12 Non-Fiction Transportation and Transit books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay
• Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall
• Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka
• Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance by Adonia E. Lugo
• Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker by Joe Martin with Alan Hoover
• Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City by Biju Mathew
• Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car by Woodrow Phoenix
• Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
• Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It by Ganesh Sitaraman
• Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin
• Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor 
• The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe