7 must-read history books like Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman

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Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

By: Robert Chapman

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the  invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo…

If you liked the history plot in Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat

By: J. Sakai

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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2. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

By: Steve Silberman

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more

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3. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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4. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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5. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

By: Pete Wharmby

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more

Similar categories in Pete Wharmby's Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."

-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

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6. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

Similar categories in Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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7. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Manne's Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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8. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

By: Cory Doctorow

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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10. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

Similar categories in Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • disability
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11. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Lewis's Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

By: Nick Walker

4.37

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on h… read more

Similar categories in Nick Walker's Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
"If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs mo…"

-Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

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13. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

Similar categories in Micha Frazer-Carroll's Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • politics
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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14. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Kubrick: An Odyssey

By: Robert P. Kolker

4.26

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey , The Shining , and A Clockwork Or… read more

Similar categories in Robert P. Kolker's Kubrick: An Odyssey book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K. Rosa

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy

By: Stephanie Jones

4.51

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

"This is the book that would've saved me nine different therapists, decades of self-analysis, thous… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Jones's The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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18. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

Similar categories in Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • nonfiction
  • history
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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19. NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea

By: Judy Singer

4.01

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Judy Singer is generally credited with the coinage of the word that became the banner for the last … read more

Similar categories in Judy Singer's NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • disability
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
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20. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

By: Robert Chapman

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the  invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more

Similar categories in Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • history
  • disability
  • politics
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • adhd
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21. We're All Neurodiverse

By: Sonny Jane Wise

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"Neurodiversity has helped me understand myself and provided a sense of relief that I'm a whole neu… read more

Similar categories in Sonny Jane Wise's We're All Neurodiverse book and Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

  • disability
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
"Identifying as neurodivergent isn't just another label; it's also an identity, it's a reclamation, it's a song. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are reclaiming our differences that society c…"

-Sonny Jane Wise, We're All Neurodiverse

11 Best politics books like Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

Kate Manne

4.25

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12 Best nonfiction books like NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea by Judy Singer

Transform Your Habits

Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World

Candace Savage

3.87

Transform Your Habits

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

Oliver Sacks

2.84

Transform Your Habits

ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

Edward M. Hallowell

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

Douglas W. Tallamy

4.35

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