6 Best race books like Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School by Courtney E. Martin

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Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School

By: Courtney E. Martin

4.24

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

One mother’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school, and the surprising, necessar…

If you liked the race plot in Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School by Courtney E. Martin , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more

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"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

2. The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap

By: Stephanie Coontz

3.80

Format: 281 pages,

The Way We Never Wereexamines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths … read more

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3. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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5. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

By: Angela Garbes

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America… read more

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  • parenting
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"We are caught between how we were raised and how we really want to live."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible,"

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"Doing this requires knowledge of the history of mothering and care work—how they came to be seen as naturally female, which is to say invisible and undervalued."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"When you become a mother, you engender life, endless possibilities. Mothering is creative in a very literal sense—it is cultivating all that potential, bringing a small person into consciousness."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

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6. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By: Jonathan M. Metzl

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"

-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

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7. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more

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  • parenting
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

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8. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

By: Chris J. Anderson

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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10. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

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11. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
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12. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

By: Laura Meckler

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In th… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • education
  • audiobook
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13. 24/6: Giving Up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection

By: Tiffany Shlain

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Put down your phone and pick up this book” (Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • audiobook
"If we don't wind down, we'll never truly wake up."

-Tiffany Shlain, 24/6: Giving Up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection

"Connecting broadly is meaningless unless we also connect deeply."

-Tiffany Shlain, 24/6: Giving Up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection

"When we succumb to our screens too often, we're just spinning our wheels when we could be going somewhere."

-Tiffany Shlain, 24/6: Giving Up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection

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14. Start with Hello: (And Other Simple Ways to Live as Neighbors)

By: Shannan Martin

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A simple path to a more deeply connected life You want more. You want to belong to a community tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

By: Gregg Colburn

4.23

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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16. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (Critical Perspectives on Youth, 1)

By: Margaret A. Hagerman

4.16

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in… read more

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  • race
  • parenting
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
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18. Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School

By: Courtney E. Martin

4.24

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

One mother’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school, and the surprising, necessar… read more

Similar categories in Courtney E. Martin's Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School book and Courtney E. Martin's Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School

  • race
  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • education
  • audiobook
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19. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

By: Kim Brooks

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most imp… read more

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  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I saw what was happening, the way my privilege was shielding me from the more unpleasant elements of the process, and a part of me recognized that it was wrong to quietly and gratefully accept this p…"

-Kim Brooks, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

"It was a familiar dynamic between the two of us, a dynamic that had probably always been present in our relationship but that parenthood had exacerbated and intensified a hundredfold: my caring about…"

-Kim Brooks, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

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21. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

19 Best audiobook books like Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School by Courtney E. Martin

Transform Your Habits

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Angela Garbes

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Jonathan M. Metzl

4.10

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21 Best audiobook books like Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

Transform Your Habits

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Transform Your Habits

They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy

Isaac Arnsdorf

3.92

Transform Your Habits

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

4.23

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