This list of resources collates just some of the works in our library collections that you might find helpful in learning about and reflecting on race, racism and protest.

About the reading list

The reading list was created by Bath Spa Library in collaboration with the Psychology and Sociology departments. We've included fiction and non-fiction, as well as links to other types of resources including some Box of Broadcast playlists and external sites.

The Students' Union have also shared a  including streaming suggestions and Instagram accounts to follow.

We encourage you to talk about this with your friends and family, and please consider sharing recommendations with them so that the conversation can go further.

Bath Spa Library Collections

Ebooks

  •  - Jonathan Kahn, 2018   
  •  - Reni Eddo-Lodge, 2018  
  •  - Akwaeke Emezi, 2018
  •  - Audre Lorde,  1984 
  •  - Bell Hooks, 1981
  •  - Michelle Obama, 2018
  •  - Kehinde Andrews, 2018
  •  - Michelle Alexander, 2010
  •  - Ruha Benjamin, 2019
  •  - 2018  
  •  - Paul Outka, 2008
  •  - Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman, 2018  
  •  - George Yancy, 2017
  •  - Lisa Amanda Palmer and Kehinde Andrews, 2016  
  •  - edited by Nathan Hall,  John Grieve and Stephen P. Savage, 2009
  •  - Ibram X. Kendi, 2017
  •  - W.E.B Du Bois, 1903
  •  - David Gillborn, 2008
  •  - edited by Sabrina Mahfouz, 2017
  •  - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014 
  •  - Christa Kuljian, 2016
  •  - Emma Dabiri, 2019
  •  - Shashi Tharoor, 2018
  •  - Paul Gilroy, 2002
  •  - Angela Y. Davis, 2016
  • - Edited by Nikesh Shukla, 2016
  •  - Michelle Obama, 2018
  •  - June Sarpong, 2019
  • - Yomi Adegoke  and Elizabeth Uviebinene虂, 2019 
  •  - Robin Diangelo, 2019
  •  - edited by Jesmyn Ward
  •  - Afua Hirsch, 2018 
  •  - Rodney Walter, 1972
  •  - Barack Obama, 1995
  •  - Charlotte Chadderton, 2018
  •  - Saeed Jones, 2019  
  •  - Tressie McMillan Cottom, 2018
  •  - Hanif Abdurraqib, 2019  
  •  -Lorna Goodison, 2018
  •  - Mikki Kendall, 2020
  •  - Johnny Pitts, 2019
  •  - Edward W. Said, 1993   
  • -  edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin, 2017 
  •  - Arundhati Roy, 2019  
  •  - Toni Morrison, 2019  
  •  - Lemn Sissay, 2019 
  •  - Sarah Whitfield, 2019 
  •  - Sharrell D. Luckett with Tia M. Shaffer, 2016 

Print only

  •  - Akala, 2019
  •  - Ijeoma Olou, 2018 
  •  - edited by Glory Edim, 2019 
  •  - Maya Angelou, 1984 
  •  - Ibram X. Kendi, 2019 
  •  - Derek Owusu, 2019 
  •  - Rebecca Skloot, 2019 
  •  - Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015 
  •  - Adam Rutherford, 2020 
  •  - Olaudah Equiano, 1789 (also free version on Google Books)
  •  - Kathryn Yusoff, 2018
  •  - Namita Chakrabarty, Lorna Roberts and John Preston, 2014 
  •  - Nelson Mandela, 1995
  •  - Malcolm X and Alex Haley, 1965
  •  - Chelsea Kwakye and O蹋re蹋 Ogunbiyi

Ebooks

  •  - Malorie Blackman, 2006
  •  - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014
  •  - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2006
  •  - Raymond Antrobus, 2018
  •  - Chinua Achebe, 1958
  •  - Toni Morrison, 1997
  •  - Tayari Jones, 2018
  • - Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
  •  - Ralph Ellison, 1952
  •  - Tracy K Smith, 2018
  •  - Yaa Gyasi, 2017
  •  - Angie Thomas, 2017
  •  - Kayo Chingonyi, 2017
  •  - Danez Smith, 2018
  •  - Kiley Reid, 2020
  •  - Esi Edugyan, 2018
  •  - Bernardine Evaristo, 2019
  •  - Kamila Shamsie, 2017
  •  - Jay Bernard, 2019
  •  - Paul Beatty, 2016
  •  - Marlon James, 2009
  •  - Percival Everett, 2020
  •  - James Baldwin, 1954 
  •  - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, 2018
  •  - Jesmyn Ward, 2017 
  •  - Tommy Orange, 2018 
  •  - Yrsa Daley-Ward, 2018 

Print only

  •  - Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 
  •  - Candice Carty-Williams, 2019  
  •  - Colson Whitehead, 2017
  •  - Derek Owusu, 2019 
  •  - Zadie Smith, 2001 
  •  - Okechukwu Nzelu, 2019 

Ebooks

  • - Greta Thurnberg, 2019 
  •  - Simon Peplow, 2019 
  •  - Zeynep Tufekci, 2017 
  •  - Bruce Dancis, 2014 
  •  - Avram Finkelstein, 2018  
  •  - Manuel Castells, 2015 
  •  - edited by Clare Farrell, 2019  
  •  - Matthew Bolton, 2017  
  •  -  Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele, 2018 

Print only 

  •  - Sunil Yapa, 2016  
  • , 2018 

Journals

  • The Journal
  • SAGE Resources on
  • Springer Resources on

Journal articles

  • Arday, J. (2018). . Whiteness and Education 3(2): 141-161.
  • Arday, J. (2018). . Social Sciences 7(10): 196.
  • Arday, J. (2018). . Management in Education 32(4): 192-200.
  • Bonilla-Silva, E. (2012) . Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(2): 173-194.
  • Chadderton, C. (2012) .  Ethnography and Education 7:3, pp. 363-380.
  • Chadderton, C. & Wischmann, A. (2014) , Journal of Vocational Education & Training 66:3, pp.330-347.
  • Chadderton, C. and Edmonds, C. (2015)  Journal of Vocational Education and Training 67:2, pp. 136-152.
  • Garner, S. (2006) , Sociology, 40: 257-75.
  • Jones, J. M., & Dovidio, J. F. (2018). . Social Issues and Policy Review, 12(1), 7-56. 
  • Kraus, M. W., & Torrez, B. (2020). . Current opinion in psychology, 33, 86-90. 
  • Phillips, L. T., & Lowery, B. S. (2018). . Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(3), 156-162. 
  • Richeson, J. A., & Sommers, S. R. (2016). . Annual review of psychology, 67, 439-463.
  • Salter, P. S., Adams, G., & Perez, M. J. (2018). . Current directions in psychological science, 27(3), 150-155.
  • Singh, G. (2018) , Race Ethnicity and Education, 21:4, 555-563 
  • Trawalter, S., Bart-Plange, D. J., & Hoffman, K. M. (2020). . Current opinion in psychology, 32, 47-51.
  • Wallace, S., Nazroo, J., & B茅cares, L. (2016). . American Journal of Public Health, 106(7), 1294-1300.
  • Williams, M. T. (2019). . New ideas in Psychology, 55, 58-67. 

Box of Broadcast playlists and episodes

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Databases

  • Two open-access databases exploring slavery: and

External resources

  • The Guardian Podcast 
  • (TW: Racist language and disturbing content) 
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  • Violet Vincent has put together  right now on instagram. It is being constantly updated. She is an arts student upset with the amount of white silence amongst her peers during this crisis.
  •  is a podcast for working women, hosted by Women Who founder Otegha Uwagba.
  • (Creative Review article) 
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  • : 鈥淏lack and Brown students and their intersecting identities carry both an invisible and visible workload that many of our cis, white and white passing peers do not share.
  • : 鈥淧romoting diversity rather than substantive structural change will not create equal opportunity and equal outcomes.鈥�
  • . 鈥淚n the U.S., African Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white people.鈥�
  • . 鈥淭he protests will eventually end. But state-sanctioned violence against black Americans won鈥檛鈥�
  • 鈥淓ventually doctors will develop a coronavirus vaccine, but black people will continue to wait for a cure for racism.鈥� 
  • : 鈥淩edirect it to emergency response programs that don鈥檛 kill black people.
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  • (in the UK)
  •  - a guide collated by the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team at the University of Bath.