Books like Teaching to transgress

Teaching to transgress by bell hooks reads as critical, empowering. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The mis-education of the Negro

Carter Godwin Woodson · 1933

Both explore education & race

73% genome match

Education For Critical Consciousness (Continuum Impacts)

Paulo Freire · 1967

Both explore education & liberation

74% genome match

Yearning

bell hooks · 1990

Both explore feminism & race

73% genome match

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde · 1984

Both explore feminism & race

83% genome match

The school and society

John Dewey · 1899

Both explore education

56% genome match

Schooling in Capitalist America

Samuel S. Bowles · 1976

Both explore education

56% genome match

Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo)

Angela Y. Davis · 1981

Both explore feminism & race

69% genome match

I Write What I Like

Steve Biko · 1958

Both explore liberation & social justice

69% genome match

The making of Black revolutionaries

James Forman · 1972

Both explore social justice

56% genome match

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell

George Orwell · 1968

Both explore social justice

69% genome match

Understanding Power

Noam Chomsky · 2002

Both explore social justice

66% genome match

Privilege, Power, and Difference

Allan G. Johnson · 2001

Both explore social justice

67% genome match