18 Best memoir books like Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy

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Similar categories in Eula Biss's On Immunity: An Inoculation book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• parenting
• history
• memoir
• nonfiction
• essays

"The problem has not been finding a place where I belong, which is how a children's book might tell it, but of finding ways of insisting on belonging nowhere."

-Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

"Consider relationships of dependence,' my sister suggests. 'You don't own your body- that's not what we are, our bodies aren't independent. The health of our bodies always depends on choices other pe…"

-Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

"And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by …"

-Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

"I know you're on my side," an immunologist once remarked to me as we discussed the politics of vaccination. I did not agree with him, but only because I was uncomfortable with both sides, as I had se…"

-Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

Similar categories in Marie Kondō's Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nonfiction

"I want to live my life in such a way that it colors my things with memories."

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

"Mi resi conto che il valore degli oggetti di cui ho goduto da sola è decisamente minore del valore degli oggetti che mi ricordano i bei momenti trascorsi insieme agli altri."

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

"«No necesitas una guía, porque el éxito depende en un 90 por ciento de tu manera de pensar». Sé que no importa cuántos conocimientos pueda tener alguien: si no cambia su manera de pensar, se rendirá."

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

"Quando uso il termine «elettrico», intendo tutti gli oggetti che hanno un «odore» elettrico, che emanano una sorta di aroma pungente, formicolante; quindi procedete a riordinare il komomo elettrico u…"

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• parenting
• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays
• womens

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• feminism
• race
• nonfiction
• essays

Similar categories in Chip Heath's The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• feminism
• nonfiction
• memoir
• essays

Similar categories in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

Similar categories in Kelly Corrigan's Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's LaRose book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

Similar categories in Oscar Hokeah's Calling for a Blanket Dance book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• race

"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nature
• nonfiction
• memoir
• essays

"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Similar categories in Becky Kennedy's Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nonfiction
• parenting

Similar categories in Michelle Porter's A Grandmother Begins the Story book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

Similar categories in Tressie McMillan Cottom's Thick: And Other Essays book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• race
• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays

"I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me."

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"Indeed, any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?"

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"Smart is only a construct of correspondence between one's abilities, one's environment, and one's moment in history. I am smart in the right way, in the right time, on the right end of globalization."

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"The networks of capital, be they politics or organizations, work most effeciently when your lowedst status characteristic is assumed. And once these gears are in motion, you can never be competent en…"

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

Similar categories in Jessica Grose's Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• parenting
• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• womens

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nonfiction
• memoir
• essays

"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Similar categories in Cole Arthur Riley's This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nonfiction
• memoir
• essays

"Anxiety is not a passive predator."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

Similar categories in Angela Garbes's Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• parenting
• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays
• womens

"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

Similar categories in Beth Nguyen's Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• race
• nonfiction
• memoir

Similar categories in Gina Chung's Sea Change book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

Similar categories in Hila Blum's How to Love Your Daughter book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

Similar categories in Sue Black's Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nonfiction
• history

"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"

-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nonfiction
• memoir
• essays

"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

Similar categories in Jazmina Barrera's Linea Nigra book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• parenting
• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays
• womens

"Una amiga me contó de Mary Shelley, que estaba embarazada mientras escribía Frankenstein. Era evidente, y sin embargo todas las veces que leí la novela no lo había visto: Fran­kenstein es una histori…"

-Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra

Similar categories in Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• history
• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays

"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

Similar categories in Angela Garbes's Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• parenting
• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• womens

"The origins of the placenta can be traced back to a virus."

-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

"Her enthusiasm for the organ is contagious. Enough to convince you that the alphabet posters in kindergarten classrooms should declare that "P" is for 'placenta'..."

-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

"The foundation of the female pelvis is composed of two hip bones, which come together to form a deep bowl that is filled by the uterus, ovaries, bladder, urethra, vagina, and colon."

-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

"Throughout pregnancy, I liked to lie in bed and imagine all the changes happening inside me: cells splitting, fingernails and eyelashes growing, veins spreading, brain and gray matter forming and fol…"

-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

Similar categories in Leah Myers's Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nonfiction
• race
• history
• memoir

"I wonder if I will ever feel Native enough."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"You don't have the right to define my identity."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"She gave up herself and her identity for security."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"My home is in Georgia, but my soul is at home here."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Similar categories in Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• nonfiction
• history
• memoir

Similar categories in Emily Raboteau's Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• race
• parenting
• memoir
• nonfiction
• essays

Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History book and Camille T. Dungy's Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

• race
• parenting
• history
• memoir
• travel
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays
• womens
• nature

"A person who isn't reminded several times a day about the implications of the color of her skin has time to consider the implications of other things."

-Camille T. Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History