11 must-read nonfiction books like Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century by Tey Meadow

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Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

By: Tey Meadow

4.20

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Trans Kids  is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of famili…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century by Tey Meadow , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7)

By: None , Victor M. Rios

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California in the 1980s and 90s. A former gang member… read more

Similar categories in None's Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7) book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • read for school
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2. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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3. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

Similar categories in Virginie Despentes's King Kong théorie book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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4. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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5. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

By: Matthew Desmond

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • nonfiction
  • sociology

6. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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7. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

By: Roxane Gay

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more

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8. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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9. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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10. When the Emperor Was Divine

By: Julie Otsuka

3.29

Format: None pages,

Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more

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11. The River

By: Peter Heller

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip—of a friendship tested by fire, white w… read more

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"He had a few good friends who respected him and would do anything for him. Why did anyone else need to be impressed?"

-Peter Heller, The River

"Late August, a clear night becoming cold. There was no aurora borealis, just the dense sparks of the stars blown from their own ancient fire."

-Peter Heller, The River

"And the eagles. They seemed to mark the canoe's progress from the gray spires of dead spruce, spaced downriver like watchmen on some lost frontier..."

-Peter Heller, The River

"Rich people are another species. Sort of lost in their own way. It's a good thing they have country clubs and shit because it keeps them kinda corralled up in one place."

-Peter Heller, The River

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12. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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13. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

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"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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14. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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15. These Violent Delights

By: Micah Nemerever

3.97

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately dr… read more

Similar categories in Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • queer
  • lgbt
"There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,"

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"In the end, there wasn’t any difference between trusting someone and underestimating them."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

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16. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

By: Eve L. Ewing

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”   That’s how Eve L. Ewing ope… read more

Similar categories in Eve L. Ewing's Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks

17. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

By: Virginia Eubanks

4.01

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and hum… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Eubanks's Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts

18. Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

By: Dorothy Roberts

4.55

Format: 384 pages, Audiobook

An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for … read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Roberts's Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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19. Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

By: Carolyn Chen

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity Silicon Va… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Chen's Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • read for school
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20. Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America (Alternative Criminology, 16)

By: Jeanne Flavin

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of th e 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Ge… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Flavin's Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America (Alternative Criminology, 16) book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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21. Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

By: Tey Meadow

4.20

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Trans Kids  is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of famili… read more

Similar categories in Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century book and Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • academic
  • read for school
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • queer

9 must-read sociology books like Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century by Tey Meadow

Transform Your Habits

Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7)

None , Victor M. Rios

4.29

Transform Your Habits

All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

Eve L. Ewing

4.39

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16 Best audiobook books like When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

Transform Your Habits

Trust

Hernan Diaz

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cormac McCarthy

3.58

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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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