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Refugees are welcome: A Reading List
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To achieve our collective mission of an education sector that is reflective of society, we’ve gathered a range of useful resources and reading for our network. If you’d like to recommend any content to be added to this page, please get in touch with us.
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Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community
Liz Kleinrock Most educators want to cultivate an antibias and antiracist classroom and school community,
9th November 2021
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Diversity and Inclusion in Early Childhood
Chandrika Devarakonda Covering a wide range of concepts and taking a broader perspective of what
5th February 2021
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Promoting Inclusion and Diversity in Early Years Settings
Chandrika Devarakonda A Professional Guide to Ethnicity, Religion, Culture and Language This guide provides insights,
5th February 2021
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Influential Black Britons illustrated book
UK Parliament This resource contains stories of influential black Britons who have impacted UK laws
10th November 2020
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Whites : On Race and Other Falsehoods
Otegha Uwagba In this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on
27th October 2020
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The emperor has no clothes: Teaching about race and racism to people who don’t want to know
Tema Okun A volume in educational leadership for social justice. Read the book
10th October 2020
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You Wouldn’t Understand: White Teachers in Multiethnic Classrooms
Sarah Pearce You Wouldn’t Understand looks at how white teachers regard ethnic diversity in their
10th October 2020
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Sway : Unravelling Unconscious Bias
Dr Pragya Agarwal Meticulously researched and well written. It will make you think hard about
10th October 2020
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Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children About Race
Dr Pragya Agarwal A thoughtful, prescient read for any mother or father parenting through the
10th October 2020
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Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-racial Britain
Trevor Phillips Broadcaster Trevor Phillips and his novelist brother Mike retell the very human story
10th October 2020
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge ‘Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power.’ We can’t afford
10th October 2020
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black
10th October 2020
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Who do We Think We Are?: Imagining the New Britain
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown To answer the question which is the title of this book, the author
10th October 2020
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Who am I, again?
Lenny Henry In his long-awaited autobiography, Sir Lenny Henry tells the extraordinary story of his
10th October 2020
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Whiteness: An Introduction
Steve Garner What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the
10th October 2020
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing
10th October 2020
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White privilege: The myth of a post-racial society
Kalwant Bhopal Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to
10th October 2020
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white
10th October 2020
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White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism
Roger Hewitt The murder of Stephen Lawrence led to the widest review of institutional racism
10th October 2020
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What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia
Nimko Ali 14 countries, 42 women, each with a story no one has heard before.
10th October 2020
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What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions
Nikesh Shukla, Claire Heuchan An important and timely book on race and racism, encouraging children
10th October 2020
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What If?: Short Stories to Spark Inclusion and Diversity
Steve Robbins From incomparable storyteller and beloved diversity and inclusion expert, Steve L. Robbins, comes
10th October 2020
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We’re All White Thanks: The Persisting Myth About ‘White’ Schools
Chris Gaine Pupils’ and teachers’ perspectives on race are changing, particularly in regions where white
10th October 2020
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Bell Hooks “When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always
10th October 2020
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We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
Dani McClain A longtime reporter on race, reproductive justice, policy and politics, Dani McClain is
10th October 2020
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
Suketu Mehta Drawing on his family s own experience emigrating from India to Britain and
10th October 2020
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Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie
10th October 2020
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There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation
Paul Gilroy This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By
10th October 2020
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The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices
Edited by Ian Gilbert One of the most intractable problems in modern education is how
10th October 2020
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The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment
Amelia Gentleman How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you
10th October 2020
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The Unexpected Leader: Exploring the real nature of values, authenticity and moral purpose in education
Iesha Small Iesha Small’s The Unexpected Leader: Exploring the real nature of values, authenticity and
10th October 2020
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The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
Sabrina Mahfouz Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV
10th October 2020
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The Souls of Black Folk
W E B Du Bois The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the
10th October 2020
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The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
Damian Le Bas ‘I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to
10th October 2020
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The Nature of School Leadership
Professor Paul Miller This book explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on
10th October 2020
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The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis
Pnina Werbner This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and
10th October 2020
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
Benjamin Zephaniah Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism,
10th October 2020
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The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched
10th October 2020
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
Jesmyn Ward A timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America.
10th October 2020
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The Colour of Madness: Exploring BAME mental health in the UK
Samara Linton, Rianna Walcott The Colour Of Madness is a seminal BAME led & curated anthology,
10th October 2020
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The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling out Racist Stereotypes
Elijah Lawal Clapback: [Noun / Verb] Responding to a (often ignorant) notion with a withering
10th October 2020
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The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual
Lavelle Porter The Blackademic Life critically examines academic fiction produced by black writers. Lavelle Porter evaluates
10th October 2020
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Tell It Like It Is – Old Ed: How Our Schools Fail Black Children
Brian Richardson 34 years ago Grenadian scholar Bernard Coard caused a social and political storm
10th October 2020
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Bell Hooks In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind
10th October 2020
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Teacher Training and the Education of Black Children: Bringing Color into Difference
Uvanney Maylor This book is designed to challenge dominant educational discourses on the underachievement of
10th October 2020
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Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change
Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking
10th October 2020
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year
10th October 2020
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Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
Peter Fryer Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the
10th October 2020
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So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma
10th October 2020
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Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible
Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené ‘Black women today are well past making waves – we’re currently creating
10th October 2020
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Skin Deep: Dispelling the Science of Race
Gavin Evans Racial differences are rooted in biological reality, right? That’s certainly what a small
10th October 2020
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School Leadership, Curriculum Diversity, Social Justice and Critical Perspectives in Education
Professor Paul Miller In the face of changing demographics, reduced funding and more stringent accountability
10th October 2020
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Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today
Derek Owusu Never has the conversation about racism and inclusion been more important; there is
10th October 2020
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Rife : Twenty-One Stories from Britain’s Youth
Nikesh Shukla Young people in this country are facing a chasm of doubt and instability.
10th October 2020
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Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory
Bhikhu Parekh This important and much acclaimed book rapidly became a classic on first publication.
10th October 2020
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Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva This edition includes a chapter examining the Obama mystery, the election of a
10th October 2020
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Racism and Education: Structures and Strategies
Dawn Gill, Barbara Mayor, Maud Blair, Dr Maud Blair This broad-ranging text offers a timely overview of both
10th October 2020
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Racism and Education: Coincidence or Conspiracy?
David Gillborn Education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality but to sustain it
10th October 2020
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Race, Education and Educational Leadership in England: An Integrated Analysis
Professor Paul Miller In recent years, the issue of race in education in the UK
10th October 2020
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Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work: European Countries’ Perspectives
Joana Vassilopoulou, Julienne Brabet, Victoria Showunmi Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work analyses
10th October 2020
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Race and Education: Policy and Politics in Britain
Sally Tomlinson How successful has Britain been in accommodating racial, religious and cultural diversity in
10th October 2020
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Performing Race – a fulltime job
Dr Karamat Iqbal When one is a visible minority in a white majority context one
10th October 2020
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People Like Us : What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain
Hashi Mohamed Using his own extraordinary story as a spine [Hashi Mohamed] has written an
10th October 2020
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Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Lisa Delpit This anniversary paperback edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as
10th October 2020
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On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Sara Ahmed What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language
10th October 2020
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New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
Margaret Busby Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology Daughters of Africa illuminated the ‘silent,
10th October 2020
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Akala It’s personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now’ Benjamin Zephaniah’I
10th October 2020
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Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure
Tahir Abbas This edited collection is a cogent exploration of how the events of September
10th October 2020
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Murder in the Playground
Ian MacDonald Report of the MacDonald Inquiry into Racism and Racial Violence in Manchester Schools.
10th October 2020
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Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain
Tariq Modood Muslims have come to be perceived as the ‘Other’ that is most threatening
10th October 2020
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Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was ‘the Mother Country’. They
10th October 2020
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Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain
Clair Wells From all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took
10th October 2020
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Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service
Melissa Benn It is time for a radical shake up of the purposes and practices
10th October 2020
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Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students
Carlin Borsheim-Black, Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides, Timothy J. Lensmire Rooted in examples from their own and others’ classrooms,
10th October 2020
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A Search For Belonging: A story about race, identity, belonging and displacement
Michael Fuller Michael Fuller had an idyllic childhood growing up in care in Surrey, looked
10th October 2020
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It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
Mariam Khan Mariam felt pretty sure she didn’t know a single Muslim woman who would
10th October 2020
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Intersectionality (Key Concepts)
Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic
10th October 2020
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I am a Promise: Achievement of British African-Caribbeans
Yvonne Channer This volume presents evidence which challenges the persistent myth of black educational underachievement.
10th October 2020
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How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance
by Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy,
10th October 2020
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How To Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that
10th October 2020
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Hostile Environment : How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
Maya Goodfellow Maya Goodfellow tracks this history through to the present day, looking at both
10th October 2020
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Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Colin Grant Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by
10th October 2020
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Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime
Jeffrey Boakye Celebrating over fifty key songs that make up Grime’s DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores
10th October 2020
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Heart Of The Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain
Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, Suzanne Scafe Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version
10th October 2020
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Gypsies & Travellers: A Teacher’s Guide
Steven Horne A little over 500 years ago the first people under the ‘Gypsy’ banner
10th October 2020
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For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
by Christopher Emdin Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as
10th October 2020
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Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands
Stuart Hall Stuart Hall’s story is the story of an age’ Owen Jones ‘Sometimes I
10th October 2020
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Factories for Learning: Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy
Christy Kulz Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on
10th October 2020
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Exploring School Leadership in England and the Caribbean
Professor Paul Miller · What drives school leaders?· What do they do on a day
10th October 2020
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Every Muslim Child Matters: Practical Guidance for Schools and Children’s Services
Maurice Irfan Coles Issues surrounding Islam have the potential to divide society but also to
10th October 2020
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Brittney Cooper Far too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and
10th October 2020
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Eagles Who Soar: How Black Learners Find the Path to Success
Jasmine Rhamie Statistics confirm a general picture in which African Caribbean pupils’ attainment in examinations
10th October 2020
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Don’t Touch My Hair
Emma Dabiri From women’s solidarity and friendship to forgotten African scholars and the dubious provenance
10th October 2020
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Does My Head Look Big in This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah School is tough enough without throwing a hijab into the mix… Amal is
10th October 2020
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Diversify
June Sarpong The truth is, INCLUSION is better for EVERYONE. In this empowering call to
10th October 2020
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Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy
Jason Arday, Heidi Safia Mirza This book reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social
10th October 2020
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Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children
Stuart McNaughton How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally
10th October 2020
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Dear Birmingham: A Conversation with My Hometown
Dr Karamat Iqbal The largest Pakistani community in the UK is to be found in
10th October 2020
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Cultures of Educational Leadership : Global and Intercultural Perspectives
Professor Paul Miller (Editor) This book explores how to be fully cross-cultural and intercultural with
10th October 2020
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Critical Race Theory: an Introduction
Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack
10th October 2020
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Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World
Ellis Cose Is a truly race-neutral society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate
10th October 2020
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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
Afua Hirsch You’re British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of
10th October 2020
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Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing Within and Beyond the Academy
Olivia N. Perlow (Editor), Durene I. Wheeler (Editor), Sharon L. Bethea (Editor), BarBara M. Scott (Editor) This interdisciplinary anthology sheds light on
10th October 2020
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story
by Miranda Kaufmann A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a
10th October 2020
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Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon ‘Fanon is our contemporary … In clear language, in words that can only
10th October 2020
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Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored
Jeffrey Boakye What’s wrong with calling someone a ‘lighty’? Why do people think black guys
10th October 2020
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Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.
Beverly Bond From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK!
10th October 2020
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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Edited by Ibi Zoboi Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough is an
10th October 2020
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Black Britain: A Photographic History
Paul Gilroy Black people have inhabited the British Isles for centuries. Eminent professor Paul Gilroy,
10th October 2020
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Black and British: A Forgotten History
David Olusoga Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back
10th October 2020
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Biased
Dr Jennifer Eberhardt In a single interaction, they might slip by unnoticed. Over thousands of
10th October 2020
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Belonging Through A Culture Of Dignity
Floyd Cobb, John Krownapple While efforts to achieve equity in education are prominent in school districts
10th October 2020
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Becoming an Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression
Anne Bishop This book, published in Europe and USA for the first time, looks specifically
10th October 2020
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Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (Blackness in Britain)
Kehinde Andrews Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born
10th October 2020
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Assimilating Identities: Racism and Educational Policy in Post 1945 Britain
Ian Grosvenor This is an historical analysis of the central role played by the educational
10th October 2020
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Anti-racist Science Teaching
An important contribution to the topical debate on multi-cultural education. The papers extend from general
10th October 2020
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Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity … A
10th October 2020
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A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools
Bennie Kara A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools aims to provide starting points
10th October 2020
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A Different Perspective on Equality a Practical Handbook
Laura Chapman The ability to contribute to shared prosperity is a fundamental part of what
10th October 2020
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A biography of the word ‘Paki’: Racist incident in the workplace
Dr Karamat Iqbal The Author dwells on a racist incident, the memory of which he
10th October 2020
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Black on both sides: a racial history of trans identity
C Riley Snorton In 2015, while garnering publicity for the feature film Grandmain a live
10th October 2020
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100 Great Black Britons
Discover new role models and previously little-known historical figures. Buy the book
4th September 2020