Books like I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
12 books with a reading profile close to I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · history, memoir
Deborah Feldman details her youth within the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a world defined by strict gender roles and the trauma of the Holocaust.
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · history, memoir
In 1975, five-year-old Loung Ung lived a comfortable life in Phnom Penh as the daughter of a high-ranking government official.
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Infidel
history, memoir
Infidel follows Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s life from her childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya to her career as a Dutch parliamentarian.
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
Also inward-looking · history, memoir
In 1942, Edith Hahn, a Jewish law student from Vienna, escaped deportation by assuming the identity of a Christian woman named Grete Denner.
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Assata: An Autobiography
history, memoir
Assata Shakur recounts her life as a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, structured around her 1973 arrest on the New Jersey Turnpike and subsequent imprisonment.
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
Also inward-looking · history, memoir
Władysław Szpilman, a Jewish pianist for Polish Radio, provides a first-hand account of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
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Shadows of the Workhouse
Also clear-cut · history, memoir
In this second volume of her memoirs, Jennifer Worth documents the lives of people in London’s East End who were shaped by the British Victorian workhouse system.
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Life of Black Hawk, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
by Black Hawk
history, memoir
In this 1833 autobiography, Sauk leader Black Hawk recounts his military life and the territorial disputes leading to the Black Hawk War.
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Black Like Me
Also clear-cut · history, memoir
In 1959, white journalist John Howard Griffin underwent medical treatments, including skin-darkening medication and ultraviolet light exposure, to pass as a Black man in the segregated American South.
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Homage to Catalonia
history, memoir
George Orwell recounts his personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War, specifically his time serving within the POUM militia on the Aragon front and in Barcelona.
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
history, memoir
In this memoir, Trevor Noah recounts his upbringing in South Africa under apartheid and the subsequent transition to democracy.
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