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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 23 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge
    Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter - by Gary Younge

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571376827 | ISBN 10: 0571376827

    BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023  A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices.  ‘An outstanding journalist and chronicler.’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
    Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life - by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839765643 | ISBN 10: 183976564x

    A new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racism.  Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft “ought to be positioned,” as Bookforum put it, “at the center of any discussion of race ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children by Patrick Hutchinson
    Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children - by Patrick Hutchinson

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008444020 | ISBN 10: 0008444021

    'I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and future generations.'   On 13 June 2020, Patrick Hutchinson, a black man, was ph ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
    The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History - by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

    £16.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781984857705 | ISBN 10: 1984857703

    A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party.  Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to t ... more

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  • Cover image of book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
    So You Want to Talk About Race - by Ijeoma Oluo

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781541647435 | ISBN 10: 1541647432

    In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-ag ... more

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  • Cover image of book On the Other Side of Freedom: Race and Justice in a Divided America by DeRay Mckesson
    On the Other Side of Freedom: Race and Justice in a Divided America - by DeRay Mckesson

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786076519 | ISBN 10: 1786076519

    Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist, helping to bring the Black Lives Matter movement into being.   Now, in his first book, he ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
    The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race - by Jesmyn Ward

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408892589 | ISBN 10: 1408892588

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   A timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America edited by Jesmyn Ward, the first woman to win the National Book Award twice.   In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow
    No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson - by Jeff Sparrow

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206

    Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.   Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Policing The Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis, Bryan A. Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western and Jeremy Travis
    Policing The Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment - by Angela J. Davis, Bryan A. Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western and Jeremy Travis

    £11.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780525436614 | ISBN 10: 0525436618

    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal schol ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Liberation And The American Dream: The Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice by Paul Le Blanc (Editor)
    Black Liberation And The American Dream: The Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice - by Paul Le Blanc (Editor)

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781608467853 | ISBN 10: 1608467856

    Analysing intersections of race, class, and gender alongside primary texts, this unique volume explores racism and antiracism in the US.   Considering the connections between class and racial oppression, and the often marginalized role of th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
    The Origin of Others - by Toni Morrison

    £18.95   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780674976450 | ISBN 10: 0674976452

    America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What ... more

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  • Cover image of book I am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin and Raoul Peck
    I am Not Your Negro - by James Baldwin and Raoul Peck

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141986678 | ISBN 10: 0141986670

    The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film.   In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
    Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin - by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781909762572 | ISBN 10: 1909762571

    On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighbourhood watchman ended his young life. In a matter of weeks, Trayvon Martin’s name w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Muhammad Ali by Sybille Titeux and Amazing Ameziane
    Muhammad Ali - by Sybille Titeux and Amazing Ameziane

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781506703183 | ISBN 10: 1506703186

    The story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali!   An original graphic novel celebrating the life of the glorious athlete who metamorphosed from Cassius Clay to become a three-time heavyweight boxing legend, activist, and provocateur: Muhammad Ali. Not ... more

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  • Cover image of book From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation - by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465620 | ISBN 10: 1608465624

    The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir - by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784785345 | ISBN 10: 1784785342

    The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading.”   This small a ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (Editors)
    This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (Editors)

    £21.50   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781438454382 | ISBN 10: 1438454384

    Bronze Medalist 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Anthologies CategoryFINALIST 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies Category  Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism ... more

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  • Cover image of book It
    It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television - by Gayle Wald

    £23.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358374 | ISBN 10: 0822358379

    Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic foru ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
    Black Like Me - by John Howard Griffin

    £12.00   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780285638570 | ISBN 10: 0285638572

    The history-making classic about crossing the color line in the segregated South.  In the Deep South of the 1950s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - by Barack Obama

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847670946 | ISBN 10: 1847670946

    In this memoir written at the age of 33, Barack Obama, son of a black African father and a white American mother, describes the search for meaning in his life as a black American.  He begins in New York where he learns that his father, more a myth th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not in My Family: AIDS in the African-American Community by Edited by Gil L.Robertson
    Not in My Family: AIDS in the African-American Community - by Edited by Gil L.Robertson

    £10.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781932841244 | ISBN 10: 1932841245

    In this landmark collection of personal essays, stories, brief memoirs and polemics, prominent figures from all walks of African-American life unite to break through cultural inhibitions and address head-on how the HIV/AIDS scourge has affected their ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States by Gary Younge
    Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States - by Gary Younge

    £13.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781595580689 | ISBN 10: 1595580689

    Black, opinionated, and from a working-class background, Gary Younge is not your typical foreign correspondent. Yet, in three years working for The Guardian newspaper in New York, Younge has aquired a transatlantic reputation as one of the most thoug ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Won
    We Won't Budge - by Manthia Diawara

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780954702342 | ISBN 10: 0954702344

    In this searing memoir, Diawara revisits his early years as an emigrant in love with Swedish girls and American rock and roll. Taking us from the nightclubs of his home town Bamako, to the cafes of Boulevard Montparnasse, to the black neighbourhoods ... more

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