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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2019
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Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour, who cannot give honest feedback to 'liberal' white people lest they provoke a dangerous emotional reaction....
2) Diversify
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Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2017
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Offering six stories, and six simple steps, Diversify explores the value we place on social packaging - how it shapes the way we see ourselves, determines who we become, and limits the opportunities available to us.Most importantly, offers practical tools, empowering us to challenge those limitations, and diversify. Combining sharp observations, fascinating case studies, and interviews with key political, cultural and business leaders, Diversify is...
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In February 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way discussions of race and racism in Britain were constantly being led by those who weren't affected by it. She posted the piece on her blog, and gave it the title: 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race'. Her powerful, passionate words hit a nerve. The post went viral, and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own, similar experiences....
5) Ruby Tanya
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Publisher
Corgi Yearling
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A school-girl and her friend from the local asylum seekers camp overcome the racial prejudice that blows up when a bomb goes off at their school and together help prevent those responsible from committing a second atrocity.
6) Always
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Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The final book in the story of Felix finds him in the modern world and helping an old friend with a new, young one.
8) Dear Martin
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Publisher
Simon & S
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A black honour student starts keeping a journal in which he writes to Martin Luther King Jr.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
When did Africans first come to Britain? Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings? Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution? These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian?s Wall right up to the present day. This new children's version of the bestseller Black and British: A Forgotten History...
Author
Publisher
The Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2019
Description
We all occasionally think or do things that are racist. No one considers themselves to be a racist. Yet the divisions and inequalities of racism are all around us. In this game-changing, empowering book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that racism is so engrained in our world and yet so taboo that we often fail to recognise it, especially in ourselves.
11) The outcasts
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Publisher
Corgi Yearling
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Hal becomes the leader of a team of outcasts and must fight against other Brotherbands in sea battles in the land of Skandia.
13) Ghost boys
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Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A 12-year-old boy's ghost watches his family in the aftermath of his death after being shot dead by a policeman.
14) Three bullets
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Publisher
Andersen Pr
Pub. Date
2021
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In a near-future Britain where civil war rages against an extreme right-wing government, a teenage trans mixed-race girl sets out to save her father and deliver his vital software, hidden in her 'phone.
Author
Publisher
535
Pub. Date
2018
Description
'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David Lammy Foreword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive Lloyd Voices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation - West Indians who emigrated to Britain between 1948 and 1971 in response to labour shortages, and in search of a better life. Edited by journalist and bestselling author David Matthews, this book...
16) A strange land
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Publisher
Barrington Stoke
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A boy is blackmailed by a racist gang at his school to destroy the competition artwork of his friend, a refugee from Syria.
19) Juror no. 3
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar - and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defence counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned...
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Pub. Date
2022
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What are the challenges of living between different cultures or identifying with one and not the other? How do you negotiate two worlds when you may not feel fully accepted in either? What are the challenges of being in a mixed race relationship and starting a family? How you do manage the stark reality of racism within your own family? In the last census, Britain recorded over 1.2 million people who identified as mixed race. In The Mixed Race Experience,...