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black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability by Kimberly Mcintosh

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501295 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501295] to listen full audiobooks. Title: black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability Author: Kimberly Mcintosh Narrator: Kimberly Mcintosh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: 'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff ‘Witty, fresh and full of life’ Liv Little Kimberly McIntosh has lived a full life, with a loving family, messy friendships, mind-expanding travel and all-night parties. She’s also spent that life wondering why such opportunities aren’t always available to people who look like her. Stemming from years of social policy research and campaign work, this essay collection brings together all that Kimberly has learned; whether that’s dismantling the myth of social mobility for those who toe the line, to understanding why her teenage Facebook posts are quite so cringe. In it, she uses her own experiences to reveal how systematic injustice impacts us all, from the pressure of nuclear families, to enduring toxic friendships, to how painful it can be to watch Love Island. Perfect for fans of Slay In Your Lane, Trick Mirror, and Bad Feminist, this dazzling debut collection brilliantly melds the personal and political to not only tell the story of a life, but what that life might teach us.

Buyer Aware: Harnessing Our Consumer Power for a Safe, Fair, and Transparent Marketplace by Marta L. Tellado

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502028 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502028] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Buyer Aware: Harnessing Our Consumer Power for a Safe, Fair, and Transparent Marketplace Author: Marta L. Tellado Narrator: Molly Parker Myers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In an era of deregulation when consumers have never been more vulnerable to corporate surveillance, unsafe food, and dangerously faulty products, the president and CEO of Consumer Reports gives us a playbook to put the power back in our hands. You've been getting ripped off. The rules that have protected consumers for decades are failing. Companies are spying on us. Many of the products we once trusted are dangerous and failing at alarming rates. Whether we are buying a crib, a small appliance, an iPhone app, or shopping for car insurance, it's become harder than ever to know whether the choices we make in the marketplace are putting us at risk-either from physical harm or the abuse of our personal data by hackers or corporations. This is intolerable. It's wrong. And we don't have to put up with it anymore. Marta L. Tellado, the president and CEO of Consumer Reports, has been an advocate for consumers for decades. In Buyer Aware, Tellado shows you the steps you can take to protect yourself from predatory business practices, and how to exert your inherent power as a consumer to spur politicians and businesses to clean up their act. Only then can we ensure that we have an economy that is fair, safe, and transparent for all, and puts consumers first.

Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Liza Lin, Josh Chin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495212 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495212] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control Author: Liza Lin, Josh Chin Narrator: Brian Nishii Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As a minority separatist movement strains against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response. Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take listeners on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party’s ambitions, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway—a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495170 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495170] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington Author: James Kirchick Narrator: Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: 'Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.” —George Stephanopoulos Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City. For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere of political Washington, the secret “too loathsome to mention” held enormous, terrifying power. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified documents, interviews with over one hundred people, and material unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, Secret City is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Beginning with the tragic story of Sumner Welles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s brilliant diplomatic advisor and the man at the center of “the greatest national scandal since the existence of the United States,” James Kirchick illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the twentieth century. Cultural and political anxiety over gay people sparked a decades-long witch hunt, impacting everything from the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI to the ascent of Joseph McCarthy, the struggle for Black civil rights, and the rise of the conservative movement. Among other revelations, Kirchick tells of the World War II–era gay spymaster who pioneered seduction as a tool of American espionage, the devoted aide whom Lyndon Johnson treated as a son yet abandoned once his homosexuality was discovered, and how allegations of a “homosexual ring” controlling Ronald Reagan nearly derailed his 1980 election victory. Magisterial in scope and intimate in detail, Secret City will forever transform our understanding of American history. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage by Jarrod Shanahan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497681 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497681] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage Author: Jarrod Shanahan Narrator: Greg Tremblay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Just about everybody knows the name Rikers Island. A fixture of pop culture and underground prison lore alike, the sprawling East River jail complex has become synonymous with both the horrors of mass incarceration and the structurally-racist class domination at its core. But how did Rikers Island get to be this way? America's Jail represents a scrupulously researched answer to this question, written for a lay audience in an accessible narrative form. Befitting the high stakes of the present Rikers debate, the issues explored in this work have broad implications for the future of mass incarceration in the United States and beyond. Drawing from extensive archival research, decades of journalism, interviews, prisoner testimonials, and firsthand experience, Jarrod Shanahan tells the story of how so many miserable jail facilities ended up on one tiny East River islet, by charting the unwitting cooperation between prison reformers, who built jail infrastructure on the optimistic wager it could be used for social good, and the forces of organized retrenchment, who ensured this would never come to pass. By tracing the failure of jail reform in postwar New York in detail, America's Jail casts considerable doubt on jail reformers' ability to solve the problems of incarceration with better incarceration, even in shiny new jails.