Books like The mis-education of the Negro

The mis-education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson reads as critical, urgent. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Teaching to transgress

bell hooks · 1994

Both explore education & race

73% genome match

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington · 2002

Both explore race & education

60% genome match

How the Irish became White

Noel Ignatiev · 1995

Both explore race

62% genome match

Before the Mayflower

Lerone Bennett · 1960

Both explore cultural identity

62% genome match

Rope & faggot

Walter Francis White · 1929

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

The racial contract

Charles W. Mills · 1997

Both explore race

59% genome match

Education For Critical Consciousness (Continuum Impacts)

Paulo Freire · 1967

Both explore education

60% genome match

From slavery to freedom

John Hope Franklin · 1947

Same nonfiction feel

54% 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

Privilege, Power, and Difference

Allan G. Johnson · 2001

Both explore systemic oppression

70% genome match

Southern horrors and other writings

Ida B. Wells-Barnett · 1996

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match