Not precisely a book by a PoC, since it is a book of essays, and some of them (by no means the majority) are by apparently-white people. Nonetheless, very relevant to this community.

I picked up Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation, edited by Adel Iskandar and Hakem Rustom, in a free box in my neighborhood. This is way outside ( Read more... )

47 Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez A. Sayegh

A 1965 pamphlet by one of the founders of the PLO. I do not intend to get into a flamewar over the book on this forum. However, if you're curious what I thought and would like to get into a good faith discussion, I might be willing to take it to email.

40. Reza Aslan, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on TerrorA non-fiction pop book dealing with a wide range of subjects, from the history of the state of Israel, to the difference between Islamist groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and Jihadist groups like al-Qa'ida (as well as the inaccuracy of referring ( Read more... )

17. Getting It by Alex Sanchez ( Read more... )

 #6.  Red Suitcase, Naomi Shihab Nye
1994, American Poets Continuum

Oh, this is... odd.  I really thought I had posted a longish review of this book last month, but it seems to have been devoured by the monsters that devour things in the ether.  Which is too bad.

It will be replaced, then, by a short-ish review now.  Naomi Shihab Nye is an American ( Read more... )

1. Joe Sacco, Palestine: The Special Edition.

In 1991, aghast at what his U.S. tax dollars were financing and how poorly the U.S. media was covering it, journalist and comic artist Joe Sacco went to the Occupied Palestinian Territories to research material for a comic book (Sacco eschews the term "graphic novel") about the Israeli occupation. ( Read more... )