• I basically never look at anything other than subscribed threads but was surprised (well maybe not) there wasn’t one on this given how popular Brexit/coronavirus threads are.

    As part of my education I’m making my way through as much reading on the subject as I can, so that I might listen & learn from those who know more and share that with others. Here is a list that was shared with me which I thought might be useful for others too.

    Fiction
    Black British authors
    Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo
    That Reminds Me - Derek Owusu
    Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
    Ordinary People - Diane Evans
    The Confessions of Frannie Langton - Sara Collins
    Swing Time - Zadie Smith
    White Teeth - Zadie Smith
    Small Island - Andrea Levy

    African-American authors (Contemporary)
    Sing, Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
    Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
    The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennet
    The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Such a Fun Age - Kiley Age
    Red to the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson
    Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
    We Cast a Shadow - Maurice Carlos Ruffin
    Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
    The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
    An American Marriage - Tarayi Jones

    African-American authors (20th century)
    Kindred - Octavia Butler
    The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
    The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
    The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

    African & Carribean authors
    August Town - Kei Miller
    Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    The Girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Daré
    Stay with me - Ayobami Adebayo
    My Sister the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
    Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga

    Memoirs
    Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire - Akala
    How We Fight for our Lives - Saeed Jones
    Kill the Black One First - Michael Fuller
    When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - Patrisse Cullors and Asha Bandele
    I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
    Becoming - Michelle Obama

    Short stories / Essays
    Heads of Coloured People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires
    Race - Toni Morrison
    They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib
    Feel Free - Zadie Smith
    We Were 8 Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates
    How to love a Jamican - Alexia Arthurs
    What is not Yours is not Yours - Helen Oyeyemi
    I shall not be Erased - gal-dem
    What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky - Lesley Nneka Arimah

    Non fiction
    British writers
    Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race - Reni Eddo Lodge
    Natives - Akala
    Brit(ish) - Afua Hirsh
    Black and British: A Forgotten History - David Oyewole
    There ain’t no Black in the Union Jack - Paul Gilroy
    The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla (editor)
    Don’t Touch My Hair - Emma Dabiri
    How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality - Adam Rutherford

    American writers
    White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson
    Me and White Supremacy - Layla F Saad
    Stamped: Racism, Anti Racism, and You - Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi
    How to be Anti Racist - Ibram X Kendi
    So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
    White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
    They Can’t Kill Us All - Wesley Lowery

    Black Feminists
    Eloquent Rage - Brittney Cooper
    Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall
    White Tears, Brown Scars - Ruby Hamad
    Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
    How We Get Free - Keenaga-Yamahtta Taylor

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