Design Books and Resources by Women and People of Color

Non-Designer's Design Book, Robin Williams Good Overview of simple graphic design basics.

Graphic Design Thinking (by Ellen Lupton)

Wired to Care, Dev Patnaik, About the role of empathy in design thinking.

Quiet, Susan Cain – Not specifically design related, but captures the role of introversion and different thinking models.

Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy by Cindy Alvarez

Design Anthropology, Object Culture in the 21st Century (Edited by Alison Clarke, several essays by women) http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-7091-0234-3

Beautiful Users: Designing for People (Ellen Lupton, mostly visuals, but nice compilation)

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Users-Designing-Ellen-Lupton/dp/1616892919/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448044848&sr=1-1&keywords=beautiful+users

Thinking in Systems (Donella Meadows) http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadow

UX for Lean Startups by Laura Klein

Liz Sanders & Peter Jan Stappers:  Convivial Toolbox: Generative Research for the Front End of Design gives a broad introduction to a way to think about the options you have in conducting research in design.  It's a great tool to aid bridging disciplines, not just in design, but across business and organizational design as well.  

UX Team of One, Leah Buley

Jane Fulton Suri's Thoughtless Acts - http://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/thoughtless-acts.html

Design Meets Disability by Graham Pullin, published by MIT Press

Focuses more on conceptual design than on design thinking, and the author is neither a woman nor a POC, but it features case studies for designing intelligently, beautifully, and even wittily for disability.

Paola Antonelli’s books

https://www.amazon.com/Paola-Antonelli/e/B001JOD1M0

The book is Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

The podcast is 99% Invisible

I haven’t read this book, but I listened to an excellent podcast which discussed it.  It discusses the fact that many things are designed by men, which results in them being designed for men.  The podcast uses examples of snow plow routes, crash test dummies, and stoves in India.

Other Resources

(Authors may not be listed, but they are women, including women of color)

IDEO Method Deck (and app) - https://www.ideo.com/work/ideo-method-card-app/

IDEO.org's Field Guide to Human-Centered Design - http://www.ideo.org/tools - http://www.designkit.org 

Black In Design – A design conference held by Harvard’s Design School. Architecture Focused.

Organization of Black Designers – A great resource if you are looking to African American designers.

http://www.core77.com/version1.0/resource/OBD/welcome.html