Discrimination and Racism Books by BIPOC Authors
- Discrimination and Racism, History, Nonfiction, US History
- Publication Year: 2025
In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa’s Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. The Zorg (a...
- by Akilah Cadet
- Cultural Anthropology, Discrimination and Racism, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, People with Disabilities
- Publication Year: 2024
This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me to...
- by Tiffany Yu
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Discrimination and Racism, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, People with Disabilities
- Publication Year: 2024
Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack biases and build an inclusive and accessible world. As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD,...
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Discrimination and Racism, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina,...
- by Imani Perry
- Discrimination and Racism, History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America. We...
- Discrimination and Racism, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
For generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez...
- Demographic Studies, Discrimination and Racism, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty people stolen from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric...
- by Valarie Kaur
- Discrimination and Racism, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2020
An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a...
- by Ijeoma Oluo
- Activism and Social Justice, Discrimination and Racism, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2020
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of...
- by Ijeoma Oluo
- Discrimination and Racism, Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction, Race and Ethnic Relations
- Publication Year: 2018
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America. Protests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world....
- Demographic Studies, Discrimination and Racism, Native American History, Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2017
Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands...
- Discrimination and Racism, Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction, True Crime
- Publication Year: 2014
Imagine that a terrorist tried to kill you. If you could face him again, on your terms, what would you do? The True American by Anand Giridharadas tells the story...
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food...