15 Sociology 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.

• Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation by Oluwakemi M. Balogun
• W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America edited by by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs &  Scott Kurashige
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
• Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims by Hussein Kesvani
• I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle
• Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
• Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos
• Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles by Rocío Rosales
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Venkatesh
• Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson