--- title: The End of White Politics: 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 description: Find out why The End of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell is on TIME's list of the must-read books from this year. canonical: https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904268/the-end-of-white-politics/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-11-09T20:03:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:44:11.360Z og:title: 'The End of White Politics' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 og:description: Here's why it made the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904268/the-end-of-white-politics/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt692a7b33bb4b5bda/698a13fee76ad2043b638489/best-books-2020-End-of-White-Politics.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 'The End of White Politics' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'The End of White Politics' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 twitter:description: Here's why it made the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt692a7b33bb4b5bda/698a13fee76ad2043b638489/best-books-2020-End-of-White-Politics.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 09, 2020 # The End of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  [Zerlina Maxwell](https://time.com/40110/rape-culture-is-real/ "undefined")’s frustration with progressive politics is rooted in first-hand experience—first as a field organizer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and then as a staffer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run—but also as a Black woman in the United States. Witty and piercing as she addresses everything from “Bernie Bros” to the enormous influence of billionaires, Maxwell maintains throughout her book that Democrats’ failures are rooted in their unending focus on whiteness, despite America’s growing diversity. She insists that the future of the party must not be in trying to persuade the tens of thousands of white voters who swung the Electoral College to Donald Trump, but in trying to regain the millions of voters—a third of whom were Black—who voted for Obama in 2012 but didn’t vote at all in 2016. **Buy Now:** _The End of White Politics_ on [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780306873614 "undefined") | [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306873613/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0306873613&linkId=0679bcb384c9ba19f6c971503ac57f1f "undefined") These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904268/the-end-of-white-politics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904268/the-end-of-white-politics/"},"headline":"'The End of White Politics' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020","datePublished":"2020-11-09T20:03:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:44:11.360Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904268/the-end-of-white-politics/","keywords":["E-Commerce","Books","list"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt692a7b33bb4b5bda/698a13fee76ad2043b638489/best-books-2020-End-of-White-Politics.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt692a7b33bb4b5bda/698a13fee76ad2043b638489/best-books-2020-End-of-White-Politics.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904268/the-end-of-white-politics/","name":"'The End of White Politics' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020"}}]}] ```