Finding the Beautiful Path
On Blackness, Multidimensionality, and Radical BecomingBy Jeremiah J. Sims, Ph.D.
Length14h 7m
About this audiobook
Finding the Beautiful Path is memoir, a story of resistance, healing, and most of all love. Drawing on my lived experience and scholarly journey—from the streets of Richmond to the halls of UC Berkeley—I offer a deeply personal meditation on what it means to be Black, whole, and free in a world hellbent on your erasure. This is not just theory; it’s testimony. It’s not just critique; it’s love. Through the lenses of Critical Race Theory, trauma studies, and radical love, I trace the ways Blackness has been flattened and criminalized—while affirming Black life in its full, multidimensional radiance. This book is an offering—a radical invitation to re-member us and imagine otherwise. Because we are not nouns to be defined by trauma; we are verbs. We are movement. We are always becoming. This is the realest work I’ve ever written. Not because I had to—but because I needed to. Because finding the beautiful path is not just possible—it’s urgent. And it begins with telling the truth.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length14 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Finding the Beautiful Path
7The Wound—the Pain That Shapes Us (Origins, Struggle, and Injustice) Part 1
2Jeremiah J. Sims
8The Wound—the Pain That Shapes Us (Origins, Struggle, and Injustice) Part 2
3Advanced Praise
9The Wound—the Pain That Shapes Us (Origins, Struggle, and Injustice) Part 3
4Advanced Praise continued
10The Wound—the Pain That Shapes Us (Origins, Struggle, and Injustice) Part 4
5Acknowledgments
11PART III Part 1
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6Introduction: Please Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself
12PART III Part 2
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