11 best-selling race books like Magically Black and Other Essays by Jerald Walker

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Magically Black and Other Essays

By: Jerald Walker

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In Magically Black and Other Essays Jerald Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural…

If you liked the race plot in Magically Black and Other Essays by Jerald Walker , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

4.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more

Similar categories in Darrin Bell's The Talk book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Sam Sax

4.18

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more

Similar categories in Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series) book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
Cover of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

4. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By: Jonathan M. Metzl

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan M. Metzl's Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"

-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Cover of The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin

5. The World Record Book of Racist Stories

By: Amber Ruffin

4.40

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedia… read more

Similar categories in Amber Ruffin's The World Record Book of Racist Stories book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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6. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Thunder Song: Essays book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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7. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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8. Abbott

By: Saladin Ahmed

4.02

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncov… read more

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9. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

Similar categories in Carvell Wallace's Another Word for Love: A Memoir book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • audiobook
Cover of Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account by Ernesto Saade

11. Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account

By: Ernesto Saade

3.95

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

"This is the story of Carlos and Elena, the story of thousands, the story of my country . . . This … read more

Similar categories in Ernesto Saade's Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

By: Katherine Rundell

4.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) recko… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
Cover of An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work by Charlotte Shane

13. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work

By: Charlotte Shane

3.28

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Shane's An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. When We Are Seen: How to Come Into Your Power—and Empower Others Along the Way

By: Denise Young

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of the first and few women of color to reach the c-suite in Silicon Valley, Apple’s former… read more

Similar categories in Denise Young's When We Are Seen: How to Come Into Your Power—and Empower Others Along the Way book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
Cover of Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known by George M. Johnson

15. Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known

By: George M. Johnson

4.44

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times–bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essay… read more

Similar categories in George M. Johnson's Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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16. Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more

Similar categories in Cebo Campbell's Sky Full of Elephants book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
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17. We Could Be Rats

By: Emily R. Austin

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and th… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's We Could Be Rats book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

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18. 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

Similar categories in Vincent Tirado's We Came to Welcome You book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • audiobook
Cover of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle

19. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

By: Rebecca Nagle

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Na… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Nagle's By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 (An Ashe Cayne Mystery)

By: Ian K. Smith

4.25

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creatu… read more

Similar categories in Ian K. Smith's Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 (An Ashe Cayne Mystery) book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

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21. Magically Black and Other Essays

By: Jerald Walker

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In Magically Black and Other Essays Jerald Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural… read more

Similar categories in Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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22. 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

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"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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23. We're Alone: Essays

By: Edwidge Danticat

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in… read more

Similar categories in Edwidge Danticat's We're Alone: Essays book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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24. Hungerstone

By: Kat Dunn

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Hungerstone is a thrillingly seductive sapphic romance for fans of S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood a… read more

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25. The River Has Roots

By: Amal El-Mohtar

4.45

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters… read more

Similar categories in Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

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26. The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

By: Carrie Schuettpelz

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of Native American identity, tribal enrollment, ancestry, and what all… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Schuettpelz's The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Visitations

By: Corey Egbert

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by true events, this haunting yet hopeful young adult graphic novel weaves together family… read more

Similar categories in Corey Egbert's Visitations book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

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28. Memorial Days: A Memoir

By: Geraldine Brooks

4.55

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pu… read more

Similar categories in Geraldine Brooks's Memorial Days: A Memoir book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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29. We Lived on the Horizon

By: Erika Swyler

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI as they are drawn into a catastrophic wa… read more

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30. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

By: Omar El Akkad

4.66

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it me… read more

Similar categories in Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Whose non existence is necessary to the self conception of this place?"

-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

"Whose non-existence is necessary to the self-conception of this place?"

-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

"There is a numb overriding grief that colors life in the audience to a slaughter."

-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

"The truth and reconciliation committees are coming. The land acknowledgements are coming. The very sorry descendants are coming."

-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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31. The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir

By: Neko Case

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood … read more

Similar categories in Neko Case's The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir book and Jerald Walker's Magically Black and Other Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I also have acute high-end hearing, so things bother me that other people can't hear. For example, I can hear electricity. Most people can't. I had no idea, I just thought everybody could."

-Neko Case, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir

"I had looked into the eyes of those wounds on my mother's hip bones for her; it was the worst thing I'd ever seen, and I would have done it a million times more because that's how much I loved her. I…"

-Neko Case, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir

"I had looked into the eyes of those wounds on my mother's hip bones for her; it was the worst thing I'd ever seen, and I would have done it a million times more because that's how much I loved her. I…"

-Neko Case, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir

"Looking back at my childhood, I slowly understood that even if no one talked about it, these secrets had been a distress signal that buzzed all through it, a frequency that's too low to hear, but you…"

-Neko Case, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir

16 best-selling audiobook books like Magically Black and Other Essays by Jerald Walker

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Womb City

Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Jonathan M. Metzl

4.10

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The World Record Book of Racist Stories

Amber Ruffin

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Thunder Song: Essays

Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

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4.50

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Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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