close
A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America Audiobook, by Elliott Currie Play Audiobook Sample

A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America Audiobook

A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America Audiobook, by Elliott Currie Play Audiobook Sample
FlexPass™ Price: $15.95
$9.95 for new members!
(Includes UNLIMITED podcast listening)
  • Love your audiobook or we'll exchange it
  • No credits to manage, just big savings
  • Unlimited podcast listening
Add to Cart
$9.95/m - cancel anytime - 
learn more
OR
Regular Price: $19.99 Add to Cart
Read By: Sean Patrick Hopkins Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250772459

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

74:54 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

29 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

37:04 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injustice About 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a fifteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Even black women suffer violent death at a higher rate than white men, despite homicide’s usual gender patterns. Yet while the country has been rightly outraged by the recent spate of police killings of black Americans, the shocking amount of “everyday” violence that plagues African American communities receives far less attention, and has nearly disappeared as a target of public policy. As acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie makes clear, this pervasive violence is a direct result of the continuing social and economic marginalization of many black communities in America. Those conditions help perpetuate a level of preventable trauma and needless suffering that has no counterpart anywhere in the developed world. Compelling and accessible, drawing on a rich array of both classic and contemporary research, A Peculiar Indifference describes the dimensions and consequences of this enduring emergency, explains its causes, and offers an urgent plea for long-overdue social action to end it. A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books

Download and start listening now!

“Currie’s book is the first comprehensive study to present a meta-analysis of peer-reviewed research—a study of studies—showing how anti-Black racism in the form of state and private violence upholds ‘an essentially exploitative and discriminatory social order’…This is not a Black crisis but a national emergency.”

— New York Times Book Review

Quotes

  • “Jaw-dropping…The most powerful takeaway from A Peculiar Indifference is that to prove once and for all that Black lives matter, Americans must stop ignoring the violence devastating Black communities.”

    — The Progressive
  • “An infuriatingly necessary read…What Currie’s numbers show is a crisis with no signs of abating. Especially as long as the country turns a blind eye to it.”

    — PopMatters
  • “A damning examination of violence in black America and a call for intervention that is long overdue… Meticulously researched and densely packed with stats and studies.”

    — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Awards

  • New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
  • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
  • Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2020
  • Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2020

A Peculiar Indifference Listener Reviews

Be the first to write a review about this audiobook!