#blacklivesmatter racism is a human problem

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