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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
£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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