Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist Author: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner Narrator: Ali Stroker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 19, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Tony-award winning actress Ali Stroker reads the story of Judy Heumann—one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/380248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue . and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation Author: Lauren Michele Jackson Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 12, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality. American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success—and white profit. Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why cultural appropriation—something that’s become embedded in our daily lives—deserves serious attention. It is a blueprint for taking wealth and power, and ultimately exacerbates the economic, political, and social inequity that persists in America. She unravels the racial contradictions lurking behind American culture as we know it—from shapeshifting celebrities and memes gone viral to brazen poets, loveable potheads, and faulty political leaders. An audacious debut, White Negroes brilliantly summons a re-interrogation of Norman Mailer’s infamous 1957 essay of a similar name. It also introduces a bold new voice in Jackson. Piercing, curious, and bursting with pop cultural touchstones, White Negroes is a dispatch in awe of black creativity everywhere and an urgent call for our thoughtful consumption.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty Author: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson Narrator: Stephen Graybill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats. Liberty is hardly the 'natural' order of things; usually states have been either too weak to protect individuals or too strong for people to protect themselves from despotism. There is also a happy Western myth that where liberty exists, it's a steady state, arrived at by 'enlightenment'. But liberty emerges only when a delicate and incessant balance is struck between state and society - between elites and citizens. This struggle becomes self-reinforcing, inducing both state and society to develop a richer array of capacities, thus affecting the peacefulness of societies, the success of economies and how people experience their daily lives. Explaining this new framework through compelling stories from around the world, in history and from today - and through a single diagram on which the development of any state can be plotted - this masterpiece helps us understand the past and present, and analyse the future. Includes an accompanying PDF of charts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390158 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing Author: David Leser Narrator: David Leser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 5, 2019 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In February 2018, the Good Weekend cover story by David Leser Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing became one of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of the year. With an unprecedented response from readers both in Australia and around the world urging him to expand his story – this is the water-cooler book of the #MeToo era. David Leser explores his own psyche and role in the patriarchy, and how history has brought us to the #Metoo movement and its eruptions of female anger worldwide. Where did we go wrong? How do we navigate relationships now? And where to from here? “Forces you to rethink almost everything you thought you knew about female/male relationships and plants a flag of hope for the future” MATTHEW CONDON “I want to hire a plane and air-drop this book onto every footy oval, boardroom, electoral offices and boys' schools” BENJAMIN LAW “Resolutely human. Wholly essential. Utterly unputdownable” TRENT DALTON “At last, a man has listened and understood” JANE CARO

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/380233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838–1839 Author: Frances Anne Kemble Narrator: Alison Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 25, 2019 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A personal indictment of the institute of slavery in the Southern United States, as witnessed directly by Fanny Kemble, a British actress in 1838 and 1839. Her husband, the heir to the plantations in Georgia, however, forebade her to publish this material on pain of never seeing her daughters again. She complied, until the two daughters had reached the age of twenty-one, and then allowed the journal to be published in 1863, when the Northern troops were already present along the coast near the Altamaha River, where the plantations were located. In a very personal way, she relates her many varied experiences, efforts to make life easier for the slaves despite her husband’s stubborn resistance. As an English citizen, she had seen the total end of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, just a few years before her journey to Georgia. She ends her account with a stirring defense of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which had raised such a storm of controversy in the United States. Like Stowe, Kemble sees all sides of the situation, with her eyes and with her heart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/376243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX: The Result of a Deliberative Process That Contemplates a New Dawn in Hollywood Author: Michael Walker Narrator: Caroline Slaughter, Fleet Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 25, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In 1969, the nearly nine months pregnant celebrity Sharon Tate loses her life and the life of her unborn child, horrifying hundreds of millions of Americans. How do we restore the dignity of Sharon Tate in the American psyche from an ocean of morbidity on a level unseen in the history of the United States? Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX transcends the problem, navigating Sharon Tate's enigma with a clear defense of her person as someone worthy of admiration. The book details flexible options that reverse the present situation by reintroducing Sharon Tate to the American public. Only 26 years old when she died, the story of Sharon's life became of less public interest than learning about the hippie lives of her murderers. Despite this, Sharon possesses a formidable arsenal of relatively unseen visual media for planners to work with. Plan MMXX envisions a new dawn in Hollywood and promotion of the greater good.