Reading Writers of Color 2021 - hosted by danfielding

May: About a radical social movement or historical event
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The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer

The Septembers of Shiraz

Dalia Sofer

340 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party by Matef Harmachis, Diane Fujino

Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party

Matef Harmachis, Diane Fujino

450 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction race informative reflective medium-paced
Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America by Daryl Joji Maeda

Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America

Daryl Joji Maeda

248 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History by Vicente L. Rafael

White Love and Other Events in Filipino History

Vicente L. Rafael

304 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier by Tania Murray Li

Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier

Tania Murray Li

240 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen D. Wu

The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

Ellen D. Wu

376 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Karma Of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad

The Karma Of Brown Folk

Vijay Prashad

272 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race informative reflective medium-paced
Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake by Diane C. Fujino

Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake

Diane C. Fujino

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional informative medium-paced
Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by John Kuo Wei Tchen, Dylan Yates

Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

John Kuo Wei Tchen, Dylan Yates

336 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

Kao Kalia Yang

277 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced