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Tackling Racism: Resources to read, listen to and watch

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This list of resources covers books to read, TV shows and videos to watch and podcasts to listen to - updated to include a new series of videos from AdvanceHE exploring Black male voices in HE.

This is not an exhaustive list - if you have suggestions to include please send them to Vice-Chancellor's Forum.

New additions

  • Advance HE's new video series exploring , for further information see their website.  (Added 3/11)

What to read

General

  1. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
  2. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  3. The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What It Means To Be Black, Asian, And Minority Ethnic In Britain Today edited by Nikesh Shukla
  4. How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
  6. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  8. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  9. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  11. Black Face, White Mask by Frantz Fanon
  12. Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
  13. Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of Women of Colour Surviving and Thriving in British Academia by Deborah Gabriel and Shirley Anne Tate
  14. Overcoming Everyday Racism:  Building Resilience and Wellbeing in the Face of Discrimination and Microaggressions by Susan Cousins

Feminist

  1. by Brittney C. Cooper
  2. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  3. by Khristi Lauren Adams
  4. by Glory Edim
  5. by Michelle Obama
  6. by Petrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
  7.  by Ashley D Farmer
  8. Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
  9. Someone Else's Baby by Ruby Speechley
  10. by Heidi Safia Mirza

LGBTQ+

  1. , by Charlene Carruthers
  2. by Akwaeke Emezi
  3. by Chike Frankie Edozien
  4. by W Ian Bourland
  5.  by E Patrick Johnson
  6. by Jericho Brown
  7. Black on Both Sides: A Radical History of Trans Identity
  8. by Matthew Riemer
  9. by E. Patrick Johnson
  10. by Sarah Prager

What to listen to

  1. with Reni Eddo-Lodge 
  2. With George the Poet
  3. : Dr Ijeoma Uchegbu (Episode 1) – Black female professor's struggle to overcome barriers to success
  4. with Layla F. Saad

What to watch

TV Shows 

  1. When They See Us
  2. Insecure
  3. What Happened Miss Simone
  4. Lionheart
  5. Michelle Obama: Becoming
  6. Twelve Years a Slave
  7. Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee

Videos

  • Advance HE: New video series launched exploring   (Added 3/11)
  • (Live Reading)
  • , Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi
  • , Luvvie Ajayi 
  •  Sue Borrego, TEDxPasadenaWomen

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