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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 34 books in this booklist

  • 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 Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger
    The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class - by David R. Roediger

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839768309 | ISBN 10: 1839768304

    Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United Stat ... more

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  • Cover image of book His Name Is George Floyd: One Man
    His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice - by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787635838 | ISBN 10: 178763583x

    'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist  'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES  You know how he died. This is how ... more

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  • Cover image of book How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That
    How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged - by Kimberly Jones

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911231394 | ISBN 10: 1911231391

    ‘So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn’t like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
    The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X - by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241503041 | ISBN 10: 0241503043

    **WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY** **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award Finalist, LA Times Book Prize  A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
    Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race - by Beverly Daniel Tatum

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141997445 | ISBN 10: 0141997443

    The international bestseller that changed how we talk about racism.   Walk into any racially mixed secondary school and you will see young people clustered in their own groups according to race. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or ... 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 Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
    Just Mercy - by Bryan Stevenson

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912854790 | ISBN 10: 1912854791

    "From the frontlines of social justice comes one of the most urgent voices of our era. Bryan Stevenson is a real-life, modern-day Atticus Finch who, through his work in redeeming innocent people condemned to death, has sought to redeem the country it ... 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 We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    We Were Eight Years in Power - by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241982495 | ISBN 10: 0241982499

    An essential account of modern America, from Obama to Trump, from black lives matter to white supremacists rising - by the bestselling author of Between the World and Me.  Obama's presidency was a watershed moment in American history. From 2008-2 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
    Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - by Beverly Daniel Tatum

    £18.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780465060689 | ISBN 10: 0465060684

    Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy?   Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the ps ... 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 Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns
    Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives - by Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns

    £22.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780316552967 | ISBN 10: 0316552968

    Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times – until now. Unseen uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.&n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
    Notes of a Native Son - by James Baldwin

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241334003 | ISBN 10: 0241334004

    'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'   James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher fath ... more

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  • Cover image of book (H)afrocentric Comics: Volumes 1-4 by Juliana “Jewels” Smith, illustrated by Ronald Nelson
    (H)afrocentric Comics: Volumes 1-4 - by Juliana “Jewels” Smith, illustrated by Ronald Nelson

    £17.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781629634487 | ISBN 10: 1629634484

    Glyph Award winner Juliana “Jewels” Smith and illustrator Ronald Nelson have created an unflinching visual and literary tour-de-force on the most pressing issues of the day — including gentrification, police violence, and the housing crisis — ... 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 Farewell Speeches by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
    Farewell Speeches - by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781612196886 | ISBN 10: 1612196888

    “Show up. Dive in. Persevere. Sometimes you’ll win. Sometimes you’ll lose.”   The final speeches of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama. Both speeches were instant and moving lan ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
    Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin - by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781909762572 | ISBN 10: 1909762571

    On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighbourhood watchman ended his young life. In a matter of weeks, Trayvon Martin’s name w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: A Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Jane Lazarre
    Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: A Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons - by Jane Lazarre

    £18.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780822361664 | ISBN 10: 0822361663

    "I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me."  In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
    In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - by Christina Sharpe

    £19.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780822362944 | ISBN 10: 0822362945

    In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake."   Activating multiple registers of "wake" ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown by Lezley McSpadden
    Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown - by Lezley McSpadden

    £20.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781942872528 | ISBN 10: 1942872526

    The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpadden — the mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014 — sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent histor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
    Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - by Bryan Stevenson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781925228311 | ISBN 10: 1925228312

    Named a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Esquire, and Time.  The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every 15 people born there today is expected to go to prison. For black men t ... 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 Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
    Men We Reaped: A Memoir - by Jesmyn Ward

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781608197651 | ISBN 10: 1608197654

    "...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped."(Harriet Tubman) In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicid ... more

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  • Cover image of book Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood Among Black Women by Mignon Moore
    Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood Among Black Women - by Mignon Moore

    £22.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780520269521 | ISBN 10: 0520269527

    Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible gay women of color in a book that challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood. Drawing from interviews and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther by Eddie Conway
    Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther - by Eddie Conway

    £11.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849350228 | ISBN 10: 1849350221

    In 1970, the feds framed Eddie Conway for the murder of a Baltimore City Police officer. He was 24 years old. They threw him in prison, took him away from his family, his friends, and his organizing, and tried to relegate him to a life marked by noth ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
    Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America - by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847084576 | ISBN 10: 1847084575

    A walker, a reader and a gazer, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is also a skilled talker whose impromptu kerbside exchanges with Harlem's most colourful residents are transmuted into a slippery, silky set of observations on what change and opportunity have wrou ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Kill a Mockingbird (50th Anniversary edition) by Harper Lee
    To Kill a Mockingbird (50th Anniversary edition) - by Harper Lee

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099549482 | ISBN 10: 0099549484

    'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' This book presents a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - by Barack Obama

    £18.98   audiobook on CD   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847673282 | ISBN 10: 1847673287

    The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotion ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
    The Audacity of Hope - by Barack Obama

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847670830 | ISBN 10: 1847670830

    If Barack Obama is successful in his quest to become President of the United States, he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world.  In this bestselling book Obama discusses the importance of empathy in politics, hi ... 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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  • Cover image of book Understanding Words That Wound by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
    Understanding Words That Wound - by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

    £38.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780813341392 | ISBN 10: 0813341396

    Written by leading critical race theorists Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, this volume succinctly explores a host of issues presented by hate speech, including legal theories for regulating it, the harms it causes, and policy arguments, pro and c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Race Matters by Cornel West
    Race Matters - by Cornel West

    £12.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780679749868 | ISBN 10: 0679749861

    With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate. Cornel West is at the forefront of ... more

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