5 best-selling memoir books like Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party by Don Cox

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Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

By: Don Cox

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This is Don Cox's revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He p…

If you liked the memoir plot in Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party by Don Cox , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Black Like Me

By: John Howard Griffin

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Usi… read more

Similar categories in John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me book and Don Cox's Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • memoir
"Now you go into oblivion."

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

"We need a conversion of morals,"

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

"Night coming tenderly Black like me."

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

"In the context of today, this WAS heroism."

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

Cover of Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

2. Soul on Ice

By: Eldridge Cleaver

3.97

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way the United States loo… read more

Similar categories in Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice book and Don Cox's Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle her…"

-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice

"The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder, really, unless the victim is white. And it was only when the newspapers and magazines started carrying pictures and s…"

-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice

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3. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

Similar categories in Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America book and Don Cox's Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

4. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

Similar categories in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) book and Don Cox's Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

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5. Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr

By: James Carr

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

BAD: The Autobiography of James Carr, is the harrowingly brutal and unapologetic story of the notor… read more

Similar categories in James Carr's Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr book and Don Cox's Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • memoir
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6. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House book and Don Cox's Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Cover of Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party by Don Cox

7. Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

By: Don Cox

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This is Don Cox's revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He p… read more

Similar categories in Don Cox's Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party book and Don Cox's Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tragic Magic: A Novel by Wesley Brown

8. Tragic Magic: A Novel

By: Wesley Brown

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

Book by Brown, Wesley read more

Similar categories in Wesley Brown's Tragic Magic: A Novel book and Don Cox's Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party

5 Top history books like Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party by Don Cox

Transform Your Habits

Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2.89

Transform Your Habits

Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr

James Carr

3.67

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5 Best classics books like Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

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The Mis-Education of the Negro

Carter G. Woodson , H. Khalif Khalifah

4.48

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Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Black Boy

Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

4.08

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