Being Black in Britain

Adi, Hakim (ed). Black British History: New Perspectives. London: Zed Books, 2019.

Alexander, Claire. “‘The Empire Strikes Back’: 30 Years On”. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37. 10 (2014): 1784–1792.

Back, Les et al. “The Return of Assimilationism: Race, Multiculturalism and New Labour.” Sociological Research Online, 7.2 (2002): 95-105.

Back, Les et al. “New Labour’s White Heart: Politics, Multiculturalism and the Return of Assimilation.” Political Quarterly, 73.4 (2002): 445-454.

Bland, Benjamin. “‘Publish and Be Damned?’ Race, Crisis, and the Press in England during the Long, Hot Summer of 1976”. Immigrants & Minorities, 37.3 (2019): 163-183.

Bourne, Stephen. Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and The Great War. Stroud: The History Press, 2014.

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS). The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in ‘70s Britain. London: Hutchinson, 1982.

Chater, Kathleen. Untold Histories: Black People in England and Wales During the Period of the British Slave trade, c. 1660-1807. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.

Costello, Ray. Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015.

France-Williams, A.D.A. Ghost Ship: Institutional Racism and the Church of England. SCM Press. 2020.

Fryer, Peter. Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (1984), new edition with an introduction by Paul Gilroy. London: Pluto Press, 2010.

Gerzina, Gretchen. Black England: Life Before Emancipation. London: Allison & Busby, 1999.

Gilroy, Paul. There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation. London: Routledge, 1987.

Hall, Catherine and McClelland, Keith (eds). Race, Nation and Empire: Making Histories, 1750 to the Present. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.

Hall, Stuart. “From Scarman to Lawrence”. History Workshop Journal, 48.1 (Autumn 1999): 187-97.

Hall, Stuart. “The Lessons of Lord Scarman”. Critical Social Policy, 2.5 (1982): 66-72.

Jones, Ben. “Slum Clearance, Privatization and Residualization: the Practices and Politics of Council Housing in Mid-twentieth-century England”. Modern British History, 21.4 (December 2010): 510–539.

Alternative link via UEA Digital Repository.

Keith, Michael. Race, Riots and Policing: Lore and Disorder in a Multi-Racist Society. London: UCL Press, 1993.

Little, Kenneth. Negroes in Britain: A Study of Racial Relations in English Society. London: Hunt, Barnard and Co., 1947.

Alternative link via Internet Archive.

Llwyd, Alan. Cymru Ddu/Black Wales: A History of Black Welsh People. Hughes/Butetown History and Arts Centre. 2005.

Lorimer, Douglas A. Colour, Class, and the Victorians: English Attitudes to the Negro in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York: Holmes and Meier. 1978.

Alternative link via Internet Archive.

Lotz, Rainer E. and Pegg, Ian (eds). Under the Imperial Carpet: Essays in Black History 1780-1950. Crawley: Rabbit Press 1986.

Marshall, P.J. and William, Glyn. The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Alternative link via the Internet Archive.

Miles, Robert and Phizacklea, Annie. White Man’s Country: Racism in British Politics. London/Sydney: Pluto Press, 1984.

Olusoga, David. Black and British: A Forgotten History. London: Picador, 2021.

Perry, Kennetta Hammond. London is the Place For Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Alternative link via Internet Archive.

Pilkington, Andrew. “The Interacting Dynamics of Institutional Racism in Higher Education”. Race Ethnicity and Education, 16.2 (2013): 225-245.

Alternative link via Education Resources Information Center.

Ramdin, Ron. The Making of The Black Working Class in Britain. Aldershot: Wildwood House Limited, 1987.

Salesa, Damon Ieremia. Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2011.

Schofield, Camilla and Jones, Ben. “‘Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It’: Notting Hill and the Reconstruction of ‘Race’ in Britain after 1958”. Journal of British Studies, 58.1 (January 2019): 142–173.

Shyllon, Folarin. Black People in Britain 1555-1833. London: Oxford University Press, for the Institute of Race Relations, 1977.

Sian, Katy. Navigating Institutional Racism in British Universities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Small, Stephen and Solomos, John. “Race, Immigration and Politics in Britain: Changing Policy Agendas and Conceptual Paradigms 1940s–2000s”. International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Aug 2006): 235-257.

Solomos, John. Black Youth, Racism and the State: The Politics of Ideology and Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Solomos, John. Race and Racism in Britain, 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Souhami, Anna. “Institutional racism and police reform: an empirical critique”. Policing and Society, 24.1 (2014): 1-21.

Tabili, Laura. “The Construction of Racial Difference in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, 1925” Journal of British Studies, 33.1 (January 1994): 54-98.

Tabili, Laura. "We ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain. Cornell: University Press, 1994.

Virdee, Satnam and McGeever, Brendan. “Racism, Crisis, Brexit”. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41.10 (2018): 1802-1819.

Alternative link via University of Glasgow.

Wamsley, Anne. The Caribbean Artists Movement 1966-1972: A Literary & Cultural History. London: New Beacon Books, 1992.

Waters, Chris. “‘Dark Strangers’ in Our Midst: Discourses of Race and Nation in Britain, 1947-1963”. Journal of British Studies, 36.2 (1997): 207-238.

Alternative link via University of Utah and UEL Research Repository.

Webb, Jack Daniel. Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847-1915. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.

Wheeler, Roxann. The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Yuval-Davis, Nira. “Institutional Racism, Cultural Diversity and Citizenship: Some Reflections on Reading the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report.” Sociological Research Online, 4.1 (1999), 115-121.

African and/ or American

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Penguin Books, 1963.

Baldwin, James. “A Report from Occupied Territory”. The Nation (1966; reprinted 1996).

Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2016.

Cadogan, Garnette. “Walking While Black: Garnette Cadogan on the Realities of Being Black in America” Lit Hub, (8 July 2016).

Cargle, Rachel. “When Feminism Is White Supremacy in Heels”. Bazaar, 16 August 2018.

Coates, Rodney D. Covert Racism: Theories, Institutions, and Experiences. Netherlands: Brill, 2011.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. The Text Publishing Company: 2015.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations”. The Atlantic (June 2014).

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “There Is No Post-Racial America”. The Atlantic (July/ August 2015).

Daniel, Pete. Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Davis, Angela. “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex”. Colorlines (10 September 1998).

Davis, Mike. “Hell Factories in the Field.” The Nation, 20 February, 1995.

Davis, Seth. “The Thirteenth Amendment and Self-Determination,” Cornell Law Review Online 104, (2018-2019): 88-113.

Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1903.

Alternate link via Google Books.

Dudziak, Mary. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Ferguson, Anne Arnett. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.

Gilmore, Amir A., and Pamela J. Bettis. “Antiblackness and the Adultification of Black Children in a U.S. Prison Nation.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, 2021.

Giroux, Henry, ‘Reading Hurricane Katrina: Race, Class, and the Biopolitics of Disposability’. College Literature, 33.3 (2006): 171–196.

Hannah-Jones, Nicole. “The Idea of America”. The New York Times Magazine (14 August 2019).

Hartman, Saidya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Hunt, Margaret. “Racism, Imperialism, and the Traveler’s Gaze in Eighteenth-Century England”. The Journal of British Studies, 32.4 (1993): 333-357.

Jennings, Willie James. After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging. SPCK. 2020.

Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

Alternate link via Internet Archive.

Kendi, Ibram X. “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” The Atlantic (12 May 2020).

Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. London:‎ Bodley Head, 2017.

Kendi, Ibram X and Reynolds, Jason. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020.

Kendi, Ibram X and Gill, Joel Christian. Stamped From The Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: Ten Speed Graphic, 2023.

King, Desmond S., and Smith, Rogers M. “THE LAST STAND? Shelby County v. Holder, White Political Power, and America’s Racial Policy Alliances.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 13.1 (2016): 25–44.

Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race. Basic Books, 2018.

Rankine, Claudia. “‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’; on Racial Violence”. The New York Times, 22 June 2015.

Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright, 2017.

Tulsa Race Riot: A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. 28 February 2001.

Vagins, Deborah, and Jesselyn McCurdy. “Cracks in the System: 20 Years of the Unjust Federal Crack Cocaine Law.” American Civil Liberties Union, 26 October 2006.

Waldman, Ayelet and Chabon, Michael. Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases. Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster: 2020.

Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Vintage, 2008.

West, Cornel. Race Matters. Penguin Books: 1993.

Wilkerson, Isobel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. New York: Random House, 2010.

Yancy, George and Jones, Janine (eds). Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012.

Alternate link via Internet Archive.