13 Best memoir books like The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging by Samira Mehta

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The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

By: Samira Mehta

3.98

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces…

If you liked the memoir plot in The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging by Samira Mehta , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's A Living Remedy: A Memoir book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adoption
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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2. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

By: Sharon Brous

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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4. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more

Similar categories in Steven W. Thrasher's The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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5. Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

By: Arline T. Geronimus

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers… read more

Similar categories in Arline T. Geronimus's Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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6. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • audiobook
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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7. All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives

By: Andre Henry

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the on… read more

Similar categories in Andre Henry's All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • audiobook
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8. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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10. The World Record Book of Racist Stories

By: Amber Ruffin

4.40

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedia… read more

Similar categories in Amber Ruffin's The World Record Book of Racist Stories book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • audiobook
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11. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

Similar categories in Wesley Lowery's American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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12. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more

Similar categories in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • audiobook
"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."

-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

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13. Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

By: Leah Myers

3.81

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore… read more

Similar categories in Leah Myers's Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I wonder if I will ever feel Native enough."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"You don't have the right to define my identity."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"She gave up herself and her identity for security."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"My home is in Georgia, but my soul is at home here."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

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14. Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

By: Sheree Renée Thomas

3.79

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing … read more

Similar categories in Sheree Renée Thomas's Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

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15. The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

By: Samira Mehta

3.98

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces… read more

Similar categories in Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • the united states of america
  • adoption
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • audiobook
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16. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan

17. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

By: Jennifer Mullan

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mullan's Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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18. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

By: Schuyler Bailar

4.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more

Similar categories in Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters book and Samira Mehta's The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin

19. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

By: Ava Chin

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"

-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

Cover of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear

20. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

By: Kyo Maclear

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

Cover of The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color (The Social Justice Handbook Series) by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez,

21. The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color (The Social Justice Handbook Series)

By: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez,

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

It’s time to heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit. I… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook

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