9 Top race books like Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

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Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

By: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological?Growing up as …

If you liked the race plot in Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. 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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2. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

By: Carol Anderson

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our cont… read more

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3. Nigeria Jones

By: Ibi Zoboi

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria’s father calls her. He’s raised her as part of the Movemen… read more

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4. The Blueprint

By: Rae Giana Rashad

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A captivating debut exploring power imbalances, bodily autonomy, love, and the generational legacy … read more

Similar categories in Rae Giana Rashad's The Blueprint book and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

  • race
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5. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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6. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

By: Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

By: Jason De León

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, b… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more

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"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

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9. Loteria

By: Cynthia Pelayo

3.46

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance. It is similar to our American bingo. However… read more

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10. You Make It Feel Like Christmas

By: Toni Shiloh

3.38

Format: 208 pages, ebook

Starr Lewis reluctantly returns home for the holidays jobless, single, and not at all prepared to b… read more

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"I really want to kiss you."

-Toni Shiloh, You Make It Feel Like Christmas

"It was time to let the hurt go, even if Angel never said she was sorry."

-Toni Shiloh, You Make It Feel Like Christmas

"Starr’s voice had gotten quiet. Waylon couldn’t sit by and let her get railroaded by her obnoxious sister."

-Toni Shiloh, You Make It Feel Like Christmas

"Starr wanted to roll her eyes at his political grin. How had she ever thought him to be sincere and trustworthy?"

-Toni Shiloh, You Make It Feel Like Christmas

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11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

  • biography memoir
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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12. The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are

By: Tariq Trotter

4.20

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

“Tariq Trotter . . . could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. Like the Russian novelist, Mr. Trotter has ref… read more

Similar categories in Tariq Trotter's The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are book and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

Similar categories in Susan Lieu's The Manicurist's Daughter book and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

  • biography memoir
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. You Were Always Mine

By: Christine Pride

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” ( The Washington Post ) and Good M… read more

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  • race
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15. A History of Burning

By: Janika Oza

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more

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"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."

-Janika Oza, A History of Burning

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16. Daughter of the Merciful Deep

By: Leslye Penelope

4.01

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historic… read more

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17. Pieces of Blue

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Bursting with humor, chaos, and raw tenderness." ―Oprah Daily " Pieces of Blue is a brilliant a… read more

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18. Cinema Love

By: Jiaming Tang

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more

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19. Forever Is Now

By: Mariama J. Lockington

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and lyrical young adult novel-in-verse about a Black teen coming of age in an anxiety-in… read more

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20. The Gardins of Edin

By: Rosey Lee

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When the bonds in their family begin to fray, four Black women fight to preserve their legacy, heal… read more

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"I pray for Your guidance, and I ask that the small morsel of courage I feel right now grows and remains greater than any fear that may arise."

-Rosey Lee, The Gardins of Edin

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21. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

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22. Weird Black Girls

By: Elwin Cotman

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories th… read more

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  • race
"Alone without purpose, they fell asleep."

-Elwin Cotman, Weird Black Girls

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23. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

  • race
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24. Where They Last Saw Her

By: Marcie R. Rendon

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series, a harrowing novel of a Native American … read more

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25. A New Race of Men from Heaven

By: Chaitali Sen

4.26

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

A New Race of Men from Heaven is a collection of stories about characters who wander but are never … read more

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26. The Rich People Have Gone Away

By: Regina Porter

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more

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27. Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

By: Joel Leon

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For Readers of Heavy , Punch Me Up to The Gods , and A Little Devil in America , a beautiful, painf… read more

Similar categories in Joel Leon's Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future book and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

  • biography memoir
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"To be black is to be seen by everyone and no one at all."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

"Blackness is love, to me. To be loved is also very Black."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

"There is almost always something at stake, something to live for and fight for."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

"Bet ya’ moms woulda twerked for MLK if he came down 138th and the Grand Concourse."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

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28. We Came to Welcome You

By: Vincent Tirado

3.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut f… read more

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29. Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

By: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological?Growing up as … read more

Similar categories in Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth book and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

  • biography memoir
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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30. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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31. We Will Be Jaguars (Reese's Book Club Pick): A Memoir of My People

By: Nemonte Nenquimo

4.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist, We Will Be Jaguars is an impassioned memoir ab… read more

Similar categories in Nemonte Nenquimo's We Will Be Jaguars (Reese's Book Club Pick): A Memoir of My People book and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton's Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

9 Top nonfiction books like Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

Transform Your Habits

The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Jason De León

4.37

Transform Your Habits

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are

Tariq Trotter

4.20

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20 Best fiction books like We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado

Transform Your Habits

We Used to Live Here

Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Night Guest

Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Heads Will Roll

Josh Winning

3.69

Transform Your Habits

So Thirsty

Rachel Harrison

4.03

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