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 @thisisbooklove @WiderReads @LetterboxLib @BooksRound and @TinyOwl_Books. You may wish to explore this reading list poster, this virtual library, this video of a kid's book about racism by Jelani Memory, Books for Keeps, this article, this reading list, this list from Penguin, and this collection.
If you'd like to recommend a read to be added to this page, please contact us.
100 Great Black Britons
Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne
A biography of the word ‘Paki’: Racist incident in the workplace
Dr Karamat Iqbal
A Different Perspective on Equality a Practical Handbook
Laura Chapman
A Fly Girl's Guide To University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Elitism and Power
Odelia Younge
A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools
Bennie Kara
A Portrait of English Racism
Ann Dummett
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
Johnny Pitts
Anti-Racist Science Teaching
Dawn Gill and Les Levidow
Assimilating Identities: Racism and Educational Policy in Post 1945 Britain
Ian Grosvenor
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
Kehinde Andrews
Because They're Black
Derek Humphry and Gus John
Becoming an Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression
Anne Bishop
Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity
Floyd Cobb and John Krownapple
Biased
Jennifer Eberhart
Black and British: A Forgotten History
David Olusoga
Black Britain: A Photographic History
Paul Gilroy
Black Enough
Ibi Zoboi
Black girls rock
Beverly Bond
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored
Jeffrey Boakye
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
Black Tudors: The Untold Story
Miranda Kaufmann
Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies
Olivia Perlow and others
Brit(ish): On race, identity and belonging
Afua Hirsch
Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World
Ellis Cose
Critical Race Theory
Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Angela Harris
Critical Race Theory in Education
Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Angela Harris
Cultures of Educational Leadership
Paul Miller
Dear Birmingham: A Conversation with My Hometown
Karamat Iqbal
Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children
Stuart McNaughton
Dismantling Race in Higher Education
Jason Arday and Heidi Safia Mirza
Diversify
June Sarpong
Does My Head Look Big in This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Don't Touch My Hair
Emma Dabiri
Eagles Who Soar: How Black Learners Find the Path to Success
Jasmine Rhamie
Education for Some: Summary of the Eggleston Report on the Educational and Vocational Experiences of Young Black People (Runnymede research report)
Anne Newnham
Elouqent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower
Brittney Cooper
Every Muslim Child Matters
Maurice Irfan Coles
Exploring School Leadership in England and the Caribbean
Paul Miller
Factories for Learning
Christy Kulz
Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands
Stuart Hall
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Christopher Emdin
Gypsies & Travellers: A Teacher’s Guide
Steven Horne
Halal If You Hear Me
Fatimah Ashgar and Safia Elhilllo
Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain
Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, Suzanne Scafe
Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime
Jeffrey Boakye
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Colin Grant
Hostile Environment How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
Maya Goodfellow
How to be an antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
How We Fight White Supremacy
Akiba Solomon
I am a Promise: Achievement of British African-Caribbeans
Yvonne Channer
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
Intersectionality (key concepts)
Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge
It's Not About the Burqa
Mariam Khan
"Kill The Black One First": A Memoir
Michael Fuller
Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students
Carlin Borsheim-Black and Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides
Life Lessons The Case for a National Education Service
Melissa Benn
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain
Clair Wills
Mother country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain
Tariq Modood
Murder in the Playground: Report of the Macdonald Inquiry into Racism and Racial Violence in Manchester Schools
Ian MacDonald
Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure
Tahir Abbas
Myth of Return: Pakistanis in Britain
Muhammad Anwar
Natives: Race and class in the ruins of the empire
Akala
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
Margaret Busby (Editor)
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Sara Ahmed
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Lisa Delpit
Overcoming Everyday Racism: Building Resilience and Wellbeing in the Face of Discrimination and Microaggressions
Susan Cousins
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain
Hashi Mohamed
Performing Race - a fulltime job
Dr Karamat Iqbal
Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
Race and Education: Policy and Politics in Britain: Policy and Politics in Britain (Introducing Social Policy)
Sally Tomlinson
Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work: European Countries' Perspectives
Joana Vassilopoulou, Julienne Brabet, Victoria Showunmi
Race, Education and Educational Leadership in England
Paul Miller and Christine Callender
Racism and Education: Coincidence or Conspiracy?
David Gillborn
Racism and Education: Structures and Strategies
Dawn Gill & others
Racism without Racists
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Rethinking Multiculturalism
Bihkhu Parekh
Rife: Twenty Stories from Britain’s Youth
Nikesh Shukla
Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space
Derek Owusu
School Leadership, Curriculum Diversity, Social Justice and Critical Perspectives in Education
Paul Miller
Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race
Gavin Evans
Slay in your lane: the black girl bible
Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené
So you want to talk about race
Ijeoma Oluo
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
Peter Fryer
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Sani
Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change
Chelsea Kwakye
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
The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual
Lavelle Porter
The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling out Racist Stereotypes
Elijah Lawal
The Colour of Madness
Samara Linton
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
Jesmyn Ward (Editor)
The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
Benjamin Zephaniah
The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings Among British Pakistanis (Explorations in Anthropology)
Pnina Werbner
The Nature of School Leadership
Paul Miller
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
Damian Le Bas
The Souls of Black Folk
W E B DuBois
The things I would tell you
Sabrina Mahfouz
The unexpected leader
Iesha Small
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment
Amelia Gentleman
The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices
Ian Gilbert (various)
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation
Paul Gilroy
Thick and other stories
Tressie McMilan Cottom
This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
Suketu Mehta
We live for the we
Dani McClain
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Bell Hooks
We're All White Thanks
Chris Gaine
What If
Steve Robbins
What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions
Nikesh Shukla and Claire Heuchan
What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway)
Nimko Ali
White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism
Roger Hewitt
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
White Rage
Carol Anderson
Whiteness: An Introduction
Steve Garner
Who am I, again?
Lenny Henry
Who do We Think We Are?: Imagining the New Britain
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
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
Windrush: The Irresistible Rise Of Multi-Racial Britain
Mike and Trevor Phillips
Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children About Race
Dr Pragya Agarwal
You Wouldn't Understand: White Teachers in Multiethnic Classrooms
Sarah Pearce