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The Torture Letters

Reckoning with Police Violence

by Laurence Ralph ...

Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by ... Read more

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Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by
... Read more
Renegade Dreams

Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago

by Laurence Ralph ...

An ethnographic study of the residents of a violent West Chicago neighborhood and how they cope from day to day.As with war, much of our focus on inner-city violence is on the death toll, but the reality is that far more victims live to see another day and must copy with their injuries—both physical and psychological—for the rest of their lives. Renegade Dreams is their story. Walking the streets ... Read more

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An ethnographic study of the residents of a violent West Chicago neighborhood and how they cope from day to day.As with war, much of our focus on inner-city violence is on the death toll, but the reality is that far more victims live to see another day and must copy with their injuries—both physical and psychological—for the rest of their lives. Renegade Dreams is their story. Walking the streets
... Read more
Sito

An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him

by Laurence Ralph ...

**AN IN THE MARGINS BOOK AWARD HONORARY TITLEWINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA'S 2025 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARR MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE COUNCIL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION'S 2025 OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARDA "profound", heart-wrenching story of violence, grief, and the American justice system, explored through the story of one teenager (Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer ... Read more

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**AN IN THE MARGINS BOOK AWARD HONORARY TITLEWINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA'S 2025 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARR MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE COUNCIL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION'S 2025 OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARDA "profound", heart-wrenching story of violence, grief, and the American justice system, explored through the story of one teenager (Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer
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Sito

An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him

by Laurence Ralph ...

Narrated by Andre Santana ...

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8 hours 16 min

A "profound", heart-wrenching story of violence, grief, and the American justice system, explored through the story of one teenager (Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted).In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was ... Read more

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A "profound", heart-wrenching story of violence, grief, and the American justice system, explored through the story of one teenager (Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted).In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was
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Hacking Hip Hop

Design Remix Logic in Research, Method, and Practice

by Joycelyn Wilson, Andrew Young ...

Series Book 8 - Music of the American South
Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on personal narrative, cultural analysis, and over two decades of teaching and research, Dr. Joycelyn Wilson introduces “Design Remix Logic” (DRL) - a framework that captures how Hip Hop artists, educators, and technologists remix systems of culture, sound, memory, ... Read more

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Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on personal narrative, cultural analysis, and over two decades of teaching and research, Dr. Joycelyn Wilson introduces “Design Remix Logic” (DRL) - a framework that captures how Hip Hop artists, educators, and technologists remix systems of culture, sound, memory,
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Top 10 Poets – The American Men, The

Five poems each from some of the best male poets ever born in the USA

by Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Vachel Lindsay, James Weldon Johnson, Stephen Vincent Benét, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, John-Michael MacDonald, Warren Keyes ...

Unabridged

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more
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Top 10 Poets, The - The 19th Century - The Americans

Five poems each from best American poets born in the 19th century

by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, James Weldon Johnson, Herman Melville, Emma Lazarus ...

Narrated by John-Michael MacDonald, Eric Meyers, Patricia Rodriguez ...

Unabridged

1 hour 42 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Theatre Royal - The Liar & My Uncle Toby

Episode 18

by Henry James, Laurence Sterne ...

Narrated by Ralph Richardson ...

Abridged

58 min

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Ralph Richardson, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier. They were based on works by the worlds’ leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry ... Read more

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Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Ralph Richardson, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier. They were based on works by the worlds’ leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry
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Theatre Royal - Four Meetings & A Sentimental Journey

Episode 19

by Henry James, Laurence Sterne ...

Narrated by Ralph Richardson ...

Abridged

58 min

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Ralph Richardson, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier. They were based on works by the worlds’ leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry ... Read more

$4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Ralph Richardson, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier. They were based on works by the worlds’ leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry
... Read more

Abolitionist Intimacies

by El Jones ...

In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well ... Read more

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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well
... Read more
Tough on Hate?

The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes

by Clara S. Lewis ...

Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Why do we know every gory crime scene detail about such victims as Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. and yet almost nothing about the vast majority of other hate crime victims? Now that federal anti-hate-crimes laws have been passed, why has the number of these crimes not declined significantly? To answer such questions, Clara S. Lewis challenges us to reconsider our understanding of hate crimes. ... Read more

$23.09 USD

Why do we know every gory crime scene detail about such victims as Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. and yet almost nothing about the vast majority of other hate crime victims? Now that federal anti-hate-crimes laws have been passed, why has the number of these crimes not declined significantly? To answer such questions, Clara S. Lewis challenges us to reconsider our understanding of hate crimes.
... Read more
The End of Policing

by Alex S. Vitale ...

**The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

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**The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates
... Read more

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