Tackling Racism: Resources to read, listen to and watch

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 Black male voices in HE, 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. Beyond Respectability – The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper
2. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
3. Parable of the Brown Girl: The sacred lives of girls of colour by Khristi Lauren Adams
4. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
5. Becoming by Michelle Obama
6. When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Memoir by Petrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
7. Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D Farmer
8. Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
9. Someone Else's Baby by Ruby Speechley
10. Black British Feminism: A Reader by Heidi Safia Mirza

LGBTQ+

1. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, by Charlene Carruthers
2. Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
3. Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien
4. Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s by W Ian Bourland
5. Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women by E Patrick Johnson
6. The Tradition by Jericho Brown
7. Black on Both Sides: A Radical History of Trans Identity
8. We Are Everywhere: Protests, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer
9. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson
10. Rainbow Revolutions: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager

What to listen to

1. About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge 
2. The Receipts Podcast
3. Have you heard George's podcast? With George the Poet
4. Dope Black Dads
5. Why aren't you a doctor yet?
6. UCL Talking to Titans: Dr Ijeoma Uchegbu (Episode 1) – Black female professor's struggle to overcome barriers to success
7. 1619
8. Good Ancestor with Layla F. Saad
9. Speaking of race
10. For the Creatives
11. Still processing

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 Black male voices in HE  (Added 3/11)

• Akala x Black British History: An Introduction - Part 1
• Akala x Natives: Race and Class | 'Born In The 80s' (Live Reading)
• An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi
• Get comfortable with being uncomfortable, Luvvie Ajayi 
• Understanding my privilege Sue Borrego, TEDxPasadenaWomen