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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781839972836 | ISBN 10: 1839972831
Despite the UK's long history of racial injustice, people from minoritised groups have fought back, engaging in advocacy, activism, and every-day acts of resistance to create positive change. This anthology is a prize-winning collection of these s ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398504844 | ISBN 10: 139850484x
A searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the United States. “No one told me about America.†... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781788169202 | ISBN 10: 1788169204
A vital, eye-opening exploration of race and health. A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023 'Prepare to be blown away' CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, Assistant Director General at WHO& ... more
View book details£23.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781629639727 | ISBN 10: 1629639729
What does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today’s anti-fascist organizing in Nort ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781471184208 | ISBN 10: 147118420x
This is a story of belonging and not belonging, of not knowing if you exist and making sure that you do. This story is for ancestors and descendants, for the people without roles or representation who find themselves placed in a random mixed-up race. ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141995465 | ISBN 10: 0141995467
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking A ... more
View book details£10.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914143571 | ISBN 10: 1914143574
On 14 October 1997 Ricky Reel went missing following a racist attack in Kingston upon Thames. His three friends, who had also been racially abused, were able to regroup but Ricky never did. Seven days later Ricky’s body was found at the bottom of t ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781785788604 | ISBN 10: 1785788604
** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 ** 'Fast-paced but nuanced... impeccably researched... a much-needed book' The Guardian ''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you a ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787635838 | ISBN 10: 178763583x
'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist 'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES You know how he died. This is how ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472983930 | ISBN 10: 1472983939
One of Waterstones Best Books to Look Forward to in 2021 The Bookseller's Book of the Month A Guardian 2021 Literary Highlight "I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had to report what had happened, not only for m ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241437445 | ISBN 10: 024143744x
The New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European Empires, outlining the deliberate terror and suffering wrought during every stage of the expansion, and destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141996479 | ISBN 10: 0141996471
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of dis ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529405101 | ISBN 10: 1529405106
Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. Â When Layla Saad began ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529380811 | ISBN 10: 1529380812
Clapback: [Noun / Verb] Responding to a (often ignorant) notion with a withering comeback; with the aim of shutting. it. down. In order to have an honest and open conversation about race, we need to identify areas where things are not righ ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784705039 | ISBN 10: 1784705039
Where are you really from?  You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in Britain. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.  So why do people keep asking you where you are from?  Brit(ish) is abou ... more
View book details£14.95 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780674660038 | ISBN 10: 067466003x
Biological races do not exist — and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful ... more
View book details£9.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849549424 | ISBN 10: 1849549427
Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the ‘other’, still damage lives. But does race matter as much as it used to? Many argue that the post-racial society i ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780192805904 | ISBN 10: 0192805908
From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what a ... more
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