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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation by Daniel McNeil
    Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation - by Daniel McNeil

    £16.95   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781771136075 | ISBN 10: 1771136073

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Adult Non-fiction, Popular Culture, 2022 (Short-listed) The Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Adult Non-fiction, African American History/Culture, 2023 (Short-listed)   This uniquely interdisciplinary ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival by Nicola Rollock
    The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival - by Nicola Rollock

    £20.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241521052 | ISBN 10: 024152105x

    'A powerful, salient and gracefully written study of the corrosive dynamics of race in Britain from a trusted voice on the subject. We can all benefit from reading it' Diana Evans  In this transformative book, Nicola Rollock, one of our pre-e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder (Editors)
    Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality - by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571368518 | ISBN 10: 0571368514

    This is more than a book – it’s an incitement to change people’s perceptions.  Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.  In response to the international outcry at George Flo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race by Remi Adekoya
    Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race - by Remi Adekoya

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472133441 | ISBN 10: 1472133447

    Mixed-race is the fastest-growing minority group in Britain. By the end of the century roughly one in three of the population will be mixed-race, with this figure rising to 75 per cent by 2150. Mixed-race is, quite literally, the future.  Paradox ... more

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  • Cover image of book Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry
    Who Am I, Again? - by Lenny Henry

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571342617 | ISBN 10: 0571342612

    ***BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week***   Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.  You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman
    The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment - by Amelia Gentleman

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783351855 | ISBN 10: 1783351853

    ***LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019***  How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for fifty years?  Amelia Gentleman's expose of the Windrush scandal shocked th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why I
    Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - by Reni Eddo-Lodge

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408870587 | ISBN 10: 1408870584

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD   What does it mean to be a person of colour in a world dominated by white privilege?   Exploring everything from eradicated black histo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills
    Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain - by Clair Wills

    £25.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846147166 | ISBN 10: 1846147166

    The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers - to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (Editor)
    The Good Immigrant - by Nikesh Shukla (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783523955 | ISBN 10: 1783523956

    How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?   Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does it feel to have words from your nativ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology by Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon (Editors)
    Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology - by Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon (Editors)

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780956971968 | ISBN 10: 0956971962

    A ground-breaking, provocative and diverse anthology of writing about black gay men's lives in the UK - essays, activist memoirs, (auto)biographies, poems and fiction, edited by multi-award-winning writers Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon.  Cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black and Asian Theatre In Britain: A History by Colin Chambers
    Black and Asian Theatre In Britain: A History - by Colin Chambers

    £34.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780415375986 | ISBN 10: 0415375983

    Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed backgro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Murder in Notting Hill by Mark Olden
    Murder in Notting Hill - by Mark Olden

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846945366 | ISBN 10: 1846945364

    A search for the truth about a distant unsolved murder.   At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a Notting Hill slum street. One of them plunged a knife into his heart. When the po ... more

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  • Cover image of book Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The 2001 Bradford Riot and Beyond by Jenny Pearce and Janet Bujra
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The 2001 Bradford Riot and Beyond - by Jenny Pearce and Janet Bujra

    £13.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781904091493 | ISBN 10: 1904091490

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning marks the tenth anniversary of the Bradford riot of Saturday 7 to Sunday 8 July 2001. The day began with a peaceful demonstration against a banned Far Right march but ended in one of the most violent examples of unre ... more

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  • Cover image of book A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy by France Winddance Twine
    A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy - by France Winddance Twine

    £20.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780822348764 | ISBN 10: 0822348764

    A White Side of Black Britain explores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mother Country: Britain by Stephen Bourne
    Mother Country: Britain - by Stephen Bourne

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752456102 | ISBN 10: 0752456105

    Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Londoners: A History by Susan Okokon
    Black Londoners: A History - by Susan Okokon

    £14.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752453750 | ISBN 10: 0752453750

    A tribute to the Black community of London.  This fascinating illustrated history traces the relationship of London to her Black citizens over the past centuries. Susan Okokon provides a detailed testimony and visual record of this importa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Deaths in Police Custody and Human Rights: The Failure of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry by David Mayberry
    Black Deaths in Police Custody and Human Rights: The Failure of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - by David Mayberry

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906190095 | ISBN 10: 1906190097

    This unique book provides an insight into one of the most disturbing and under-reported issues to affect ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.   Through an assessment of diversity literature and interviews with police officers, it highlight ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Britain: A Photographic History by Paul Gilroy
    Black Britain: A Photographic History - by Paul Gilroy

    £19.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780863565403 | ISBN 10: 0863565409

    People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries. Eminent professor Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social and cultural dimensions of British blackness and black Britishness, has assembled a living v ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Empire by Paul Gilroy
    After Empire - by Paul Gilroy

    £23.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780415343084 | ISBN 10: 0415343089

    What is the future for mulitculturalism? Can we move beyond the melancholic celebration of past glories embodied in the cry "two world wars and one World Cup" to imagine a modern, mulitcultural British identity? In this important new book, Paul Gilro ... more

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