Strawberry Words' Antiracism Reading List

antiracism education antiracism training Nov 01, 2022

Often allies who want to do more, want to know how they can get more information without having to trawl through Google and Amazon to find the best books. So, we've you and your colleagues out by compiling a list of books and websites where you can learn more. 

We're really pleased that the University of Birmingham have purchased all the books from our reading list and have committed to doing so as we continue to update it. 

Thank you for taking the time to learn about such an important topic. 

Strawberry Words' Antiracism Reading List 

Books

Antiblackness – Moon Kie Jung and Joao H Costa Vargas

Anti-racism in Higher Education, An action guide for change – Edited by Arun Verma

Black and British, A forgotten history - David Olusoga

Black Fatigue, How racism erodes the mind, body and spirit - Mary-Frances Winters

Black in White Space, The enduring impact of colour in everyday life - Elijah Anderson

Building an Inclusive Organisation, Leveraging the power of a diverse workforce - Stephen Frost and Raafi-Karim Alidina

Color Code – 10 essential antiracist tools and strategies for social work practitioners – Aaron Ross Green Sr.

Diversify, Six degrees of integration - June Sarpong

Exploring Culture, Exercises, stories and synthetic cultures - Gert Jan Hofstede, Paul B. Pedersen, Geert Hofstede

Fatal Invention, how science, politics and big business recreate race in the twenty first century - Dorothy Roberts

Hood Feminism, notes from the women white feminists forgot – Mikki Kendall

How To Be an Antiracist – Ibram X Kendi ***A great book for beginners

Intersectionality, an intellectual history – Ange-Marie Hancock

Living While Black, The essential guide to overcoming racial trauma -   Guilaine Kinouani

Me and White Supremacy, How to recognise your privilege, combat racism and change the world - Layla F Saad ***A great book for beginners

Microintervention Strategies – Derald Wing Sue, Cassandra Z. Calle, Narolyn Mendez, Sarah Alsaidi and Elizabeth Glaser

Mixed/Other – Explorations of multiraciality in modern Britain – Natalie Morris

Nice Racism,  How progressive white people perpetuate racial harm – Robin Diangelo

Overcoming Bias - Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran

Race Talk and The Conspiracy of Silence – understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race. Derald Wing Sue

Raising Biracial Children – Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Lasloffy

Rebel Ideas, The power of diverse thinking - Matthew Syed

The Ethics of Microaggressions – Regina Rini

The Good Ally – A guided ant-racism journey from bystander to changemaker – Nova Reid

The History of White People - Nell Irvin Painter

The New Age of Empire, How racism and colonialism still rule the world - Kehinde Andrews

The Racial Healing Handbook, practical activities to help you challenge privilege, confront systemic racism & engage in collective healing - Anneliese A Singh

The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Bois

So You Want to talk about Race? Ijeoma Oluo ***A great book for beginners

Subtle Acts of Exclusion, How to understand, identify and stop microaggressions - Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran ***A great book for beginners

Sway, Unravelling unconscious bias - Pragya Agarwal

White Fragility – Why it’s so hard to talk to white people about racism by Robin DiAngelo

Why I’m No longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge 

 

Websites

A definition of unconscious bias: https://diversity.ucsf.edu/resources/unconscious-bias

A definition of microaggressions https://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8031073/what-are-microaggressions?__c=1

An overview and examples of white privilege https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2017/07/24/10-examples-that-prove-white-privilege-exists-in-every-aspect-imaginable/

What is allyship? https://guidetoallyship.com/

Diversity Doesn’t Stick without Inclusion – Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2017/02/diversity-doesnt-stick-without-inclusion?registration=success

Ending Ethnic Discrimination in Recruitment – The Strategic Society Centre https://strategicsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ending-ethnic-discrimination-in-recruitment.pdf

The Creative Case for Diversity - https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/sites/default/files/download-file/Diversity_report_1718.pdf

The McGregor-Smith Review - Race in the Workplace https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/race-in-the-workplace-the-mcgregor-smith-review

Managing Micro-behaviours Pearn Kandola    https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/sites/human_resources/files/action.pdf

Micro-affirmations and micro-inequities – Mary Rowe https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.edu/dist/0/674/files/2015/12/rowe_microaffirmations-2jhcuc9.pdf

Race Inequality in the Workforce - Georgina Bowyer and Morag Henderson Edited by Douglas White and Lord Simon Woolley Exploring connections between work, ethnicity and mental health - Operation Black Vote, Carnegie Trust UK and Centre for Longitudinal Studies. https://d1ssu070pg2v9i.cloudfront.net/pex/pex_carnegie2021/2020/03/05110242/Race-Inequality-in-the-Workforce-Final.pdf

Speaking of Psychology: The invisibility of white privilege with Brian Lowery, PhD https://www.apa.org/research/action/speaking-of-psychology/white-privilege

‘We weren't checked in on, nobody spoke to us’: an exploratory qualitative analysis of two focus groups on the concerns of ethnic minority NHS staff during COVID-19 https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/12/e053396

What is white privilege? https://psychology.umbc.edu/files/2016/10/White-Privilege_McIntosh-1989.pdf

When Did the Word Negro Become Socially Unacceptable? https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/2010/october.htm

  

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