African Economics

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    • The Golden Arches in Black America
    • By: Marcia Chatelain
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2020
    • Language: English
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    • From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America....

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    • By: Sarah L. Schuette
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Explore the life and achievements of Wallace Amos, entrepreneur and founder of Famous Amos cookies....

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    • By: A'Lelia Bundles
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and expanding the local black YMCA, but she couldn't have done that if she weren't the first female self-made millionaire and one of the most successful African American business owners ever....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
    • By: Shelby Steele
    • Narrated by: Randall Bain
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A prominent conservative scholar traces the post-1960s divisions between the Right and the Left, taking aim at liberals' victimization of African Americans....

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    • One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
    • By: Esau McCaulley
    • Narrated by: Esau McCaulley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class.

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically....

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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....

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    • How We Have Been Lied to About African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing
    • By: Magatte Wade
    • Narrated by: Magatte Wade
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Join the movement for Africa's rightful place in the 21st century: fostering innovation, earning prosperity, and growing into an economic powerhouse. Wade's impassioned voice promises nothing less than the dawn of a new era....

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    • How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
    • By: Jason L. Riley
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....

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    • Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
    • By: David Farber
    • Narrated by: Kerry Shale
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling "rock" cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld....

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    • Mindset of Capitalists
    • By: Kigozi Andrew
    • Narrated by: Stuart Liam McConville
    • Length: 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-2019
    • Language: English
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    • This book reflects on the subject of capitalism from an African standpoint: the challenges faced by capitalists in Africa, possible remedies to those problems, and the thought process of an African capitalist....

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    • Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class
    • By: Kris Marsh
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA)....

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    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and the persistence of structural inequality....

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    • Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
    • By: Ellen Griffith Spears
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2014
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • By: Jason L. Riley
    • Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
    • Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-2023
    • Language: English
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    • In The Black Boom, Jason L. Riley—acclaimed Wall Street Journal columnist and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute—digs into the data and concludes that the economic lives of black people improved significantly under policies put into place during the Trump administration....

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    • Poems
    • By: Gregory Pardlo
    • Narrated by: Gregory Pardlo
    • Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly among considerations of the pro-wrestler Owen Hart; Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials....

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    • Privilege & Peril Among the Black Middle Class
    • By: Mary Pattillo
    • Narrated by: Jo Sands
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black middle class....

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