Poc

People Of Color. Primarily used in the United States to describe any person who is not considered "white", including African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islander Americans, multiracial Americans, and some Latino Americans ...more

The Hate U Give
Kindred
The Color Purple
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
The Vanishing Half
Homegoing
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
Between the World and Me
Beloved
The Poet X
Mexican Gothic
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Americanah
Such a Fun Age
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Broken Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinAnansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Fantasy of color
381 books — 157 voters
Polarity in Motion by Brenda VicarsNoughts & Crosses by Malorie BlackmanEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellEverything, Everything by Nicola YoonLiving Violet by Jaime Reed
Interracial young adult novels
351 books — 218 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Books by Black Authors
915 books — 368 voters

R.F. Kuang
I think it's very dangerous to start censoring what authors should and shouldn't write." I open strong, and this gets some approving murmurs from the crowd. But I still see some skeptical faces, especially from the other Asians present, so I continue. "I'd hate to live in a world where we tell people what they should and shouldn't write based on the color of their skin. I mean, turn what you're saying around and see how it sounds. Can a Black writer not write a novel with a white protagonist? Wh ...more
R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Julissa  Arce
We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black people, and the colonization of Mexicans?
Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

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Pride Over Prejudice A book club devoted to buddy reading and making new friends within the writing community. Join o…more
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Between the Hardb(l)ack Covers We are a group of POC who are trying to bring reading back! We try to read and highlight authors…more
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