11 Best race books like Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph

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Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

By: Frederick Joseph

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this personal and poignant collection, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Black Fri…

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1. The Geek Feminist Revolution

By: Kameron Hurley

3.32

Format: 344 pages,

A powerful collection of essays on feminism, geek culture, and a writer's journey, from one of the … read more

Similar categories in Kameron Hurley's The Geek Feminist Revolution book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays

2. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

3. A Burst of Light

By: Audre Lorde

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Black freedom fighter's strength and signifying words. Essays. 1989 Before Columbus Foundation Amer… read more

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's A Burst of Light book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

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4. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

Similar categories in Michael Harriot's Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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5. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

By: Lucy Sante

3.70

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Sante's I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

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6. 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 Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • race
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • anti racist
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7. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall

4.37

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more

Similar categories in Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • anti racist
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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8. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Hersey's Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • race
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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9. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

By: Linda Villarosa

4.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more

Similar categories in Linda Villarosa's Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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10. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • gender
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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11. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

Similar categories in Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
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12. Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle

By: Danté Stewart

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black worldIn Shoutin… read more

Similar categories in Danté Stewart's Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • anti racist
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13. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

By: Laura Warrell

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

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14. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Lithwick's Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"

-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

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15. Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

By: Savala Nolan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between … read more

Similar categories in Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • race
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • anti racist
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16. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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17. The Fae Keeper (Witch King #2)

By: H.E. Edgmon

4.20

Format: 304 pages, ebook

In the heart-stopping sequel to The Witch King, Wyatt and Emyr attempt to rebuild Asalin despite un… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's The Fae Keeper (Witch King #2) book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

"There you are,"

-H.E. Edgmon, The Fae Keeper (Witch King #2)

"You see me as a boy?"

-H.E. Edgmon, The Fae Keeper (Witch King #2)

"You know me as Wyatt,"

-H.E. Edgmon, The Fae Keeper (Witch King #2)

"You said you know why we’re here,"

-H.E. Edgmon, The Fae Keeper (Witch King #2)

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18. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • race
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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19. Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

By: Frederick Joseph

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this personal and poignant collection, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Black Fri… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • race
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • anti racist
Cover of Abolition For The People by Colin Kaepernick

20. Abolition For The People

By: Colin Kaepernick

4.09

Format: None pages, None

Edited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolitio… read more

Similar categories in Colin Kaepernick's Abolition For The People book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
Cover of Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré

21. Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street

By: Cin Fabré

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom―at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabré ran with the w… read more

Similar categories in Cin Fabré's Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street book and Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

11 Best politics books like Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph

Transform Your Habits

The Geek Feminist Revolution

Kameron Hurley

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

4.59

Transform Your Habits

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

Andre Henry

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

4.37

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26 Best fiction books like The Fae Keeper (Witch King #2) by H.E. Edgmon

Transform Your Habits

Otherworldly

F.T. Lukens

3.99

Transform Your Habits

All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

Foz Meadows

4.20

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Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Venom & Vow

Anna-Marie McLemore

3.73

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