Keele Law School Colleagues have put together this : Race, Racism and the Law: A Summer Reading & Watching List which can be accessed on a google doc here or on a blog post below.

Thank you for these resources from Dr Ezgi Taşcıoğlu , Keele Law School 2nd & 3rd year students Mellisa Ssanyu, Ruth Arhin and Yvette Mwesigye, Professor Alex Sharpe, Professor Alison Brammer, Dr Awol Allo, Dr Fabienne Emmerich, Felicity Adams, Dr Forough Ramezankhah, Hannah Gibbons-Jones, Dr Jane Krishnadas, Dr John Cotter, Dr Mario Prost, Rachel Treloar, Dr Senthorun Raj, Dr Sotirios Santatzoglou, Dr Stella Coyle & Dr Szilard Gaspar-Szilagyi.

If you would like to write a review of any of the resources you use, like how accessible you found it and what you learned there is a contact form at the bottom of this post.

Race, Racism and the Law: A Summer Reading & Watching List

Books

• Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
• Talkin’ Up To The White Woman: Indigenous Women And Feminism by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
• Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
• The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (Free E-book on Verso until 17th June)
• Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis de Vaux
• The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
• Me Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism (Chapter 3) by Alison Phipps
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons and Torture by Angela Davis
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
• Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
• The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
• Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control: Subject to Examination by Evan Smith and Marinella Marmo
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V. Carby
• How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar and Alana Yu-Ian Price (Free E-book on Haymarket until 12th June)
• Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain by Kieran Connell
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot (Chapter 3: An Unthinkable History)
• Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany

• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
• Race, Law, Resistance by Patricia Tuitt
• The Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia J. Williams
• When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
• Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer
• Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal
• Why I am No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• 12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
• Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order by Stuart Hall
• Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
• Wealth, Poverty, and Politics by Thomas Sowell
• Love by Toni Morrison
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Wesley Lowery
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith

University Minnesota Press open access collection: Reading for Racial Justice (all free until August 31, 2020)

Documentaries

• 13th (directed by Ava DuVernay, Netflix)
• Crime + Punishment (directed by Stephen Maing)
• Eyes On The Prize (Blackside)
• I Am Not Your Negro (directed by Raoul Peck)
• Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story (Paramount)
• Shame In The Game: Racism In Football (BBC)
• Slavery By Another Name (PBS)
• Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation (BBC)
• Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (available on YouTube)
• The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files (BBC, currently available on iPlayer)

Films & Series

• 12 Years A Slave (directed by Steve McQueen)
• Andrea Levy’s Small Island (to be broadcast by NT Live via YouTube, from 7pm on Thursday 18 June for one week)
• Detroit (directed by Kathryn Bigelow)
• Get Out (directed by Jordan Peele)
• Just Mercy (directed by Destin Daniel Cretton)
• La Haine (directed by Mathieu Kassovitz)
• Malcolm X (directed by Spike Lee)
• Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker (Netflix)
• Selma (directed by Ava DuVernay)
• Sitting in Limbo (BBC, currently available on iPlayer)
• The Hate You Give (directed by George Tillman Jr.)
• When They See Us (directed by Ava DuVernay, Netflix)

Free Films on Black Lives provided by BFI

Podcasts

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (available via Apple Podcasts and Spotify)
• The “1619” audio series

Talks

• In Conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition via Haymarket Books YouTube
• The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw via TED Talks

Web Resources

• Black British History (The National Archives)
• The 1619 Project
• The abolition of slavery: a Staffordshire perspective
• The Reflections of Paul Olubayo, former Keele Law Student and a Keele Community Legal Companion
• The Washington State Supreme Court’s Letter to Members of the Judiciary and the Legal Community (June 4, 2020)
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