8 must-read race books like Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell S. Jackson

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Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

By: Mitchell S. Jackson

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversatio…

If you liked the race plot in Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell S. Jackson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Cost of Courage

By: Charles Kaiser

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked tog… read more

Similar categories in Charles Kaiser's The Cost of Courage book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

2. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By: Nancy Isenberg

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Isenberg's White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

3. Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381

By: Dan Jones

4.00

Format: 268 pages,

Re-evaluation of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Dan Jones brings to life the squalor, drama and comp… read more

Similar categories in Dan Jones's Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

4. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

3.65

Format: 192 pages,

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

5. Devil at My Heels

By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin

3.86

Format: None pages,

The inspirational and extraordinarymemoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation,… read more

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6. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more

Similar categories in Ruha Benjamin's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

7. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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8. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

By: T Kira Madden

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age … read more

Similar categories in T Kira Madden's Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If there are real men, I haven't met them yet."

-T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

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9. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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10. Sink: A Memoir

By: Joseph Earl Thomas

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous h… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Earl Thomas's Sink: A Memoir book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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11. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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13. War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

By: Ronan Farrow

4.15

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the … read more

Similar categories in Ronan Farrow's War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What happened to the missing prisoners? How did these men and boys end up in such a tomb, in such a place? And, a question no one inside the US government wanted to touch for more than a decade after…"

-Ronan Farrow, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

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14. The Night Parade

By: Jami Nakamura Lin

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more

Similar categories in Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

By: Mitchell S. Jackson

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversatio… read more

Similar categories in Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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16. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3) book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

Cover of Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins

17. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

By: Morgan Jerkins

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Jerkins's Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg

18. Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

By: Steve Luxenberg

4.18

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the… read more

Similar categories in Steve Luxenberg's Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • race
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
Cover of The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

19. The Rich People Have Gone Away

By: Regina Porter

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more

Similar categories in Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • audiobook
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20. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Pelosi's The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems by Julayne Lee

21. Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems

By: Julayne Lee

3.84

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A provocative and furious book about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-count… read more

Similar categories in Julayne Lee's Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems book and Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • anti racist

14 Top audiobook books like Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell S. Jackson

Transform Your Habits

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Transform Your Habits

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

T Kira Madden

4.26

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25 best-selling audiobook books like Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins

Transform Your Habits

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Myriam Gurba

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Annalee Newitz

3.79

Transform Your Habits

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

Raja Shehadeh

4.19

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