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Fascinating conversation-starter
So You Want To Talk About Race by IJEOMA OLUO
Personal-political guide around the complexities of racism in the USA, conversational, bristling with real talk, and potentially offering a tool kit for action and change.
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Essential myth-busting…
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by PETER FRYER
Published in 1984, penned by a Marxist historian, who points out in his opening sentence the fact, surprising
to many, that: “There were Africans in Britain before the English came here.”
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Must-read for woolly liberals
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by AFUA HIRSCH
Brilliant memoir/social history that will leave you in no doubt that the British middle classes are profoundly, often subtly racist, and deeply muddled about their post-colonial identity.
Eye-opening polemic
Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race RENI EDDO-LODGE
Life-changer for anyone still in denial, a rallying cry, a timely analysis of systemic unfairness in today’s Britain. Everyday racism, covert racism and structural racism are all laid bare in this brilliantly angry book.
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a black british pantheon
Black and British by DAVID OLUSOGA Enjoyable tales of Roman soldiers, Tudor maids, abolitionist Olaudah Equiano and Lance-Corporal Alhaji Grunshi (first soldier to fire a shot as the Great War commenced), pegged to Olusoga’s BBC TV series.
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Eloquent essays
Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line by ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
Thoughts on black identity in the USA, with a fine and detailed feel for the human perspective.
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Facts, facts, facts
White Rage: the Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide by CAROL ANDERSON (Bloomsbury)
First written as an op-ed in The Washington Post as race riots erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, a meticulous analysis of how white power has deliberately moved to undermine African American progress. Short, sharp and disturbing.
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