Dont Touch My Hair
By: Emma Dabiri
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Guardian contributor BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes an essay collection exploring th…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The words we use to describe Afro hair do not relate to its texture and, judged by another's metric, it will always come up lacking. But we do not possess a list of words that reflect the qualities of Afro hair, words that demonstrate its strengths, beauty and versatility."-Emma Dabiri, Dont Touch My Hair
"The words we use to describe Afro hair do not relate to its texture and, judged by another's metric, it will always come up lacking. But we do not possess a list of words that reflect the qualities of Afro hair, words that demonstrate its strengths, beauty and versatility."-Emma Dabiri, Dont Touch My Hair
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1. Black and British: A Forgotten History
By: David Olusoga
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In … read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
- audiobook
2. The Good Immigrant
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? … read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- anti racist
- audiobook
"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
3. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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4. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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- race
- history
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- audiobook
"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
6. River Woman
By: Katherena Vermette
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second coll… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Truth is a seed planted deep If you want to get it you have to dig."-Katherena Vermette, River Woman
7. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
8. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
9. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
- audiobook
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
10. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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- race
- audiobook
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
11. Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
By: Bernardine Evaristo
3.98
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's m… read more
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- race
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Alle pogingen om cultuur terug te brengen tot opvattingen over authenticiteit kunnen alleen het omgekeerde bewerkstelligen en de onderlinge verbondenheid van onze culturen openbaren."-Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
12. I Am Not Your Baby Mother
By: Candice Brathwaite
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience … read more
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- race
- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
- audiobook
13. Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale
By: Sean Driscoll
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Bucking… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. A History of Women in 101 Objects
By: Annabelle Hirsch
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate obje… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Pans and other such objects are the very opposite of monuments. They don't commemorate revolutions or victories on the battlefield; don't allude to great contracts or those moments of upheaval that h…"-Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects
15. I Heard What You Said
By: Jeffrey Boakye
4.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifet… read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Dont Touch My Hair
By: Emma Dabiri
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Guardian contributor BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes an essay collection exploring th… read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- anti racist
- audiobook
"The words we use to describe Afro hair do not relate to its texture and, judged by another's metric, it will always come up lacking. But we do not possess a list of words that reflect the qualities o…"-Emma Dabiri, Dont Touch My Hair
17. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
By: Afua Hirsch
4.32
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain… read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
- audiobook
"Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants."-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
"What makes those with perceived 'English' identities different from others in the UK? One answer is that, unlike Wales, Northern ireland and Scotland, with their devolved legislatures, separate langu…"-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
18. It's Not That Radical
By: Mikaela Loach
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, gre… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
19. Spirit Level
By: Richy Craven
3.94
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Danny Hook is a directionless twenty-something year old fresh out of therapy. Dealing with his disa… read more
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- audiobook
20. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
By: Jim Morris
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Burning my Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman
By: Sharan Dhaliwal
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian w… read more
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- race
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
22. White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
By: Koa Beck
4.25
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
JOURNALIST KOA BECK’S AMBITIOUS HARVARD RESEARCH-BASED DEEP DIVE INTI HOW FEMINISM HAS BEEN COMMODI… read more
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- race
- history
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- audiobook
"In a time of alleged heightened "feminism" women of color and poor women are being left behind, and yet the trappings that uniquely target us, like poverty, incarceration, police brutality, and immig…"-Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
"With many high-earning, public women espousing operating as individuals, "feminism" was reduced to a self-empowerment strategy. A way to get things. A way to get more of the things you thought you de…"-Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
23. The Prosecutor
By: Nazir Afzal
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Nazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
24. Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
By: Johny Pitts
4.32
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A cont… read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
- audiobook
"It's not terrorism when white people plot organised murders in the name of an extreme ideology."-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
"Those unemployed black men I saw loitering all over Europe weren’t inherently lazy, but lost and low on confidence and opportunities, and their crime was that they were visible, unlike the black staf…"-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
"For most black people in Europe, the battle against prejudice is for life, which is why you have to pace yourself to run a marathon instead of exerting all your energy in a spring if you want to surv…"-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
25. We Need New Stories
By: Nesrine Malik
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for… read more
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- race
- history
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- audiobook
26. Edge of Here: Stories From Here to Now
By: Kelechi Okafor
4.17
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
Enter a world very close to our own...One in which technology can allow you to explore an alternate… read more
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- race
- audiobook
27. Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible
By: Yomi Adegoke
4.00
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade ou… read more
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- race
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
28. The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity
By: Naomi Evans
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | … read more
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- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- audiobook
29. Blob: A Love Story
By: Maggie Su
4.44
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'A modern-day Mrs. Caliban, BLOB is a book that looks at identity and desire in profoundly interest… read more
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30. Minorías: Historias de desigualdad y valentía
By: Desirée Bela-Lobedde
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
«Qué pasa cuando, además de ser mujer, se es negra, migrante o asiática, se padece una enfermedad c… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
31. Ponte a punto para el antirracismo
By: Desirée Bela-Lobedde
4.07
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
No basta con no ser hay que ser antirracista ¿Qué es la supremacía y el privilegio blanco? ¿Ex… read more
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