’s equal partner in...

With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe Available once again for a new generation, the first volume in Arthur Ashe’s epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United States—a major addition to our understanding of American history and the fulfillment of...

Abducted from Africa, sold in America. A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. This account illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells...

Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas, and then they were erased from history. Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always said that enslaved women were not involved, but Rebecca decides to look deeper. 

America's black intellectuals - writers, historians, educators, and community activists - have made major contributions to the struggle for equality and human rights throughout American public life. The key streams of thought that gave rise to the intellectual traditions associated with African Americans emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. These same traditions continue to develop and influence social and political processes today.