Topic: Essays by Writers of Color

Thanks to Cyn Kitchen for this list:  essay (not memoir) recommendations by writers of color, who are American, but who are not writing about race.

Please add your suggestions in the comments!

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• Richard Rodriguez, Darling, excerpted in Harper’s.
• Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”
• Louise Erdrich
• Roxanne Gay, Bad Feminist
• bell hooks
• Alison Hawthorne Deming, Colors of Nature
• Stacyanne Chin, The Other Side of Paradise
• Ta Nehisi Coates, Beautiful Struggle