On this page, we've collated a range of books that have influenced our thinking, encouraged conversation and have often affected our perspectives on diversity and intersectionality.
If you're looking for diverse reading suggestions for young adults and children then we'd recommend following @WiderReads
If you'd like to recommend a read to be added to this page, please contact us.
A Fly Girl's Guide To University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Elitism and Power
Odelia Younge
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
Kehinde Andrews
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
Zora Neale Hurston
Black and British: A Forgotten History
David Olusoga
Black Enough
Ibi Zoboi
Black girls rock
Beverly Bond
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored
Jeffrey Boakye
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
Brit(ish): On race, identity and belonging
Afua Hirsch
The Colour of Madness
Samara Linton
Dismantling Race in Higher Education
Jason Arday and Heidi Safia Mirza
Diversify
June Sarpong
Does My Head Look Big in This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Elouqent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower
Brittney Cooper
Factories for Learning
Christy Kulz
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Christopher Emdin
The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla
Halal If You Hear Me
Fatimah Ashgar and Safia Elhilllo
Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime
Jeffrey Boakye
How We Fight White Supremacy
Akiba Solomon
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
It's Not About the Burqa
Mariam Khan
Mother country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Natives: Race and class in the ruins of the empire
Akala
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Sara Ahmed
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Lisa Delpit
Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
Race, Education and Educational Leadership in England
Paul Miller and Christine Callender
Slay in your lane: the black girl bible
Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené
Souls of Black Folk
W E B DuBois
So you want to talk about race
Ijeoma Oluo
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
Damian Le Bas
Teacher Training and the Education of Black Children
Uvanney Maylor
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Bell Hooks
Tell It Like It Is: How Our Schools Fail Black Children
Brian Richardson
Thick and other stories
Tressie McMilan Cottom
The things I would tell you
Sabrina Mahfouz
The unexpected leader
Iesha Small
We live for the we
Dani McClain
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Bell Hooks
What If
Steve Robbins
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo
White privilege: The myth of a post-racial society
Kalwant Bhopal
Whiteness: An Introduction
Steve Garner
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race
Renni Eddo-Lodge
The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices
Ian Gilbert (various)
You Wouldn't Understand: White Teachers in Multiethnic Classrooms
Sarah Pearce