8 Best spirituality books like Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by Ruth King

Cover of Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by Ruth       King

Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

By: Ruth King

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In a moment of racial tension, have you ever tried to simply “shrug off?” your outrage? Or put on a…

If you liked the spirituality plot in Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by Ruth King , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

1. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By: Michael Eric Dyson

4.31

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public."

-Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

"The status quo always favors neutrality which in truth is never neutral at all but supports those who stand against change."

-Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Cover of ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven C. Hayes, Russ Harris

2. ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

By: Steven C. Hayes , Russ Harris

4.41

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Why is it so hard to be happy? Why is life so difficult? Why do humans suffer so much? And what can… read more

Similar categories in Steven C. Hayes's ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald

3. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

By: Mahzarin R. Banaji , Anthony G. Greenwald

3.73

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

“Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudice… read more

Similar categories in Mahzarin R. Banaji's Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • race
  • education
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • self help
Cover of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Jack Kornfield, Daniel J. Siegel, Rick     Hanson, Richard Mendius

4. Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

By: Jack Kornfield , Daniel J. Siegel , Rick Hanson , Richard Mendius

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like any… read more

Similar categories in Jack Kornfield's Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

5. 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 Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

6. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

By: Daniel José Older , Edwidge Danticat , Jesmyn Ward , Honorée Fanonne Jeffers , Claudia Rankine , Kevin Young , Carol Anderson , Isabel Wilkerson , Mitchell S. Jackson , Kiese Laymon , Natasha Trethewey , Clint Smith , None , Garnette Cadogan , None , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, T… read more

Similar categories in Daniel José Older's The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

7. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

Similar categories in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

8. The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

By: Jack Kornfield

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshak… read more

Similar categories in Jack Kornfield's The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

9. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

By: Robin D.G. Kelley

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of th… read more

Similar categories in Robin D.G. Kelley's Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

10. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

11. Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

By: Stephen Cope

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Cope's Yoga and the Quest for the True Self book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

12. Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race

By: Debby Irving

3.29

Format: 178 pages, ebook

Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her someti… read more

Similar categories in Debby Irving's Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

13. Jesus and the Disinherited

By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more

Similar categories in Vincent Harding's Jesus and the Disinherited book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

Cover of King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

14. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Eig's King: A Life book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds

15. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

By: Jason Reynolds

4.48

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning for ages 12 and up. A time… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"Science says the races are biologically equal so if they're not in society, the only reason why can be racism."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"...leads back to the question of whether you, reader, want to be a segregationist (a hater), an assimilationist (a coward), or an antiracist (someone who truly loves)."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"The first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past. By acknowledging America's racist past, we can acknowledge America's racist present. In acknowledging America'…"

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: I’m sure you’ve heard of this one. If you live in the South and go to a diverse school, this is why. This was the case that said racial segregation in public school…"

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Cover of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

16. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

Similar categories in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • self help
  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Cover of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem

17. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

By: Resmaa Menakem

4.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more

Similar categories in Resmaa Menakem's My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • self help
"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

Cover of How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron

18. How We Live Is How We Die

By: Pema Chodron

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more

Similar categories in Pema Chodron's How We Live Is How We Die book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • audiobook
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing by David A. Treleaven

19. Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

By: David A. Treleaven

4.40

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

"[A] rare combination of solid scholarship, clinically useful methods, and passionate advocacy for … read more

Similar categories in David A. Treleaven's Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Posttraumatic stress fundamentally challenges the notion that time can heal all wounds."

-David A. Treleaven, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

Cover of Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle

20. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

By: James Bridle

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more

Similar categories in James Bridle's Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

Cover of Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander

21. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

By: Kwame Alexander

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poet… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Alexander's Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in"

-Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

Cover of The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

22. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Cover of Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir by Iliana Regan

23. Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir

By: Iliana Regan

3.54

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, … read more

Similar categories in Iliana Regan's Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects by Joanna Macy

24. Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

By: Joanna Macy

4.28

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Inspiration, practices, and meditations to empower us in the face of planetary “True wisdom for to… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Macy's Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix

25. Build Yourself a Boat

By: Camonghne Felix

4.07

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

2019 National Book Award Longlist A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from awa… read more

Similar categories in Camonghne Felix's Build Yourself a Boat book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Thriving Adolescent: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology to Help Teens Manage Emotions, Achieve Goals, and Build Connection by Louise L. Hayes

26. The Thriving Adolescent: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology to Help Teens Manage Emotions, Achieve Goals, and Build Connection

By: Louise L. Hayes

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Adolescents face unique pressures and worries. Will they pass high school? Should they go to colleg… read more

Similar categories in Louise L. Hayes's The Thriving Adolescent: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology to Help Teens Manage Emotions, Achieve Goals, and Build Connection book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • nonfiction
Cover of Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by Ruth       King

27. Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

By: Ruth King

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In a moment of racial tension, have you ever tried to simply “shrug off?” your outrage? Or put on a… read more

Similar categories in Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • self help
  • buddhism
  • race
  • politics
  • education
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
Cover of The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom

28. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry

By: Chichi Agorom

4.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"Chichi Agorom's voice is a part of the reckoning that has been needed in the culture of the Enneag… read more

Similar categories in Chichi Agorom's The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of You Belong: A Call for Connection by Sebene Selassie

29. You Belong: A Call for Connection

By: Sebene Selassie

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From much-admired meditation expert and Western Buddhist thought leader, You Belong is a social and… read more

Similar categories in Sebene Selassie's You Belong: A Call for Connection book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • self help
  • buddhism
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community by Larry Yang

30. Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

By: Larry Yang

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

“ Awakening Together combines the intimately personal, the Buddhist and universal into a loving, co… read more

Similar categories in Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • race
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • spirituality
Cover of A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness: The Comprehensive Session-by-Session Program for Mental Health Professionals and Health Care Providers by Christiane Wolf

31. A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness: The Comprehensive Session-by-Session Program for Mental Health Professionals and Health Care Providers

By: Christiane Wolf

4.44

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Mindfulness-based interventions have exploded in popularity due to their success in treating everyt… read more

Similar categories in Christiane Wolf's A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness: The Comprehensive Session-by-Session Program for Mental Health Professionals and Health Care Providers book and Ruth King's Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm

  • nonfiction

11 must-read self help books like Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by Ruth King

Transform Your Habits

ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Steven C. Hayes , Russ Harris

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

Mahzarin R. Banaji , Anthony G. Greenwald

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Jack Kornfield , Daniel J. Siegel , Rick Hanson , Richard Mendius

4.25

Transform Your Habits

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

4.17

View all the books

12 must-read audiobook books like White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Transform Your Habits

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.