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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 12 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics by Michael G. Long (Editor)
    Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics - by Michael G. Long (Editor)

    £23.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781479818495 | ISBN 10: 1479818496

    Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.  While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of a ... more

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  • 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 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 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 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 Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick
    Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock - by David Margolick

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780300187922 | ISBN 10: 0300187920

    The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white gir ... 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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