15 Anthropology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) 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.

• The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures by Christian Allaire
• Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
• Dakota Texts by Ella Cara Deloria
• Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
• Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran by Niloofar Haeri
• Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
• Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts by Margaret Kovach
• Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana by Kwame Edwin Otu
• Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities by Paul Seesequasis
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis edited by Jesook Song and Laam Hae
• Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear
• Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley Thangaraj
• From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i by Haunani-Kay Trask
• Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson