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  Faces Behind These Systems: 3 Felonies Without Committing a Single Crime: How the Government Stole My Identity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min

  A true story about how the government single-handedly stole NK's identity. For NK, life has been anything but a walk in the park. When NK Yahushua set out with her friend and her dog for a sunset hike in LA’s famous Griffith Park, she set out toward her own demise. Before the night was over, NK would be racially profiled by a park ranger, arrested without cause, and falsely imprisoned miles away from her Los Feliz home. And that would only be the beginning. For the next decade-and-a-half, NK finds herself swirling helplessly in the merciless grip of a prideful and discriminatory judicial system. Despite her doctoral degree, she loses her ability to secure gainful employment due to her criminal record's unnamed dark mark, with her home in foreclosure and her future hanging precariously in the balance. NK sets out to determine exactly who placed her on California’s blacklist and why. What she discovers is the shocking evidence of nefarious activity within America’s insidious injustice system. Will she live to see her record cleared and her life restored? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alyson Krawchuk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231476/bk_acx0_231476_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Neglected Right

  The right to be elected, although an important political right guaranteed in human rights documents on international and regional levels, is still an under-researched and undertheorized concept with many synonyms in use. While the right to vote is often correlated with democracy, the closely related right to be elected is often neglected, and the constitutions of most countries are silent about it. The 2009 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision in the case of Sejdic and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina started the discussions concerning the discrimination in enjoyment of the right to be elected in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although the right to be elected is not explicitly guaranteed in the Dayton Constitution but only in the Law on Election, the ECHR considered equal enjoyment of this right by everyone in Bosnia and Herzegovina of high importance and declared the relevant Dayton Constitution's provisions discriminatory. The book explains the conceptual relevance of the right to be elected, its interrelatedness with the right to vote and both these rights' significance for democratic systems. Through analyzing and explaining the regional human rights tribunal's decisions concerning the right to be elected, the importance of this political right is elucidated.

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  Summary of Becoming by Michelle Obama , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 122min

  In the book Becoming, Michelle Obama tells a tale of a young girl born in Chicago and takes us through her growing and formative years. It tells of how a woman found her voice in a discriminatory society and how she emerged strong, fearless, and confident.Are you lost and wondering how to journey through life? This book is for you. Through every chapter, Michelle Obama speaks to your heart and soul, relaying her life and helping you live your best life! She shares her ups and downs, woes and successes, as a single lady, in marriage, and even in her career.This book contains a comprehensive, well-detailed summary and key takeaways of the original book Becoming by Michelle Obama. It summarizes the book in detail to help people effectively understand, articulate, and imbibe the original work by the former first lady. This book is not meant to replace the original book, but to serve as a companion to it.Contained inside are:Executive summary/overview of the entire book The key points from each chapter for quick grasp andBrief chapter-by-chapter summaries You can start and finish this in an hour or less and get all the valuable information from the original book to help shape your life for a new beginning.Click on the "buy now" button to get started. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/212155/bk_acx0_212155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  White Male Privilege: A Study of Racism in America 50 Years After the Voting Rights Act, Third Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 84min

  Discrimination and racism has existed in America since the very early days of colonization. In the Declaration of Independence, our founding fathers declared "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." And yet, it would be another 189 years before Americans would be equal by law. It has been suggested that with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, America had finally overcame its ugly past of racism and discrimination. As we entered into the new millennium, the author wondered if America had really set aside its biases and discriminatory practices. The author interviewed eight people as he developed the foundations for this book. One of the people he was honored to interview was Brian Swann, the brother of famous footballer Lynn Swann. Brian shared his story of a racially motivated encounter that he and his brother's had experienced in the 1970's in San Francisco, California, at the hands of the San Francisco Police Department. Each of the eight people interviewed for this book brought with them a different experience and viewpoint as it relates to discrimination and racism in America, and more specifically, white male privilege in America. The author brought these eight individual viewpoints together, and told their story as they relate to American history, from the early days of colonization through the present day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Edwin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001862/bk_acx0_001862_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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• The Passing Playbook

  Love, Simon meets Bend It Like Beckham in this feel-good contemporary romance about a trans athlete who must decide between fighting for his right to play and staying stealth. "A sharply observant and vividly drawn debut. I loved every minute I spent in this story, and I've never rooted harder for a jock in my life." - New York Times bestselling author Becky Albertalli Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother, and a David Beckham in training. He's also transgender. After transitioning at his old school leads to a year of isolation and bullying, Spencer gets a fresh start at Oakley, the most liberal private school in Ohio. At Oakley, Spencer seems to have it all: more accepting classmates, a decent shot at a starting position on the boys' soccer team, great new friends, and maybe even something more than friendship with one of his teammates. The problem is, no one at Oakley knows Spencer is trans-he's passing. But when a discriminatory law forces Spencer's coach to bench him, Spencer has to make a choice: cheer his team on from the sidelines or publicly fight for his right to play, even though it would mean coming out to everyone-including the guy he's falling for.

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  HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min

  HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech", showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that "hate speech" - which has no generally accepted definition - is either absolutely unprotected or absolutely protected from censorship. Rather, US law allows government to punish hateful or discriminatory speech in specific contexts when it directly causes imminent serious harm. Yet government may not punish such speech solely because its message is disfavored, disturbing, or vaguely feared to possibly contribute to some future harm. When US officials formerly wielded such broad censorship power, they suppressed dissident speech, including equal rights advocacy. Likewise, current politicians have attacked Black Lives Matter protests as "hate speech". "Hate speech" censorship proponents stress the potential harms such speech might further: discrimination, violence, and psychic injuries. However, there has been little analysis of whether censorship effectively counters the feared injuries. Citing evidence from many countries, this book shows that "hate speech" laws are at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. Their inevitably vague terms invest enforcing officials with broad discretion, and predictably, regular targets are minority views and speakers. Therefore, prominent social justice advocates in the United States and beyond maintain that the best way to resist hate and promote equality is not censorship but, rather, vigorous "counterspeech" and activism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nadine Strossen, Angelo Di Loreto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032942/bk_adbl_032942_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Cop Violence: Police Use of Excessive and Deadly Force in the United States , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 109min

  This book focuses on the use of excessive and deadly force executed by law enforcement agencies in the context of a racial bias operating throughout the United States and its criminal justice systems. America’s criminal system, past and present, openly displays an enormous amount of inequality and injustice against African American males, females, and other minorities. Are law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system allowing police officers the right to desecrate minorities through the use of excessive and deadly force?This book focuses on the consequences of a US legal system that seldom if ever provides any retributive justice to police officers that kill unarmed African American, Native American, and Hispanic males. This book will demonstrate that minority male lives in America “do not matter” as much as Caucasian male lives do, based on the differential responses of police officers to these demographic groupings.This book reviews “up close and personal” seven cases of police killing unarmed African American males during the summer of 2014. By way, supplemental data on excessive and deadly use of force by the police are used to help contextualize this form of discriminatory control over the past quarter of a century.The higher rates of excessive and deadly use of force aimed at African American males, particularly in contested or violent neighborhoods, underscores a form of ethnic and racial injustice in America. In the affected areas, these social realities call not only for changes in policing, but also in the socio-economic relations and the organizational structures of ethnically depressed communities. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ashton Haugen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220928/bk_acx0_220928_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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• The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander (eBook, ePUB)

  This book explores the life and contributions of groundbreaking attorney, Elreta Melton Alexander Ralston (1919-98). In 1945 Alexander became the first African American woman to graduate from Columbia Law School. In 1947 she was the first African American woman to practice law in the state of North Carolina, and in 1968 she became the first African American woman to become an elected district court judge. Despite her accomplishments, Alexander is little known to scholars outside of her hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina. Her life and career deserve recognition, however, not just because of her impressive lists of "firsts," but also owing to her accomplishments during the civil rights movement in the U.S. South.While Alexander did not actively participate in civil rights marches and demonstrations, she used her professional achievements and middle-class status to advocate for individuals who lacked a voice in the southern legal system. Virginia L. Summey argues that Alexander was integral to the civil rights movement in North Carolina as she, and women like her, worked to change discriminatory laws while opening professional doors for other minority women. Using her professional status, Alexander combatted segregation by demonstrating that Black women were worthy and capable of achieving careers alongside white men, thereby creating environments in which other African Americans could succeed. Her legal expertise and ability to reach across racial boundaries made her an important figure in Greensboro history.

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  Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min

  Chicago has long struggled with racial residential segregation, high rates of poverty, and deepening class stratification, and it can be a challenging place for adolescents to grow up. Unequal City examines the ways in which Chicago's most vulnerable residents navigate their neighborhoods, life opportunities, and encounters with the law. In this pioneering analysis of the intersection of race, place, and opportunity, sociologist and criminal justice expert Carla Shedd illuminates how schools either reinforce or ameliorate the social inequalities that shape the worlds of these adolescents.Shedd draws from an array of data and in-depth interviews with Chicago youth to offer new insight into this understudied group. Focusing on four public high schools with differing student bodies, Shedd reveals how the predominantly low-income African-American students at one school encounter obstacles their more affluent, white counterparts on the other side of the city do not face. Teens often travel long distances to attend school which, due to Chicago's segregated and highly unequal neighborhoods, can involve crossing class, race, and gang lines. As Shedd explains, the disadvantaged teens who traverse these boundaries daily develop a keen “perception of injustice,” or the recognition that their economic and educational opportunities are restricted by their place in the social hierarchy.Shedd finds that the racial composition of the student body profoundly shapes students' perceptions of injustice. The more diverse a school is, the more likely its students of color will recognize whether they are subject to discriminatory treatment. By contrast, African-American and Hispanic youth whose schools and neighborhoods are both highly segregated and highly policed are less likely to understand their individual and group disadvantage due to their lack of exposure to youth of differing backgrounds.The book is published by the Russell Sage Foundation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pamela L. Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159562/bk_acx0_159562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  American Racism Paradox: The History of Racism in America, from Birth to the Present Day. Between Strong Powers and Inequality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 280min

  From slavery to George Floyd, discover the history of racism in the USA, from its beginning to today.Welcome to the 21st century, the time when racism is alive and well, even though everybody claims they live in a post-racial society. In order to fight the racist thought, it is essential that people first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.Written by Seymour Abrahams, American Racism Paradox explores the idea of racism from the day it appeared until today. Abrahams points out that, contrary to popular belief, racism didn't appear because of hatred or ignorance. Instead, it was devised by the brilliant minds of each era. These people wanted to entrench discriminatory policies and the nation's racial disparities in everything from wealth to health.Here's what American Racism Paradox has to offer:The History of Racism: Discover when racism appeared and how it managed to infect the minds of millions of Americans.From Colonialism Until Today: Find out how racism shaped the society since the 18th century and how it changed to become more heinous than ever before.A New Type of Slavery: Learn how people of color are slaves to the white supremacist society, even now in the 21st century.And much more!Even though racist ideas are easily produced, they can be as easily discredited. Abrahams wrote this book as an additional attempt to fight racism. American Racism Paradox sheds a light on the murky history of racist ideas and offers the listener all the tools they need to expose them. The fight against racism is not over; it is just getting started!Scroll up and click on “buy now" to get the audiobook. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robbin Wilkinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210982/bk_acx0_210982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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