Race, racism and protest reading list

Ebooks

• Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice - Jonathan Kahn, 2018   
• Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge, 2018  
• Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi, 2018
• Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde,  1984 
• Ain’t I a Woman - Bell Hooks, 1981
• Becoming - Michelle Obama, 2018
• Back to Black: retelling Black radicalism for the 21st century - Kehinde Andrews, 2018
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander, 2010
• Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code - Ruha Benjamin, 2019
• Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain - 2018  
• Race and Nature: From Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance - Paul Outka, 2008
• Political Speech as a Weapon: Microaggression in a Changing Racial and Ethnic Environment - Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman, 2018  
• Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America - George Yancy, 2017
• Blackness in Britain - Lisa Amanda Palmer and Kehinde Andrews, 2016  
• Policing and the Legacy of Lawrence - edited by Nathan Hall,  John Grieve and Stephen P. Savage, 2009
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi, 2017
• The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B Du Bois, 1903
• Racism and Education. Coincidence or Conspiracy? - David Gillborn, 2008
• The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write - edited by Sabrina Mahfouz, 2017
• We Should All be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014 
• Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins - Christa Kuljian, 2016
• Don't Touch my Hair - Emma Dabiri, 2019
• Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India - Shashi Tharoor, 2018
• There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack - Paul Gilroy, 2002
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - Angela Y. Davis, 2016
• The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What It Means to Be Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic in Britain Today - Edited by Nikesh Shukla, 2016
• Becoming - Michelle Obama, 2018
• Diversify: How to Challenge Inequality and Why we Should - June Sarpong, 2019
• Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible - Yomi Adegoke  and Elizabeth Uviebinené, 2019 
• White Fragility: Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism - Robin Diangelo, 2019
• The Fire this Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race - edited by Jesmyn Ward
• Brit(ish): on Race, Identity and Belonging - Afua Hirsch, 2018 
• How Europe underdeveloped Africa - Rodney Walter, 1972
• Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama, 1995
• Judith Butler, Race and Education - Charlotte Chadderton, 2018
• How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir - Saeed Jones, 2019  
• Thick: and Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom, 2018
• They Can't Kill Us until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib, 2019  
• Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures -Lorna Goodison, 2018
• Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women that White Feminists Forgot - Mikki Kendall, 2020
• Afropean: Notes from Black Europe - Johnny Pitts, 2019
• Culture and Imperialism - Edward W. Said, 1993   
• Futures of Black Radicalism-  edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin, 2017 
• My Seditious Heart - Arundhati Roy, 2019  
• A Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches and Meditations - Toni Morrison, 2019  
• My Name is Why - Lemn Sissay, 2019 
• Reframing the Musical : Race, Culture and Identity - Sarah Whitfield, 2019 
• Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches - Sharrell D. Luckett with Tia M. Shaffer, 2016 

Print only

• Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire - Akala, 2019
• So You Want To Talk About Race - Ijeoma Olou, 2018 
• Well Read Black Girl: Finding our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - edited by Glory Edim, 2019 
• I know why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou, 1984 
• How to be an anti-racist - Ibram X. Kendi, 2019 
• Safe: on Black British Men Reclaiming Space - Derek Owusu, 2019 
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot, 2019 
• Between The World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015 
• How to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality - Adam Rutherford, 2020 
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself - Olaudah Equiano, 1789 (also free version on Google Books)
• A Billion Black Anthropocenes Or None - Kathryn Yusoff, 2018
• Critical Race Theory in England - Namita Chakrabarty, Lorna Roberts and John Preston, 2014 
• Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela, 1995
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: With the Assistance of Alex Haley - Malcolm X and Alex Haley, 1965
• Taking up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change - Chelsea Kwakye and Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi

Ebooks

• Noughts and crosses - Malorie Blackman, 2006
• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014
• Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2006
• The Perseverance - Raymond Antrobus, 2018
• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe, 1958
• Beloved - Toni Morrison, 1997
• An American Marriage - Tayari Jones, 2018
• Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
• Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison, 1952
• Wade in the Water - Tracy K Smith, 2018
• Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi, 2017
• The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas, 2017
• Kumukanda - Kayo Chingonyi, 2017
• Don’t Call us Dead - Danez Smith, 2018
• Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid, 2020
• Washington Black - Esi Edugyan, 2018
• Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo, 2019
• Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie, 2017
• Surge - Jay Bernard, 2019
• The Sellout - Paul Beatty, 2016
• The Book of Night Women - Marlon James, 2009
• I Am Not Sidney Poitier - Percival Everett, 2020
• Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin, 1954 
• Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, 2018
• Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward, 2017 
• There There - Tommy Orange, 2018 
• The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward, 2018 

Print only

• Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 
• Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams, 2019  
• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead, 2017
• That Reminds Me - Derek Owusu, 2019 
• White Teeth - Zadie Smith, 2001 
• The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney - Okechukwu Nzelu, 2019 

Ebooks

• No One is Too Small to Make a Difference - Greta Thurnberg, 2019 
• Race and riots in Thatcher's Britain - Simon Peplow, 2019 
• Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest - Zeynep Tufekci, 2017 
• Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War - Bruce Dancis, 2014 
• Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest - Avram Finkelstein, 2018  
• Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age - Manuel Castells, 2015 
• This is Not a Drill: the Extinction Rebellion Handbook - edited by Clare Farrell, 2019  
• How to resist: turn protest to power - Matthew Bolton, 2017  
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir -  Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele, 2018 

Print only 

• Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist - Sunil Yapa, 2016  
• Artivism - Daniela Poch and Arcadi Poch, 2018 

Journals

• The Journal Race, Ethnicity and Education
• SAGE Resources on Structural Racism and Police Violence 
• Springer Resources on Black Lives Matter

Journal articles

• Arday, J. (2018). Dismantling power and privilege through reflexivity: Negotiating normative Whiteness, the Eurocentric curriculum and racial micro-aggressions within the Academy. Whiteness and Education 3(2): 141-161.
• Arday, J. (2018). Understanding mental health: What are the issues for black and ethnic minority students at University?. Social Sciences 7(10): 196.
• Arday, J. (2018). Understanding race and educational leadership in higher education: Exploring the Black and ethnic minority (BME) experience. Management in Education 32(4): 192-200.
• Bonilla-Silva, E. (2012) The invisible weight of whiteness: the racial grammar of everyday life in contemporary America. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(2): 173-194.
• Chadderton, C. (2012) Problematising the role of the white researcher in social justice research.  Ethnography and Education 7:3, pp. 363-380.
• Chadderton, C. & Wischmann, A. (2014) Racialised norms in apprenticeship systems in England and Germany, Journal of Vocational Education & Training 66:3, pp.330-347.
• Chadderton, C. and Edmonds, C. (2015) Refugees and access to vocational education and training across Europe: a case of protection of white privilege? Journal of Vocational Education and Training 67:2, pp. 136-152.
• Garner, S. (2006) The uses of whiteness: what sociologists working on Europe can draw from US research on whiteness, Sociology, 40: 257-75.
• Jones, J. M., & Dovidio, J. F. (2018). Change, challenge, and prospects for a diversity paradigm in social psychology. Social Issues and Policy Review, 12(1), 7-56. 
• Kraus, M. W., & Torrez, B. (2020). A psychology of power that is embedded in societal structures. Current opinion in psychology, 33, 86-90. 
• Phillips, L. T., & Lowery, B. S. (2018). Herd invisibility: The psychology of racial privilege. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(3), 156-162. 
• Richeson, J. A., & Sommers, S. R. (2016). Toward a social psychology of race and race relations for the twenty-first century. Annual review of psychology, 67, 439-463.
• Salter, P. S., Adams, G., & Perez, M. J. (2018). Racism in the structure of everyday worlds: A cultural-psychological perspective. Current directions in psychological science, 27(3), 150-155.
• Singh, G. (2018) Post-racial pedagogy – challenges and possibilities, Race Ethnicity and Education, 21:4, 555-563 
• Trawalter, S., Bart-Plange, D. J., & Hoffman, K. M. (2020). A socioecological psychology of racism: making structures and history more visible. Current opinion in psychology, 32, 47-51.
• Wallace, S., Nazroo, J., & Bécares, L. (2016). Cumulative effect of racial discrimination on the mental health of ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom. American Journal of Public Health, 106(7), 1294-1300.
• Williams, M. T. (2019). Adverse racial climates in academia: Conceptualization, interventions, and call to action. New ideas in Psychology, 55, 58-67. 

Box of Broadcast playlists and episodes

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• Race in the UK 
• Race and Resistance 
• Black Lives Matter 
• Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True  

Databases

• Two open-access databases exploring slavery: Runaways and Slave Voyages
• Drama Online Aurora Metro Books Collection 
• Black Cultural Archives
• The African and Asian Visual Arts Archive