Anti racism - International Books
These books have a focus on the way racism and white supremacy appear in systems and our lives, from an international perspective. To purchase some of these books and see more, check out the Women's Bookshop.
By Glenn E. Singleton
A field guide for achieving equity in schools. Examining the achievement gap in education through the prism of race, the authors explain the need for candid, courageous conversations about race in order to understand why performance inequity persists.
By Layla F. Saad
A powerful 28 day workbook designed to help white readers to understand and dismantle their privilege and fragility around race. Highly recommended! You can buy the book or download on Audible. You can read the Stuff review, or download a free excerpt.
Edited by Bettina Bergo and Tracey Nicholls
Who is white, and why should we care? This volume gathers together some of the most influential scholars of privilege and marginalisation in philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, literature, and history to examine the idea of whiteness.
By Ijeoma Oluo
Guides readers of all races through addressing such as issues as intersectionality, affirmative action, "model minorities", privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word, trying to create honest conversations about racism.
By Reni Eddo-Lodge
A powerful and provocative argument on the role that race and racism play in modern Britain, by award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race in Britain.
By Ibram X. Kendi
"The opposite of racism isn't not racism, it's anti-racism." This book punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding, from arguments about what race is and whether racial differences exist to the complications that arise when race intersects with ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.
By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
This book documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book makes clear that color blind racism is as insidious now as ever.
By Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule, it analyses the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom.
By Robin DiAngelo
Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racsim: Exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.