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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
£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) Â This uniquely interdisciplinary ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571342617 | ISBN 10: 0571342612
***BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*** Â 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
View book details£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
View book details£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 Â What does it mean to be a person of colour in a world dominated by white privilege? Â Exploring everything from eradicated black histo ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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. Â Cont ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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