Political Commentary Books by BIPOC Authors
- Biographies, Demographic Studies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, Political Commentary, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2025
Generated from the life histories of ten Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) elders (kūpuna) who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or māhū (LGBTQM), this book reveals the way they experienced...
- Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2025
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values. On October 25, 2023,...
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2024
What does self-care look like when struggling to make ends meet, living with a disability, or navigating intersectional marginalization? How can you prioritize well-being while divesting from systems built to...
- Memoir, Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2024
From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. On the...
- by Maria Ressa
- Activism and Social Justice, Nonfiction, Political Commentary, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2023
From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes a powerful memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and...
- Activism and Social Justice, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2022
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to...
- Discrimination and Racism, Ethnic Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2021
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...
- by Adam Serwer
- History, Nonfiction, Political Commentary, US History
- Publication Year: 2021
To many, our most shocking political crises appear unprecedented—un-American, even. But they are not, writes The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer in this prescient essay collection, which dissects the most devastating moments...
- Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2020
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country...
- by Kiese Laymon
- Essays, Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2020
A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that...
- by Kiese Laymon
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2018
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a...
- Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2018
The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they...
- History, Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2017
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand...
- 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...
107 Days
For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American...