Race, Racism and the Law: A Summer Reading & Watching List
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)
- Windrush Scandal ExplainedTo get in contact with us to write a review on any of the resources please fill out this form:
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