16 Best race books like 1919 by Eve L. Ewing

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1919

By: Eve L. Ewing

4.51

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Poetic reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our d…

If you liked the race plot in 1919 by Eve L. Ewing , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • social justice
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2. Counting Descent

By: Clint Smith

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to com… read more

Similar categories in Clint Smith's Counting Descent book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
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3. A People's History of Chicago

By: Kevin Coval , None , Chancellor Bennett

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Known variously as "'the Windy City,"' "'the City of Big Shoulders,"' or "'Chi-Raq,"' Chicago is on… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Coval's A People's History of Chicago book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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4. Prelude to Bruise

By: Saeed Jones

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

From "Sleeping Arrangement": Take your hand out from under my pillow. And take your sheets with you… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Jones's Prelude to Bruise book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • african american
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5. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

Similar categories in Layli Long Soldier's Whereas book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

6. I Am Alfonso Jones

By: John Jennings , Stacey Robinson , None

3.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Alfonso Jones can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classi… read more

Similar categories in John Jennings's I Am Alfonso Jones book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • social justice

7. Mules and Men

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

Mules and Menis a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and ant… read more

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8. Nox

By: Anne Carson

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Noxis an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and create… read more

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9. From #blacklivesmatter To Black Liberation

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

4.80

Format: 360 pages,

The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Misso… read more

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10. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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11. Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

By: Kwame Alexander

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Alexander's Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
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12. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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13. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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14. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

By: Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more

Similar categories in Melania Luisa Marte's Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

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15. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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16. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Homie book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

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17. Quiet

By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley

4.12

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Adukwei Bulley's Quiet book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
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18. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

Similar categories in Clint Smith's Above Ground book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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19. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
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20. 1919

By: Eve L. Ewing

4.51

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Poetic reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our d… read more

Similar categories in Eve L. Ewing's 1919 book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
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21. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's Soft Science book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • adult
"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

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22. Magical Negro

By: Morgan Parker

4.31

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnog… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's Magical Negro book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
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23. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Abolition. Feminism. Now. book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • social justice
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24. The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

By: Sally Wen Mao

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice”… read more

Similar categories in Sally Wen Mao's The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. You're Not a Girl in a Movie

By: Hala Alyan

4.07

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Ara… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's You're Not a Girl in a Movie book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Oceanic

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Oceanic book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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27. A Fortune for Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: None pages, None

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's A Fortune for Your Disaster book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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28. Guillotine: Poems

By: Eduardo C. Corral

4.34

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more

Similar categories in Eduardo C. Corral's Guillotine: Poems book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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29. Say Her Name

By: Zetta Elliott

4.34

Format: 90 pages, None

For ages 12 and up. Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Fo… read more

Similar categories in Zetta Elliott's Say Her Name book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • race
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets) by Su Cho

30. The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets)

By: Su Cho

3.83

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about i… read more

Similar categories in Su Cho's The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets) book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice

By: Jesse Hagopian

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Black Lives Matter at School is an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist … read more

Similar categories in Jesse Hagopian's Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice book and Eve L. Ewing's 1919

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • audiobook

15 Best adult books like 1919 by Eve L. Ewing

Transform Your Habits

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Kwame Alexander

4.31

Transform Your Habits

An American Sunrise

Joy Harjo

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

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11 best-selling adult books like Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope by Kwame Alexander

Transform Your Habits

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Kwame Alexander

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Amanda Gorman

4.56

Transform Your Habits

For Every One

Jason Reynolds

4.30

Transform Your Habits

An American Sunrise

Joy Harjo

4.28

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