15 Law and Legal Non-Fiction 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.

• Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
• Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
• Looking White People in the Eye by Sherene H. Razack
• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
• Refugee Law After 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the US by Obiora Chinedu Okafor
• Aboriginal™: the Cultural and Economic Politics of Recognition by Jennifer Adese
• Peace and Good Order: the Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada by Harold R. Johnson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
• Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler
• A Matter Of Law: A Memoir Of Struggle In The Cause Of Equal Rights by Robert L. Carter
• America’s Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
• Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture by Randall Kennedy
• Crisis and Command: the History of Executive Power From George Washington to George W. Bush by John Yoo