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Citizen - An American Lyric
Paperback,
02/07/2015,
£9.99
£8.99
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2015 and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2015, this book examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, which has impacted the lives of Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Mark Duggan and others.
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
£9.99
£9.00
New work and old favourites from national treasure and one of Britain's most exciting poets, Lemn Sissay
Islamophobia Industry - Second Edition: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims
Paperback,
15/08/2017,
£12.00
£10.80
A journalistic look at the terrifying growth of Islamophobia across the Western world today
Hate U Give
Paperback,
01/03/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
A powerful and brave YA novel about what prejudice looks like in the 21st century.
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
Paperback,
15/09/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
One of Britain's most highly acclaimed Black educators presents the history of Black radicalism, reclaiming it for the twenty-first century.
Children of Blood and Bone
Paperback,
08/03/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
Magic can burn, turn tides, light the darkness and bring back the dead. But magic is gone. So one girl must bring it back in the first in a gripping fantasy trilogy.
White privilege: The myth of a post-racial society
Paperback,
04/04/2018,
£13.99
£12.59
Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Bhopal explores how neoliberal policy-making has increased discrimination faced by those from non-white backgrounds. This important book examines the impact of race on wider issues of inequality and difference in society.
Decolonising the University
Paperback,
20/08/2018,
£16.99
£15.29
Understanding and transforming the universities' colonial foundations.
Black Tudors: The Untold Story
Paperback,
06/09/2018,
£10.99
£5.50
A transformative history - in Tudor times there were Africans living and working in Britain, and they were free
Color Purple
Paperback,
31/08/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with a new introductory letter from Alice Walker.
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Paperback,
31/01/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
The powerful memoir of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter which explores how the movement was born
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Paperback,
07/02/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
Boy At the Back of the Class
Paperback,
10/07/2018,
£7.99
£7.19
Told with heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child's perspective on the refugee crisis, highlighting the importance of friendship and kindness in a world that doesn't always make sense.
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
Paperback,
30/08/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain todayYou're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change.
If All the World Were...
Paperback,
03/01/2019,
£6.99
£6.29
A moving, poetic picture book about the love between a grandfather and child. An ideal book for children who have lost a grandparent.
Washington Black
Paperback,
04/04/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
Escape is only the beginning ... Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is an extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again.
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Paperback,
21/03/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
The Sunday Times bestseller on race and class in the UK, from the MOBO award-winning musician Akala
American Marriage
Paperback,
07/03/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
The stunning and heart-breaking New York Times bestseller
My Name Is Why
Hardback,
26/04/2019,
£16.99
£9.99
A memoir with a message - about growing up in care and finding hope, determination and creativity - from British poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay
Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present
Hardback,
24/01/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
This book brings together 52 icons of colour from the past and present in a celebration of achievement.
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Hardback,
03/10/2019,
£18.99
£17.09
When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. `You have some place else to go?' But now, seventy years after the arrival of ships such as the Windrush, this generation of pioneers are ready to tell their stories.
Welcome to Our World: A Celebration of Children Everywhere!
Hardback,
07/06/2018,
£12.99
£11.69
In this beautifully illustrated book, young children can learn all about what people in other countries eat, wear and play, and how they speak and celebrate. This delightful book teaches us that despite different languages, customs andtraditions, it really is a small world, after all.
Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire
Hardback,
09/03/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. -- .
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Paperback,
26/09/2019,
£8.99
£6.99
My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...
Beloved
Hardback,
03/12/2019,
£14.99
£13.49
A stunning gift package of prize-winning Beloved to commemorate Toni Morrison.'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours ... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all' Margaret Atwood, New York Times'An American masterpiece' A.S.
Nickel Boys
Hardback,
01/08/2019,
£16.99
£15.29
A devastating novel - based on true events - of a hellish American reform school, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad.
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work
Paperback,
06/01/2020,
£8.99
£8.09
Learn about identities, histories, and anti-racism work in 20 carefully laid out chapters.
Muhammad Ali
Hardback,
04/02/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
Part of the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Muhammad Ali tells the inspiring story of 'the greatest' boxer of all time.
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Paperback,
15/03/2020,
£10.99
£9.89
Beginning with the late Bronze Age and moving through to the present day, this is the definitive history of Palestine and its people.
Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X
Paperback,
20/03/2020,
£18.99
£17.09
The first book on the political philosophy of this radical hero
Communities of Activism: Black women, higher education and the politics of representation
Paperback,
15/05/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
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