5 must-read social justice books like The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity by Naomi Evans

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The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

By: Naomi Evans

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | …

If you liked the social justice plot in The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity by Naomi Evans , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Nana, Vol. 6

By: Ai Yazawa

4.51

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny!… read more

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2. The Good Immigrant

By: Nikesh Shukla

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? … read more

Similar categories in Nikesh Shukla's The Good Immigrant book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • race
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

3. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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4. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Fix the System, Not the Women book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • society
  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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5. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Joseph's Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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7. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

Similar categories in Saba Sams's Send Nudes book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • adult
  • audiobook
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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8. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • adult
  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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9. Rainbow Milk

By: Paul Mendez

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follow… read more

Similar categories in Paul Mendez's Rainbow Milk book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • race
  • adult
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10. Dark Days

By: James Baldwin

4.40

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's Dark Days book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

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11. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

By: Akala

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more

Similar categories in Akala's Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • race
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • anti racist
  • society
  • audiobook
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

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12. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

By: Sofie Hagen

4.05

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

'I'm hungry to go on this journey. Sofie is smashing and remoulding her readers understanding of se… read more

Similar categories in Sofie Hagen's Will I Ever Have Sex Again? book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. Fire Rush

By: Jacqueline Crooks

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Crooks's Fire Rush book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • race
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Yoga Manifesto

By: Nadia Gilani

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged? Nadia Gilani has be… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Gilani's The Yoga Manifesto book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • nonfiction
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15. UNMASKED

By: Ellie Middleton

4.24

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Middleton's UNMASKED book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

By: Emma Dabiri

4.41

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more

Similar categories in Emma Dabiri's What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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17. Dont Touch My Hair

By: Emma Dabiri

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Guardian contributor BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes an essay collection exploring th… read more

Similar categories in Emma Dabiri's Dont Touch My Hair book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • race
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"The words we use to describe Afro hair do not relate to its texture and, judged by another's metric, it will always come up lacking. But we do not possess a list of words that reflect the qualities o…"

-Emma Dabiri, Dont Touch My Hair

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18. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By: Afua Hirsch

4.32

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain… read more

Similar categories in Afua Hirsch's Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • race
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants."

-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

"What makes those with perceived 'English' identities different from others in the UK? One answer is that, unlike Wales, Northern ireland and Scotland, with their devolved legislatures, separate langu…"

-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

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19. Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

By: David Harewood

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'… read more

Similar categories in David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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20. Posh Boys

By: Robert Verkaik

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are… read more

Similar categories in Robert Verkaik's Posh Boys book and Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
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21. The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

By: Naomi Evans

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | … read more

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  • race
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • anti racist
  • society
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

4.52

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Send Nudes

Saba Sams

3.53

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The List

Yomi Adegoke

3.05

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Paul Mendez

3.87

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Claire Keegan

4.00

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Coco Mellors

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