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The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education

When inclusion into the fold of citizenship is conditioned by a social group's conceit to ritual violence, humiliation, and exploitation, what can anti-citizenship offer us? The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship argues that Black youth and youth of color have been cast as anti-citizens, disenfranchised from the social, political, and economic mainstream of American life. Instead of asking youth to conform to a larger societal structure undergirded by racial capitalism and antiblackness, the volume's contributors propose that the collective practice of anti-citizenship opens up a liberatory space for youth to challenge the social order. The chapters cover an array of topics, including Black youth in the charter school experiment in post-Katrina New Orleans; racial capitalism, the queering of ethnicity, and the 1980s Salvadoran migration to South Central Los Angeles; the notion of decolonizing classrooms through Palestinian liberation narratives; and more. Through a range of methodological approaches and conceptual interventions, this collection illuminates how youth negotiate and exercise anti-citizenship as forms of either resistance or refusal in response to coercive patriotism, cultural imperialism, and predatory capitalism.

Kevin L. Clay, Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr. (Author), Patryce Williams, William Andrew Quinn (Narrator)

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If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents

While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific expertise available today-including the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder-with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced this mood disorder in their own children. Among other topics, the book addresses the roots of bipolar disorder, red flags to look out for, treatment options for young people, and practical strategies for helping a teen cope at home and at school. It concludes on a hopeful note, by reviewing the latest scientific evidence on treating this mood disorder. A growing body of research now shows that early diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder may reduce the severity of the disease, both now and in the future. Including chapters on sex, drugs, social media, and life after high school, this book will provide the information and tools parents need to help adolescents achieve the best possible outcome.

Dwight L. Evans Md, Dwight L. Evans, M.D., Katherine Ellison, Tami D. Benton Md, Tami D. Benton, M.D. (Author), Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Di

As a woman of color, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual violence in your lifetime. In addition, your family may have experienced generational trauma and systemic racism going back for centuries. This old and new trauma can manifest in both the mind and body. However, there are ways you can free yourself from this trauma. Written by a woman of color for women of color, Decolonizing the Body offers proven-effective somatic, body-centered practices to help you heal from systemic oppression, trust the profound wisdom of your own body, and reconnect with your true self. And by slowing down, cultivating a daily ritual, and setting strong boundaries, you can reclaim your inherent dignity and worth. With this empowering guide, you'll discover: how bodies are colonized through systems of oppression; why slowing down is essential for healing; how to listen to what your body needs; how to create a space for ritual in your daily life; how to strengthen feelings of capability; and how to cultivate community. To decolonize the body is to become whole again, and to come home again. Let this book be your guide on this crucial journey.

Kelsey Blackwell (Author), Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it’s an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, this book features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown. Shaped by the clear-eyed wisdom of editors Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, Not Too Late is a guide to take us from climate crisis to climate hope. Contributors include Julian Aguon, Jade Begay, adrienne maree brown, Edward Carr, Renato Redantor Constantino, Joelle Gergis, Jacquelyn Gill, Mary Annaise Heglar, Mary Anne Hitt, Roshi Joan Halifax, Nikayla Jefferson, Antonia Juhasz, Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, Fenton Lutunatabua & Joseph `Sikulu, Yotam Marom, Denali Nalamalapu, Leah Stokes, Farhana Sultana, and Gloria Walton.

Various Authors (Author), Deanna Anthony, Erin Deward, Hillary Huber, Jenny Rich, Katherine Littrell, Kyla Garcia, Patryce Williams, Ramón De Ocampo, Robin Miles, Soneela Nankani, Steven Jay Cohen, Vikas Adam (Narrator)

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Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives

Black Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple generations of radical protest, including our contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing its title from one of America’s foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration. Murch exposes the devastating consequences of overlapping punishment campaigns against gangs, drugs, and crime on poor and working-class populations of color. Through largely hidden channels, it is these punishment campaigns, Murch says, that generate enormous revenues for the state. Under such difficult conditions, organized resistance to the advancing tide of state violence and incarceration has proved difficult. This timely and urgent book shows how a youth-led political movement has emerged since the killing of Trayvon Martin that challenges the bipartisan consensus on punishment and looks to the future through a redistributive, queer, and feminist lens. Murch frames the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement in relation to earlier struggles for Black Liberation, while excavating the origins of mass incarceration and the political economy that drives it. Assata Taught Me offers a fresh and much-needed historical perspective on the fifty years since the founding of the Black Panther Party, in which the world’s largest police state has emerged.

Donna Murch (Author), Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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Race and the Suburbs in American Film

This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the present. It builds upon the explosion of interest in the suburbs in film, television, and fiction in the last fifteen years, concentrating exclusively on the relationship of race to the built environment. Suburb films began as a cycle in response to both America's changing urban geography and the re-segregation of its domestic spaces in the postwar era, which excluded African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinx from the suburbs while buttressing whiteness. By defying traditional categories and chronologies in cinema studies, the contributors explore the myriad ways suburban spaces and racialized bodies in film mediate each other. Race and the Suburbs in American Film is a stimulating resource for considering the manner in which race is foundational to architecture and urban geography, which is reflected, promoted, and challenged in cinematic representations.

Merrill Schleier (Author), Amir Abdullah, Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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The Marvellers

New York Times-bestselling author Dhonielle Clayton makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magic school in the sky, perfect for fans of Rick Riordan, Soman Chainani, and Philip Pullman. 'The Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live in this world.' —Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling–author 'A marvelous gift of a novel! With fantastical twists at every turn, Clayton has created a world that readers won't want to leave.” —Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U Give and Concrete Rose “The Marvellers is a rich, enchanted melting pot of magic, thrills, and color . . . filled with heart, wit, and humor. A tantalizing introduction to an exhilarating fantasy universe.” —Soman Chainani, New York Times-bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil series Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts, like brewing Indian spice elixirs and bartering with pesky Irish pixies. Despite her excitement, Ella discovers that being the first isn’t easy—some Marvellers mistrust her magic, which they deem “bad and unnatural.” But eventually, she finds friends in elixirs teacher, Masterji Thakur, and fellow misfits Brigit, a girl who hates magic, and Jason, a boy with a fondness for magical creatures. When a dangerous criminal known as the Ace of Anarchy escapes prison, supposedly with a Conjuror’s aid, tensions grow in the Marvellian world and Ella becomes the target of suspicion. Worse, Masterji Thakur mysteriously disappears while away on a research trip. With the help of her friends and her own growing powers, Ella must find a way to clear her family’s name and track down her mentor before it’s too late. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.

Dhonielle Clayton (Author), Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business

In an era of political and cultural extremism, America's corporate leaders have emerged as the pragmatic center of a movement for social and economic progress. The core tenets of a capitalist system that dominated the world for more than a century are being challenged as never before. Narratives about the failures of capitalism, the greed of the 1 percent, and the blindness of corporations to public need have made their mark and are driving change. These aren't the superficial cosmetic fixes that generated so much cynicism in the past, but a revolution in the way corporations are imagined and run. Tomorrow's Capitalist reveals how corporate CEOs-the ultimate pragmatists-realized that they could lose their "operating license" unless they tackle the fundamental issues of our time: climate, diversity and inclusion, and inequality and workforce opportunity. Responding to their employees and customers who are demanding corporate change, they have taken the lead in establishing the bold new principles of stakeholder capitalism, ensuring that for the first time in more than a half a century it is not just shareholders who have a say in how corporations are run. Alan Murray vividly captures the zeitgeist of the real and compelling dynamic that is transforming much of the corporate world.

Alan Murray (Author), Alan Murray, Bj Harrison, Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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Sophie Washington: Things You Didn't Know About Sophie: Sophie Washington, Book Three

AN AMAZON BEST SELLING BOOK FOR KIDS!Only Losers Don't Have Cell Phones...That's what Sophie thinks in the beginning of this hilarious and heartwarming, illustrated chapter book about fitting in. She feels like an outsider because she's the only one in her class without a cell phone, and her crush, new kid Toby Johnson, has been calling her best friend Chloe. To fit in, Sophie changes who she is. Her plan to become popular works for a while, and she and Toby start to become friends. Things get more complicated when Sophie "borrows" a cell phone and gets caught. If her parents make her tell the truth, what will her friends think? Turns out Toby has also been hiding something, and Sophie discovers the best way to make true friends is to be yourself.Here's what Goodreads reviewers say about Sophie Washington: Things You Didn't Know About Sophie: - "Sophie is a real character with flaws and it is fun reading how she matures. The story line was funny and realistic." - "Virtues like honesty, friendship and being true to yourself are always in style, and this book teaches that in a fun way. Also, it's great to learn a little bit about Texas too!" - "Very well written middle school book." This is the third book in the Readers' Favorite five star rated Sophie Washington book series.

Tonya Duncan Ellis (Author), Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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Truth, Lies, and Mr. Grey

Diamond. Noelle. Vanessa. As Cyrus Grey recovers from a near-fatal shooting, the women who each thought they were his only wife are fighting hard to make new dreams-even if it means going one dangerous step too far . . . On trial for Cyrus's shooting, Diamond is determined to clear her name-and get back the husband she still loves. But uncovering the truth will reveal more secrets than she ever imagined. And unexpected desire is bringing them all too close to home . . . Beautiful Noelle has found happiness with new love Tariq. But Cyrus' scheming confronts her with an unthinkable conspiracy-and an impossible choice to save all she hopes for . . . As seemingly sweet suburban wife Vanessa helps Cyrus recover, she's about to finish him off for good-and keep the expensive lifestyle she earned. But her manipulations will push her up against two relentless-and all-too-intimate-enemies . . . Now with lethal agendas clashing, passions high, and everyone's future on the line, which rules will each woman break to finally end the past-and who will survive to secure everything?

Shelly Ellis (Author), Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee: Sophie Washington, Book One

AN AMAZON BEST SELLING BOOK FOR KIDS! This entertaining, illustrated, middle grade chapter book is the series opener. Sign up for the spelling bee? No way! If there's one thing 10-year-old Texan Sophie Washington is good at, it's spelling. She's earned straight 100s on all her spelling tests to prove it. Her parents want her to compete in the Xavier Academy spelling bee,but Sophie wishes they would buzz off. That's until her irritating classmate, Nathan Jones, challenges her. There's no way she can let Mr. Know-It-All win. Studying is hard when you have a pesky younger brother and a busy social calendar. Can Sophie ignore the distractions and become Queen of the Bee? Here's what Goodreads reviewers say about Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee: - "Another great Sophie Washington book. Super cute. My 11-year-old loves these books." - "As someone with a 10-year niece who is in fifth grade like Sophie, I believe that she would love this book and the rest of the Sophie Washington series by Tonya Duncan Ellis." - "This series will go far. The story is down to earth, realistic and easy to read." This is the first book in the Readers' Favorite five star rated Sophie Washington book series that includes: - Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee (Book 1) - Sophie Washington: The Snitch (Book 2) - Sophie Washington: Things You Didn't Know About Sophie (Book 3) - Sophie Washington: The Gamer (Book 4) - Sophie Washington: Hurricane (Book 5) - Sophie Washington: Mission Costa Rica (Book 6) - Sophie Washington: Secret Santa (Book 7) - Sophie Washington: Code One (Book 8) - Sophie Washington: Mismatch (Book 9) - Sophie Washington: My BFF (Book 10) Kids Ages 8-12Click above to get your copy today!

Tonya Duncan Ellis (Author), Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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No Explanation Required!: A Woman's Guide to Assert Your Confidence and Communicate to Win at Work

With only 5.8% of CEO positions in the S&P 500 held by women, it's clear that there are more women who deserve a seat at the table than actually have one. In No Explanation Required!, Carol Sankar gives you the strategies you need to create the success you deserve-today. Loaded with real-life examples and backed by proprietary research, No Explanation Required! coaches you on how to speak up for yourself, stop debating your decisions, and eliminate 'limiting' language. In example after example, it becomes clear how these too-frequent expressions ('I'm sorry,' 'Excuse me,' 'I'll get back to you') can strip you of your authority and credibility. Instead, you'll discover positive, practical ways to assert your confidence and master communication at work, with chapters that include 'The Self Promotion Gap,' 'Perception and Performance,' 'What's Like Got to Do with It?,' and 'The 8-Minute Rule'-how to create eight-minute micro conversations and connections. Every chapter offers key takeaways you'll want to put into effect immediately-and keep in mind always. With the tactics in No Explanation Required! mastered, you'll be better equipped to stop explaining and start negotiating-for gender parity, better compensation, opportunities, and so much more.

Carol Sankar (Author), Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Patryce Williams