Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Audiobook5 hours
Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life
Written by Paula Austin
Narrated by Ron Butler
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
This overview of the everyday lives of black people in an economically and politically restricted Washington, DC is a vital contribution to the history of race in America.
Author
Paula Austin
Paula C. Austin is the assistant professor of history and African American studies at Boston University. She writes and teaches about Black visual culture and African American and civil rights history, and she facilitates faculty professional development on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Related to Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC
Related audiobooks
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud: Heroes Of Freedom And Justice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWaiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The New Negro: An Interpretation Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Southern Horrors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
African American History For You
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 2nd Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5No Sweeter Sound: The History of Black Country Music Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cross and the Lynching Tree Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/512 Years a Slave Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mis-Education of the Negro Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Speeches by Malcolm X, 1925-1965 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Juneteenth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Never Caught Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Carol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 0% found this document usefulMalcolm X - "The Ballot or the Bullet" 100% found this document usefulDr. Allyson Hobbs of Stanford, on Racial Passing: Allyson Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in the Depa… 0% found this document usefulRaising White Kids: Jennifer Harvey: “Interrupting individual acts of racism.” 0% found this document usefulThe C.O.W.S. THE DELECTABLE NEGRO Part 1: The C.O.W.S. THE DELECTABLE NEGRO Part 1 100% found this document usefulEpisode 8: Searching for Justice 0% found this document useful’1619,’ Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built 0% found this document usefulThe C.O.W.S. w/ Dr. Tommy J. Curry Part VIII: The C.O.W.S. w/ Dr. Tommy J. Curry Part VIII 0% found this document usefulCurating Black History: Nicole Cardoza in Conversation with Tyree Boyd-Pates 0% found this document usefulThe C.O.W.S. w/ Dr. Tommy Curry Part VI: The C.O.W.S. w/ Dr. Tommy Curry Part VI 0% found this document usefulEpisode 1: The Lucky Ones 0% found this document usefulThe Red Summer of 1919: The World War I Aftermath 100% found this document usefulThe First Women to Report Jeffrey Epstein 0% found this document usefulCedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023) 0% found this document usefulCarol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump 0% found this document usefulThey Were Her Property: An Interview With Stephanie Jones-Rogers 50% found this document usefulState-Sponsored Segregation: Richard Rothstein: “Government created segregation.” 100% found this document useful
Related articles
Code Switch Book Club, Summer 2019 NPRArticle
Code Switch Book Club, Summer 2019
Jun 20, 2019
8 min readThe Story Of Jim Crow In California High Country NewsArticle
The Story Of Jim Crow In California
Nov 1, 2020
5 min readIn 'Beyond Respectability,' A History of Black Women As Public Intellectuals NPRArticle
In 'Beyond Respectability,' A History of Black Women As Public Intellectuals
Jun 1, 2017
3 min readExploding Myths About 'Black Power, Jewish Politics' NPRArticle
Exploding Myths About 'Black Power, Jewish Politics'
Jun 4, 2018
6 min readThe Intersectionality of Hate The AtlanticArticle
The Intersectionality of Hate
May 17, 2022
6 min read5 Books To Read On Social Justice That Go Beyond The Instructive NPRArticle
5 Books To Read On Social Justice That Go Beyond The Instructive
Jun 18, 2021
6 min readThe FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores The AtlanticArticle
The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores
Feb 19, 2018
6 min readAfter Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church Literary HubArticle
After Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church
Sep 10, 2020
9 min readIn 'Four Hundred Souls,' 90 Writers Tell Their Stories Of 4 Centuries Of African America NPRArticle
In 'Four Hundred Souls,' 90 Writers Tell Their Stories Of 4 Centuries Of African America
Feb 18, 2021
8 min read‘Nobody Wants White Kids to Feel Bad About Their Race’ The AtlanticArticle
‘Nobody Wants White Kids to Feel Bad About Their Race’
Jun 5, 2021
9 min readRecy Taylor's Truth The AtlanticArticle
Recy Taylor's Truth
Jan 10, 2018
8 min readYes, America. People of Color Are Still Sitting Together in the Cafeteria. Here's Why. Chicago TribuneArticle
Yes, America. People of Color Are Still Sitting Together in the Cafeteria. Here's Why.
Nov 6, 2017
3 min read'The Accident Of Color' Looks At The Failure Of Reconstruction NPRArticle
'The Accident Of Color' Looks At The Failure Of Reconstruction
Jun 18, 2019
4 min readYes, Women Could Vote After The 19th Amendment — But Not All Women. Or Men NPRArticle
Yes, Women Could Vote After The 19th Amendment — But Not All Women. Or Men
Aug 26, 2020
5 min readRacism Is Literally Bad For Your Health NPRArticle
Racism Is Literally Bad For Your Health
Oct 28, 2017
2 min readBlack Feminism Is For Everybody WomankindArticle
Black Feminism Is For Everybody
Jan 30, 2019
5 min read'When I Was White' Centers On The Formation Of Race, Identity And Self NPRArticle
'When I Was White' Centers On The Formation Of Race, Identity And Self
Aug 8, 2019
4 min read'Dying Of Whiteness' Tribune Content Agency OpinionsArticle
'Dying Of Whiteness'
May 5, 2019
This is a column about saving whiteness. It's precipitated by an incident last Saturday at a bookstore in Washington. Seems that author Jonathan M. Metzl was giving a presentation when a group of white nationalists barged in. They formed a phalanx be
2 min readWalter Mosley: On Being Black, Being a Writer, and Cave Canem Literary HubArticle
Walter Mosley: On Being Black, Being a Writer, and Cave Canem
Jun 8, 2017
11 min readThe Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism The AtlanticArticle
The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism
Feb 12, 2021
18 min readThe African American Roots of Betsy DeVos's Education Platform The AtlanticArticle
The African American Roots of Betsy DeVos's Education Platform
Jan 18, 2017
5 min readDanielle Geathers Claimed Space For Herself As A Leader On Campus TIMEArticle
Danielle Geathers Claimed Space For Herself As A Leader On Campus
Aug 21, 2020
3 min readTrump’s Not Richard Nixon. He’s Andrew Johnson. Mother JonesArticle
Trump’s Not Richard Nixon. He’s Andrew Johnson.
Dec 10, 2019
15 min readOn Dog Whistle Politics, Gaslighting, and Other Contemporary Political Tools Literary HubArticle
On Dog Whistle Politics, Gaslighting, and Other Contemporary Political Tools
Sep 30, 2019
5 min readThe Ku Klux Klan Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and ChildrenArticle
The Ku Klux Klan
Nov 1, 2020
1 min read“What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?” History of WarArticle
“What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?”
Oct 1, 2020
1 min readA Flawed Case Against Black Self-Defense ReasonArticle
A Flawed Case Against Black Self-Defense
Nov 19, 2021
5 min readThe Racial Wealth Gap Could Become a 2020 Litmus Test The AtlanticArticle
The Racial Wealth Gap Could Become a 2020 Litmus Test
Jan 16, 2019
8 min readBlack America Demands Power in Soul of a Nation Exhibit NewsweekArticle
Black America Demands Power in Soul of a Nation Exhibit
Jul 14, 2017
6 min readHow Tulsa Is Unburying – And Confronting – A History Of Racism The Christian Science MonitorArticle
How Tulsa Is Unburying – And Confronting – A History Of Racism
May 27, 2021
11 min read
Reviews for Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews