Reading List

There are some brilliant articles and books that you can read to help you develop your understanding of this movement. You can find a full list of our best recommends below:

Books:

• Why I’m No longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge 

• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown 

• Natives by Akala 

• Dark Days by James Baldwin 

• Diversify by June Sarpong 

• How To Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 

• Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri 

• White Supremacy and Me by Layla F. Saad 

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 

• Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis 

• They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery 

• Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde 

• White Girls by Hilton Als 

• Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch 

• Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga 

• The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla 

Articles:

• Put our colonial history on the curriculum - then we’ll understand who we really are 

• UK exports of tear gas and rubber bullets 

• The stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain 

• Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK: State of the Nation 

• A brief history of police brutality in the UK 

• “This is how to support Black British people right now - and how not to” 

• ‘Black-on-black’ crime is a myth, and here’s why 

• (Longer study) Sustaining systemic racism through psychological gaslighting 

• A world without police 

• Dear White British Classmates, You Are Most Likely Racist. This Is Why

• Extent of institutional racism in British universities revealed through hidden stories 

• 15 headlines that show how differently the British press treat Meghan Markle vs. Kate Middleton 

• Why systemic racism is not a US problem  

• What has really happened since Macpherson’s Report  

• How to respond to racism 

• Legislation that has been proposed/passed to address police brutality 

• If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you’d never use it 

• What is qualified immunity, and what does it have to do with police reform? 

• Cops are almost never prosecuted and convicted for use of force 

• 6 reasons why it’s time to defund the police 

• Dear anti-racist allies: Here’s how to respond to microaggressions 

• Understanding the Windrush Scandal 

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” 

• The 1619 Project

• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston

• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups 

• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” 

• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh