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@Islingtonlibs Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinené Slay In Your Lane Book, eAudiobook & eBook Essential reading for a generation of black women inspired to find success in every area of their lives.

Akala Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire Book Akala takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today.

Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow Book, eAudiobook, eBook A stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status.

Calvin Baker A More Perfect Reunion Book & eAudiobook Acclaimed writer Calvin Baker argues in this bracing, necessary book, that we first need to envision a society no longer defined by the structures of race in order to create one.

James Baldwin & Raoul Peck I Am Not Your Negro Book & eBook Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States - then, and today. Mahzarin R Banaji & Anthony G Greenwald Blindspot Book & eAudiobook The authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionised the way scientists learn about the human mind.

Asha Bandele & Patrisse Khan-Cullors When They Call You a Terrorist Book, eAudiobook & eBook The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born.

Emily Bernard Black is the Body Book, eAudiobook & eBook An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race - in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way - in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays.

Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross A Black Women's History of the United States Book & eAudiobook A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are instrumental in shaping the country.

Jeffrey Boakye Black, listed: black British culture explored Book An exploration of twenty-first century Black identity told through a list of insults, insights and everything in between. Austin Channing Brown I'm Still Here Book & eAudiobook An eye-opening account of what it's like to grow up black, Christian, and female in white America.

Charlene Carruthers Unapologetic Book, eAudiobook & eBook This 21st-century activist's guide to upending mainstream ideas about race, class, and gender carves out a path to collective liberation.

Ashley 'Dotty' Charles Outraged Book & eAudiobook A candid exploration of the state of outrage in our culture, and how we can channel it back into the fights that matter.

Stephen Cleary I Put a Spell on You Book, eAudiobook & eBook The autobiography of Nina Simone.

Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me Book & eAudiobook “This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” Emma Dabiri Don't Touch My Hair Book, eAudiobook & eBook Straightened. Stigmatised. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'.

Robin DiAngelo White Fragility Book, eAudiobook & eBook 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.

Jennifer Eberhardt Biased Book, eAudiobook & eBook Unconscious biases can be small and insignificant, but they affect every sector of society, leading to enormous disparities, from the classroom to the courtroom to the boardroom.

Reni Eddo-Lodge Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Book, eAudiobook & eBook A powerful and provocative argument on the role that race and racism play in modern Britain, by the award-winning journalist.

Crystal Marie Fleming How to Be Less Stupid About Race Book & eAudiobook A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our “national conversation about race”—and what to do about it. Aminatta Forna The Devil That Danced on the Water Book An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.

Michael Fuller Kill the Black One First Book, eAudiobook & eBook A story about race, identity, belonging and displacement, this is the memoir from Michael Fuller - Britain's first ever black Chief Constable.

Henry Louis Gates & Tonya Bolden Dark Sky Rising Book & eAudiobook This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters.

Paul Gilroy Book, eAudiobook There ain't no black in the Union Jack & eBook This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race.

Lawrence Goldstone Stolen Justice Book & eAudiobook A thrilling and incisive examination of the post- Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United States. Colin Grant Homecoming Book, eAudiobook & eBook An unforgettable portrait of a generation, which brilliantly illuminates an essential and much-misunderstood chapter of our history.

Afua Hirsch Brit(ish) Book, eAudiobook & eBook The uncomfortable truth about race in Britain today.

Bell Hooks Ain't I a Woman Book This classic study examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women.

C.L.R. James The Black Jacobins Book This classic work chronicles the only successful slave revolt in history and provides a critical portrait of their leader, Toussaint L'Ouverture.

Andre E Johnson & Amanda Nell Edgar The Struggle Over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter Book & eBook Traces the meanings of these movements from the perspectives of ordinary participants. Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives Book & eBook A stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

Ibram X Kendi How to Be an Antiracist Book, eAudiobook & eBook Demolishes the myth of the post-racial society and builds from the ground up a vital new understanding of racism.

Ibram X Kendi Stamped From the Beginning Book, eAudiobook & eBook A gripping, comprehensive and game-changing reappraisal of the causes and extent of anti-Black racism.

Kiese Laymon Heavy Book & eBook The story of the black male experience in America you've never read before.

Kiese Laymon How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Book & eBook A timely collection of essays on issues of race, culture, family and what is tearing modern America apart. Alana Lentin Racism Book & eAudiobook A comprehensive study of multiculturalism, Islamophobia and the way race and culture are being redefined.

Audre Lorde Sister Outsider Book, eAudiobook & eBook This collection of Lorde's essential prose explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity.

Wesley Lowery They Can't Kill Us All Book & eBook Reports the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement and offers unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America, and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.

James McBride The Color of Water Book As a boy in Brooklyn's Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she'd simply say 'I'm light-skinned.'

Dani McClain We Live for the We Book & eAudiobook A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a long-time reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics. DeRay Mckesson On the Other Side of Freedom Book & eBook "Our work needs no more martyrs. You can fight these fights and live."

Toni Morrison Mouth Full of Blood Book Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us.

Solomon Northup Twelve Years a Slave Book, eAudiobook & eBook A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history.

Ijeoma Oluo So You Want to Talk about Race Book & eAudiobook An exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.

David Olusoga Black and British Book & eBook A rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Steve Phillips Brown Is the New White Book & eBook Argues that, now more than ever, hope for a more progressive political future lies not with increased advertising to middle-of-the-road white voters, but with cultivating America’s growing, diverse majority.

Johny Pitts Afropean Book, eAudiobook & eBook An on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities.

Claudia Rankine Citizen Book & eBook In this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems, Claudia Rankine examines the experience of race and racism in Western society.

Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi Stamped Book & eAudiobook A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism, and anti-racism, in America.

Layla Saad Me and White Supremacy Book Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. Create the change the world needs by creating change within yourself. Angela Saini Superior Book & eBook A rigorous, much needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race science.

Margot Lee Shetterley Hidden Figures Book & eBook The never-before-told true story of NASA’s African- American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.

Nikesh Shukla The Good Immigrant Book, eAudiobook & eBook Twenty British Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic writers and artists reflect on race, immigration and being ‘other’ in Great Britain.

Lemn Sissay My Name is Why Book & eBook This is Lemn's story: a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph.

Rebecca Skloot Book, eAudiobook The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks & eBook The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever... Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin How We Fight White Supremacy Book & Audiobook A must-read for anyone new to resistance work, and for the next generation of leaders building a better future.

Ron Stallworth Black Klansman Book, eAudiobook & eBook What happens when a black detective goes undercover in the KKK? An extraordinary true story.

Bryan A Stevenson Just Mercy Book, eAudiobook & eBook Stevenson recounts many and varied stories of his work as a lawyer in the U.S. criminal justice system on behalf of those in society who have experienced some type of discrimination.

Matt Taibbi I Can't Breathe Book & eBook The incredible story of the death of Eric Garner, the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement and the new fault-lines of race, protest, policing and the power of the people.

Charlamagne Tha God Black Privilege Book Charlamagne presents his often controversial and always brutally honest insights on how living an authentic life is the quickest path to success. Shashi Tharoor Inglorious Empire Book, eAudiobook & eBook Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.

Baratunde Thurston How to Be Black Book With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be."

Jesmyn Ward The Fire This Time Book & eBook A timely and ground-breaking collection of essays and poems about race in America, from some of its most unique and powerful voices.

Jesmyn Ward Men We Reaped Book A trenchant memoir of rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in America's Deep South.

Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming Book & eAudiobook In vivid poems, Woodson shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Boule Whytelaw Think Like a White Man Book A satirical guide to conquering the world... while black.

Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book This an enormously important record of the Civil Rights Movement in America, and also the scintillating story of a man who refused to allow anyone to tell him who or what he was.

Malcolm X The End of White World Supremacy Book & eBook Four major speeches by Malcolm X, including: “Black Man's History,” “The Black Revolution,” “The Old Negro and the New Negro,” and the famous “The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost”.

Damon Young What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker Book & eBook A provocative and humourous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America.