Reading Lists

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Reading Lists

Featured Books

How to argue with a racist
By Adam Rutherford
Brit(ish): on race, identity and belonging
By Afua Hirsch
Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire
By Akala
Superior: the return of race science
By Angela Saini
The hate u give
By Angie Thomas
Girl, woman, other
By Bernardine Evaristo
Blackness in Britain
Edited by
Lisa Palmer & Kehinde Andrews
Love in colour: mythical tales from around the world, retold
By Bolu Babalola
I am not your baby mother
By Candice Brathwaite
Queenie
By Candice Carty-Williams
Taking up space: the black girl’s manifesto for change
By Chelsea Kwakye & Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi
Black and British: a forgotten history
By David Olusoga
Ordinary People
By Diana Evans
Don’t touch my hair
By Emma Dabiri
“I will not be erased”: our stories about growing up as people of colour
By Jess Nash & gal-dem
How to be an antiracist
By Ibram X Kendi
Black, listed
By Jeffrey Boakye
White privilege: the myth of a post-racial society
By Kalwant Bhopal & Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Resisting racism: race, inequality and the Black supplementary school movement
By Kehinde Andrews
Back to black: retelling black radicalism for the 21st century
By Kehinde Andrews
Towards decolonising the university: a kaleidoscope for empowered action
By Decolonise University of Kent Collective; Professor Toni Williams & Heidi Safia Mirza
Me and White Supremacy
By Layla Saad
Bad love
By Maame Blue
Noughts & crosses: [Book 1]
By Malorie Blackman
Noughts + crosses
By Malorie Blackman
It’s not about the burqa: Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race
Edited by Mariam Khan
The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
By Michelle Alexander
Black Tudors: the untold story
By Miranda Kaufmann
The Good Immigrant
By Nikesh Shukla
The private joys of Nnenna Maloney
By Okechukwu Nzelu
100 great black britons
By Patrick Vernon & Angelina Osborne
Rainbow milk
By Paul Mendez
Memoirs Of A Black Englishman
By Paul Stephenson & Lilleith Morrison
Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
By Reni Eddo-Lodge
White fragility: why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism
By Robin J. DiAngelo
The spirit level: why equality is better for everyone
By Richard G. Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
The spirit level: why greater equality makes societies stronger
By Richard G. Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
Mother country: Britain’s black community on the home front, 1939-45
By Stephen Bourne
Between the world and me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Shame On Me
By Tessa McWatt
Who’s afraid of post-blackness?: what it means to be Black now
By Touré
Slay in your lane: the black girl bible
By Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinené
Decolonising the University
Edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial & Kerem Nisancıolu
This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books By Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne & Kadija Sesay George

Reading Lists

A book list to support #BlackLivesMatter #BLM

By LSBU
2020/2021 & 2021/2022

2020/2021 list
2021/2022 list

Decolonising the curriculum toolkit – Reading Lists for:

  • The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • The College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries
  • Westminster Business School

By University of Westminster
2020/2021

See rEADING listS

Equality, Culture and Citizenship

By LSBU
2021/2022

2021/2022 list