Teaching White Supremacy

America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

By: Donald Yacovone
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.
 
“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,...
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Punished for Dreaming

How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love
Narrated by: Bettina L. Love & Karen Chilton
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

This program features an introduction read by the author.

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education ‘reform’ in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved...
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Cutting School

Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education

By: Noliwe Rooks
Narrated by: Robin Eller
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

What do public schools have in common with the pyramid schemes of Amway? Absolutely nothing, yet Trump's education secretary Betsy DeVos—part of the family at the helm of this corporation and a fierce advocate for vouchers, school choice, and free market competition in the education system—may soon be deciding the fate of American children. The... Read more

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Trust Kids!

Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy

By: carla bergman
Narrated by: Zach Bergman
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Trust Kids! weaves together essays, interviews, poems, and artwork from scholars, activists, and artists about our relationships with children in all areas of our lives.The contributors of Trust Kids! write from different backgrounds, genders, ages, and sexualities and combine past lineages with more recent child-rearing ideas to offer a fresh,... Read more

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Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues

Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls

By: Monique W. Morris
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout.



Wise Black women have known for centuries that the blues have been a platform for truth-telling, an underground musical railroad to survival, and an essential form of resistance, healing, and learning. In her... Read more

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Our History Has Always Been Contraband

In Defense of Black Studies

By: Colin Kaepernick, Robin D.G. Kelley & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high... Read more

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Education Across Borders

Immigration, Race, and Identity in the Classroom

By: Patrick Sylvain, Jalene Tamerat & Marie Lily Cerat
Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

The practices and values in the United States educational system position linguistically, culturally, and socioeconomically diverse children and families at a disadvantage. BIPOC dropout rates and levels of stress and anxiety have linked with non-inclusive school environments. In this collection, three educators draw on their experiences as... Read more

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Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Racism and School Closings in Chicago’s South Side

By: Eve L. Ewing
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Eve L. Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they're an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring... Read more

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No Study Without Struggle

Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education

By: Leigh Patel
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Examines how student protest against structural inequalities on campus pushes academic institutions to reckon with their legacy built on slavery and stolen Indigenous lands

Using campus social justice movements as an entry point, Leigh Patel shows how the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of... Read more

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Other People's Children

Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

By: Lisa Delpit
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine's "great books," Other People's Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new... Read more

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

50th Anniversary Edition

By: Paulo Freire
Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and... Read more

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Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County

A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle

By: Kristen Green
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

In the wake of the Supreme Court's unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision, Virginia's Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its public schools, locking and chaining the doors. The community's white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered... Read more

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A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

By: Jack Schneider & Jennifer Berkshire
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight back.



If America's public schools don't survive the COVID-19 pandemic, it won't just be due to the virus. Opponents of public education have long sought to dismantle our system of free, universal, and taxpayer-funded schooling. But the... Read more

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The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop

How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom

By: Felicia Rose Chavez
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering classroom communities. Award-winning educator Felicia Rose Chavez exposes the invisible politics of power and privilege that have silenced writers of color for far too long. It's more urgent than ever that we consciously work against traditions of dominance... Read more

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Pushout

The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

By: Monique W. Morris
Narrated by: Kristyl Dawn Tift
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school.



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