Racism and racial discrimination Books

Book Synopsis''Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose'' The New York Times Book Review We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nationJames Baldwin''s impassioned plea to ''end the racial nightmare'' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal ''letters'', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin''s early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.''A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers'' Barack Obama''Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy'' Sunday Times''The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work'' GuardianTrade ReviewRiveting . . . part of Baldwin's enduring power is that he was not a political thinker. He was interested in the soul's dark spaces much more than in the body politic. -- Colm Toibin * Telegraph *The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work * Guardian *Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle . . . all presented in searing, brilliant prose * The New York Times Book Review *Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy * Sunday Times *A true prophet . . . his thought and its utterance are nothing less than majestical -- Mario Puzo * The New York Times *

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Book SynopsisFrom the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflictsIn these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and prison abolitionism for today''s struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyses today''s struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that ''Freedom is a constant struggle.''Trade ReviewAngela Davis new book made me think of what Dear Nelson Mandela kept reminding us, that we must be willing to embrace that long walk to freedom. Understanding what it takes to really be free, to have no fear, is the first and most important step one has to make before undertaking this journey. Angela is the living proof that this arduous challenge can also be an exhilarating and beautiful one -- Archbishop Desmond TutuIncisive, urgent, and comprehensive . . . These essays take us back in history to the founders of revolutionary and anti-racist struggle, but they also take us toward the possibility of ongoing intersectional solidarity and struggle. Angela Davis gathers in her lucid words our luminous history and the most promising future of freedom -- Judith ButlerWhether you've grown up with the courage and conscience of Angela Davis, or are discovering her for the first time, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle is a small book that will be a huge help in daily life and action . . . [Davis] exposes facts and makes connections, but also leads in the most important way by example -- Gloria Steinem

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Book SynopsisPersonal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it''Thoughtful and provocative... It is a must-read'' Roxane Gay''A book to make you stop and think'' Mishal Husain''This book is going to light fires everywhere, so if you are prone to combust, get right the hell out of the way'' Lit HubMost of us believe that feminism is a force for good. In the past 200 years, it has paved the way for women to advance economically, increasing their safety and their power in society, and advocating for their needs and experiences. But not for all women.If you are poor, if you are an immigrant to the West or (even worse) don''t live here at all, and above all if your skin is not white, the door to mainstream feminism has been shut against you from day one. This is not oversight or an accident. It is an active and sustained strategy to advance white women at the expense of everyone else. And what makes this strategy especially dangerous - and especially effective - is that most white people have no idea they are participating in it.Attorney and activist Rafia Zakaria shines a spotlight on this urgent issue, revealing the fingerprints of white supremacy all over the feminist movement: from early suffragette campaigns right up to the divided and profoundly unequal world we inherit today. And she issues a powerful call to every reader to join her in building a new kind of feminism, lighting the path to emancipation for all.Trade ReviewBracing and compassionate... Make room beside Audre Lorde and Angela Davis on your shelves * Chicago Review of Books *A thoughtful and provocative collection calling for a sharper feminism... It is a must-read -- Roxane GayAgainst White Feminism is the book I have been waiting for. This landmark work will forever change how we view the feminist movement and our place in it -- Sonia Faleiro, author of 'The Good Girls'What does feminism look like when it centers on Black and Brown women? And when it doesn't hold hands with colonialism? Rafia Zakaria makes a clear case for intersectional feminism that puts power in a different place * Washington Post *Zakaria is a warm-hearted and sharp-eyed writer who brings compassion, intelligence and a steady drumbeat of change to redefining feminism... This book is going to light fires everywhere, so if you are prone to combust, get right the hell out of the way * Lit Hub - Most Anticipated Books of 2021 *A brilliant, bracing, and deeply necessary text. Showing how feminism had systematically centred white women's voices, and excluded others', this is a polemic that couldn't be more urgent in improving feminism as a movement -- Kate Manne, author of 'Down Girl'Lucid and persuasive... Tackling complex philosophical ideas with clarity and insight, Zakaria builds an impeccable case for the need to rebuild feminism from the ground up. Readers will want to heed this clarion call for change * Publishers Weekly *In this searing takedown, Rafia Zakaria expertly puts into words what so many women of colour feel and endure. An exhilarating and brilliantly researched read that doubles up as a long overdue call to action. Unputdownable, required reading for people of all genders, generations and races -- Zahra Hankir, editor of 'Our Women on the Ground'Complacent, well-intentioned feminism isn't good enough... The heart of what this book demands - a feminism that is less self-satisfied and secure in its power, more curious about the differences in women's experiences, and more generous and expansive in its reach - is worth fighting for * Mythili G. Rao, Washington Post *Zakaria eloquently reveals the smug assumptions behind white western feminism [and] demonstrates quite brilliantly the hypocrisy of middle and upper class white feminists who conveniently ignore and exploit the power advantages traceable to centuries of imperialism. This book is a wake-up call for white feminists -- Remi Adekoya, author of 'Biracial Britain'An exploration of the divisive effects of whiteness on feminism and a strong argument for transforming long-standing power structures... Demanding anti-capitalist empowerment, political solidarity, and intersectional redistributive change, the author eviscerates white-centred feminism, the tokenization of women of colour, the aid industrial complex, and more... A worthy contribution to feminist and activist studies * Kirkus *A total reconstruction of feminism... Her powerful exploration of the movement's past, which has traditionally been shaped by white women, aims to inform readers, while also illustrating why it is past time to centre Black and brown voices as feminism moves forward * Pop Sugar *Razor-sharp [and] detailed analysis... A true feminist will remain engaged in the feminist agenda while also rejecting white feminism * Litro Magazine *Zakaria lays out the case for the harm caused by the movement escaping acknowledgment of its privilege and how it monopolizes networks and opportunities, shutting out women of colour and nonbinary individuals... A reckoning and a wake-up call * Boston.com *Against White Feminism is full of harsh, painful truths about how one kind of feminism can dominate and silence woman outside of its focus. Strong and powerfully persuasive, it accords with much that I have experienced. It's a fantastic book -- Nadifa Mohamed, author of 'The Fortune Men'Ambitious, elegant and brilliantly argued... My head never stopped nodding in agreement. Zakaria doesn't just tell us that white supremacy must be excised from feminism: she shows us how it harms Black and brown women and offers a different politics and system of relations in its place. I am grateful to Zakaria for her inventory of white feminism's many problems, including hypocrisy, condescension and cowardice. I am grateful to her for this book -- Myriam Gurba, author of 'Mean'[A] necessary read for anyone interested in gender equality * Book Riot *[A] societal paradigm-buster... * Daily Kos *Glued to the pages, I read the book in one sitting. Want to think seriously about the exquisite power of "personal is political"? Want to think carefully about privilege - and White privilege? This is your book... [Against White Feminism is] a call to address our complicity in structures of power -- Ruby Lal, 'Arts ATL'Zakaria effectively shows that white feminists often focus on bringing feminism and enlightenment to marginalized people instead of examining the ways in which these marginalized people already practice feminism within their own lives and experiences... Her examination of current examples from politics and pop culture furnishes crucial evidence of the continued colonization of feminism by white women * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisHow did racism creep into the algorithms that govern our daily lives, from banking and shopping, to job applications? Connecting the legacy of enlightenment racism to forms of discrimination in modern day algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, this volume examines what data feeds into AI technology - and how this data will shape the future of humanity. Delving into the narratives enveloping the development of AI systems, with a particular emphasis on tech-giants and the ideas of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam explains how and why technology aids and abets various forms of extremism, entrenches social hierarchies and discriminatory boundaries and how this will impact international security and human rights in the future.Trade ReviewWritten with intellectual flair, this is a stimulating if sobering assessment of what we can expect in a world increasingly dominated by biased AI. A must-read to understand the paradigm shift we are already experiencing, and better anticipate the all too human flaws in the embedded tech so rapidly accumulating in our techno-societies. * Roxane Farmanfarmaian, University of Cambridge, UK *A fascinating work on the age of artificial intelligence, surveillance, and algorithmic regimes. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam asks compelling questions regarding our dice-throw with the virtual, the digital, and the simulated, taking us into those timescapes of the near-beyond where we will have to confront dire questions of our own post-humanism. This work unveils with exceptional precision both the potentiality for catastrophic violence beneath the surface of such epochal technologies yet also an escape-route into its more boundless figurations. * Jason Mohaghegh, Babson College, USA *A cutting-edge piece of work illustrating how we can transform our psychology and change values within an AI-controlled system in the age of post-human society. * Hisae Nakanishi, Doshisha University, Japan *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Beyond Human Robots Chapter 2: The Matrix Decoded Chapter 3: Capital Punishment Chapter 4: Techno-Imperialism Chapter 5: Death-Techniques Conclusion: Decolonial AI - A Manifesto

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Book SynopsisFrom Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today.You're British.Your parents are British.Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.So why do people keep asking where you're from?We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change.'The book for our divided and dangerous times'David OlusogaTrade ReviewBrit(ish) is a wonderful, important, courageous book, and it could not be more timely: a vital and necessary point of reference for our troubled age in a country that seems to have lost its bearings. It’s about identity and belonging in 21st-century Britain: intimate and troubling; forensic but warm, funny and wise. -- Philippe SandsBrit(ish) brings together a thoughtful, intelligent, accessible, informative investigation on Britain as a nation not only in the midst of an identity crisis but in denial of what it has been and still is. -- Dolly AldertonMemoir, social analysis and an incisively argued challenge to unconscious biases: this is a truly stunning book on racial identity by a remarkable woman. -- Helena Kennedy[A] bracing and brilliant exploration of national identity … Through her often intensely personal investigations, she exposes the everyday racism that plagues British society, caused by our awkward, troubled relationship to our history, arguing that liberal attempts to be colour-blind have caused more problems than they have solved. A book everyone should read: especially comfy, white, middle-class liberals. -- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller, Editor's Choice *This is less a polemic about the past than an attempt to illuminate the problems of the present. Hirsch is exacting in her observations of how this history manifests itself today... This is a fierce, thought-provoking and fervent take on the most urgent questions facing us today. -- Diana Evans * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisFifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that is starkly different from her own – yet one which would have been all too familiar to her ancestors. Bewitched by a pair of green eyes and haunted by echoes, her life begins to mirror those of girls who have gone before her. Within Noemi’s lament is also the herstory of Mauritius; the story of women who have resisted arrest, of teachers who care for their poorest pupils and encourage them to challenge traditional narratives, of a flawed Paradise undergoing slow but unstoppable change. In Riambel, Priya Hein invites us to protest, to rail against longstanding structures of class and ethnicity. She shows us a world of natural enchantment contrasted with violence and the abuse of power. This seemingly simple tale of servitude, seduction and abandonment blisters with a fierce sense of injustice.Trade Review‘Not only am I finding the book really fascinating but I’m getting through it really quickly as I’m compelled to turn the pages!’ https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpjzZVoD0Y/?hl=en ‘4 stars’ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7tYSoLqSr/?hl=en -- @zukythebookbum * Instagram *‘I absolutely flew through it. The short chapters ignite the pace, delivering punch after punch and I found myself mesmerised by Priya’s fierce yet beautiful writing. This is one you won’t want to miss.’ https://www.instagram.com/p/CkApRfnrcvl/?hl=en -- @adleilareads * Instagram *‘The premise of this novel feels incredibly timely’ https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpkEiNo0pi/?hl=en -- @between2books_ * Instagram *The Selection for the 2022 Literary Season ‘A punchy novel that arouses indignation’ https://librairie-quartierlatin.fr/2022/09/10/la-selection-de-la-rentree-litteraire-2022/ * Quartier Latin *Paradise, Lost: Priya Hein’s Riambel "In the span of a mere 160 pages, this extraordinary debut packs rare insight into the trauma and deference seeded by the long reign of capitalism and the white man’s whims." https://www.cardiffreview.com/review/paradise-lost-priya-heins-riambel/ -- Vartika Rastogi * The Cardiff Review *Priya Hein: ‘Laughing loudly’ at Riambel https://www.lexpress.mu/article/413921/priya-hein-rire-en-belle-riambel?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1664170894-1 -- Aline Groeme-Harmon * L’Express *61 Anticipated African Books of 2023 https://brittlepaper.com/2023/01/61-anticipated-african-books-of-2023/ -- Alesia Alexander * Brittle Paper *Isele Magazine’s Most Anticipated African Books of 2023 https://iselemagazine.com/2023/01/13/isele-magazines-most-anticipated-african-books-of-2023/ * Isele Magazine *Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023 https://msmagazine.com/2023/01/25/anticipated-feminist-books-2023/ -- Karla J. Strand * Ms. Magazine *'a vivid, sensory book’ https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2023/02/24/browser-how-the-head-of-mi6-tried-to-derail-charles-haugheys-career/ -- Ruth McKee * The Irish Times *'Riambel by Priya Hein: a sensual and deceptively simple evocation of generational slavery’ https://lucywritersplatform.com/2023/03/07/riambel-by-priya-hein-a-sensual-and-deceptively-simple-evocation-of-generational-slavery/ -- Laetitia Erskine * Lucy Writers *Shame and Violence: How a history of slavery continues to dictate Mauritian lives https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/riambel-priya-hein-book-review-yagnishsing-dawoor/ -- Yagnishing Dawoor * TLS *

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Book Synopsis''A work of exhilarating scope and relevance ... What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body'' Naomi Klein''Health is not something we can attain as individuals, for ourselves, hermetically sealed off from the world around us. An injury to one is an injury to all.''Our bodies, societies and planet are inflamed. In this boldly original book, renowned political economist Raj Patel teams up with physician Rupa Marya to illuminate the hidden relationships between human health and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. In doing so, they offer a radical new cure: the deep medicine of decolonization.Journeying through the human body - our digestive, endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, immune, and nervous systems - Marya and Patel show how inflammation is connected not just to the food that we eat, the air that we breathe and access to healthcare, but is also linked to the traumatic events we experience and the very model of health that doctors practice: one which takes things apart, rather than seeking to bring ideas and lived experiences together.Combining the latest scholarship on globalization and biology with the stories of patients in marginalized communities and the wisdom of Indigenous groups, Inflamed points the way toward a medicine that heals what has been divided and has the potential to transform not only our bodies but the world.Trade ReviewA work of exhilarating scope and relevance to this infected moment in the body politic. Inflamed mixes medicine, argument, and metaphor into a post-pandemic poultice: reading it is the first step in the deep medicine it prescribes. What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body. -- Naomi Klein * author of On Fire *Provocative and thought provoking. . . a reckoning with modern medicine . . . At each physiological juncture, the co-authors relate the malfunctions of human biology to the inadequacies of our political and economic systems -- Andrew Zaleski * GQ *A compelling book on the social and environmental roots of our poor health... the writers combine their respective expertise to analyse the workings of these cells and organs, and to interrogate how they have been disrupted by our modern constructs of capitalism, colonialism, extractivism and individualism, amongst others -- Rachel Andrews * Irish Times *Urgent, impeccably researched . . . a subversive political analysis . . . remarkably lucid -- Aarathi Prasad * Guardian *A remarkably powerful analysis . . . compelling detail . . . a revolutionary book that calls for courageous action to dismantle those structures that harm the health of people and the planet and to rebuild ones that centre care -- Aletha Maybank * The Lancet *At last! A book about medicine and healthcare that is holistic in the broadest sense in that it integrates histories of colonialism, conflict and inequality with alternative forms of knowledge. And all that while remaining compellingly readable and engaging. -- Amitav Ghosh * author of Jungle Nama and Gun Island *Science and medicine are often treated as fields that are subtracted from social movements, separate from the struggle for power that billions of human beings are embroiled in and abstracted from the material conditions around us. Luckily for us, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel are out here making these connections and encouraging us to see these as processes we all must take ownership of as we fight to have control of our surroundings. This book is on fire. -- Boots Riley * frontperson for The Coup and Writer/Director of Sorry to Bother You *A critique of the wreckage of capitalism and colonialism for our time--beautifully written, storytelling at its best. This book can change your life. -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz * author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States *Compelling reading... It encourages both clinicians and members of the public to look at their health intrinsically linked to other people, their own community, the environment, as well as the politics and economics of their country, and more broadly, the world -- Dipesh Gopal * BJGP Life *Inflamed takes the reader on a journey deep inside the human body . . . In doing so, it reveals how external inequalities affect these systems and cause serious harm -- Layla Liverpool * New Scientist *

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Bread & Roses AwardAn Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of The Year‘Essential reading‘ – The Guardian‘Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour‘ – The i‘Revealing and beautifully written‘ – David Harewood_____A thought-provoking and fearless exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students.???????Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye’s is a journey of exploration – from the outside looking in.In the groundbreaking I Heard What You Said, he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system. As a black, male teacher – an English teacher who has had to teach problematic texts – his very existence is a provocation to the status quo, giving him a unique perspective on the UK’s classrooms.Told through a series of eye-opening encounters based on the often challenging and sometimes outrageous things people have said to him or about him – from ‘Can you rap?‘ and ‘Have you been in prison?‘ to ‘Stephen who?‘ – Boakye reflects with passion and wit on what he has found out about the presumptions, silences and distortions that underpin the experience of black students and teachers._____‘Hugely important‘ – Baroness Lawrence‘Deeply compelling, intellectually rigorous and essential‘ – Nels Abbey‘Makes a powerful case‘ – Rt Hon Lady HaleTrade ReviewEssential reading . . . perhaps most of all for those Black children who may be currently going through school not realising why they are made to feel small, out of step and unworthy. For them in particular, it could be a ray of hope. * The Guardian *I Heard What You Said makes a powerful case: until we have rid our educational system of its dominant whiteness we cannot hope to give all our children the educational experience they need and deserve. -- Rt Hon Lady HaleRevealing and beautifully written. -- David HarewoodWritten with passion, fury, knowledge and, in spite of the painful subject, wit. Do you want to break down entrenched structural racism in schools? Then read this. -- Patrice Lawrence MBE, prize-winning author of OrangeboySharp and witty with moments of startling candour. * The i *Deeply compelling, intellectually rigorous and essential . . . The more people read this book, the better our education system will be understood. -- Nels Abbey, author of Think Like a White ManA riveting account . . . Rich with entertaining anecdotes. * The Bookseller *Personal and political, profound and playful, Boakye's sharp analysis of the classroom and the staffroom is essential reading. -- Darren Chetty, co-author of How to DisagreeThe book I’ve been waiting for and the book every teacher should read. Brave, brutally honest, funny and necessary. -- Ben Lindsay, author of We Need To Talk About RaceI couldn't put it down . . . a must read. -- Laura Henry-Allain MBEAn incredibly powerful, gripping book . . . It's simultaneously energising, uplifting and optimistic and eye-opening and challenging. -- Tom Sherrington (@teacherhead)I found myself being educated, delighted, saddened, informed, surprised, shocked, touched and enlightened in turn . . . A must-read book. -- Sue Cowley, author, presenter, teacherA signature blend of endearing wit and engaging prose. -- K. DeMi RyansTimely and thought provoking. -- Leninna Ofori (@healingoverhandbags)An impassioned, articulate, and irresistible call to arms. * SchoolsWeek *

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Book SynopsisLiberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and anthropologist Ruth Benedict called for teaching people, especially poor people, to be less prejudiced. Here lies the origin of today's liberal antiracism, from diversity training to Hollywood activism. Meanwhile, a more radical antiracism flowered in the Third World. Anticolonial revolutionaries traced racism to the broad economic and political structures of modernity. Thinkers like C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones, and Frantz Fanon showed how racism was connected to colonialism and capitalism, a perspective adopted even by Martin Luther King.Today, liberal antiracism has proven powerless against structural oppression. As Arun Kundnani demonstrates, white liberals can heroically confront their own whiteness all they want, yet these structures remain.This deeply researched and swift-moving narrative history tells the story of the two antiracisms and their fates. As neoliberalism reordered the world in the last decades of the twentieth century, the case became clear: fighting racism means striking at its capitalist roots.Trade ReviewDrawing lessons from a long tradition of anticolonial, anti-imperialist, and Marxist intellectuals and movements, Arun Kundnani demonstrates how racism and capitalism are indivisible parts of one global system. And unless we can see the whole, we'll never know how to fight. -- Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom DreamsThis is the book we need to deepen our understanding of how ideas of racism and anti-racism became divorced from questions of who has what and why. Kundnani explains in gorgeous detail how in the twentieth century, people who were struggling to build a new world came to comprehend racism, capitalism, and colonialism as codependent systems. And he shows us how neoliberalism has shaped new racisms-involving, for example, 'the terrorist' and 'the welfare queen'--pointing to key areas of the fight today. -- Amna A. Akbar, professor of law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of LawAn important and absorbing intervention into debates around racism today, illuminating the profound structural links between imperialism, racism and capitalism. Kundnani shows us how an understanding of this long history is a vital resource for our fights against exploitation and oppression today. -- Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent EmpireWith theoretical precision and clarity, Kundnani lays out the failings of liberals and the left, offering instead a radical anti-racism fit for tackling the urgent issues facing the world today. -- Adam Elliott-Cooper, author of Black Resistance to British PolicingWhat is Antiracism? is going to be a major staple for decades to come. -- Joshua Briond, host of the Millennials Are Killing Capitalism podcastTears into the system-and the liberal excuses that surround it -- Yuri Prasad * Socialist Worker *Provide[s] a structural analysis of racism, including colonialism and capitalism, whilst showing how liberal ideas of anti-racism can be easily co-opted to support new forms of racist power ... an essential read -- Benjamin Ashraf * New Arab *Cutting ... With over three decades of activism and an impressive body of work to his name, Kundnani draws on a history of collective struggle to offer answers to how anti-racism can be rescued from corporate whitewashing to instead challenge the structures of 'racial capitalism'. -- Sigrid Corey * Red Pepper *

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Book SynopsisThe State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safetyTrade Review'In this robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism, Francoise Vergès elucidates why a structural approach to violence is needed. If we wish to understand how racial capitalism is linked to the proliferation of intimate and state violence directed at women and gender-nonconforming people, we need to look no further than Vergès' timely analysis' -- Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz'A powerful and uncompromising text … A stunning reflection on the recurrence of assault – gender-based, sexual, racial violence' -- 'Terrafemina''An important and courageous book, which raises difficult questions and uncovers invisible structures of domination' -- 'Trou Noir''Vergès's incandescent writing casts a light on the global inequalities, brutal carceral systems, unfettered militarisation and punitive ideologies that shape violent intimacies' -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London'A call to join in the urgent decolonial feminist work of rethinking the practices of (so-called) protection outside of the logics of violence. We have the ability, Vergès insists, to enact a post violent society, to bring another world into being' -- Christina Sharpe, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University, Toronto and author of 'In the Wake: On Blackness and Being''A road map of radical emancipatory imaginaries for shaping urgent social and political change. Vergès' arguments rise from the ground up, from the lived experience of grassroots dissent, action and mobilisation against the wounds and damages inflicted by extractive capitalism across the world' -- Rasha Salti, curator of art and film'Françoise Vergès asks a simple question: what actually is the politics of protection? What she reveals is a paradigm spinning analysis. Once she establishes the perspective of people without power, the 'protection' offered by the state and the meta-state of global capital, is exposed as a killing machine of enforcement and endless punishment. A door opening work' -- Sarah Schulman, author of 'The Gentrification of the Mind' and 'Let the Records Show: A Political History of ACT UP'‘Vergès’ book avoids both the trap of disavowing the feminist project entirely while refusing to ally herself with the destructive, ongoing elite capture of feminist politics ... the book performs a necessary cataloging function and offers an international perspective for English-language readers tempted toward American chauvinism in the fight against global racial capitalism’ -- ‘The New Inquiry’Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Neoliberal Violence 2. Race, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Women's Protection 3. Punitive Feminism, an Impasse Conclusion - For a Decolonial Feminist Politics Notes

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Book SynopsisFlip the script on how you think about UGLY--what it means, what it is, and how to reclaim it to Uplift, Glorify, and Love Yourself in an uglified world.Blending joyful self-help magic with incisive social analysis and personal narrative, Vanessa Rochelle Lewis empowers readers to heal, connect, and revolt against uglification.Uglification is "ugly" weaponized: a tool, ideology, and type of oppression that designates some bodies as more or less worthy of love, respect, access, and dignity. It defines who''s accepted in what spaces, which identities are marginalized, and how we all move through the world--and is part and parcel of systems like white supremacy, ableism, sizeism, sexism, and queer- and transphobia. Here, Lewis takes on uglification, showing us how reclaiming UGLY is a subversive act that roars an unapologetic "yes!" to joy, healing, and community-building in a world that''s engineered to hold us back.Lewis asks us to go beyond analysis, inviting us to boldly perform UGLY as an act of rebellion, liberation, and radical self-love. Through self-help exercises, reflective meditations, and lesson plans, Lewis moves us closer to a collective liberation that takes back what society tells us is ugly and taboo...and teaches us to deconstruct what we''ve told ourselves is ugly and taboo. In sharing her analysis, personal journey, and activity toolkit, Lewis offers a warm embrace and compassionately guides us toward lives of radical self-acceptance, joyful community-centered healing, and unfiltered self-love.

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Book Synopsis***LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL******A GUARDIAN GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023***Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't have a realistic water gun. She said that police think little Black boys older and less innocent than they are. So began 'The Talk'...'The Ta-Nehisi Coates of comics' GARRY TRUDEAU, creator of Doonesbury'Darrin Bell has produced another American classic'GUARDIANThrough evocative illustrations and sharp humour, Darrin Bell examines how The Talk all Black parents must have with their children shaped his intimate and public moments from childhood to adulthood. While coming of age in Los Angeles - and finding a voice through cartooning - Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as dangerous by white teachers, neighbours and police officers, and thus of his mortality. Drawing attention to the brutal murders of African Americans, and showcasing revealing insights and cartoons along the way, he brings us up to the moment of reckoning when people took to the streets protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.And now Bell must decide whether he and his own six-year-old son are ready to have The Talk.Trade ReviewDarrin Bell has produced another American classic... An expressive and direct work about racism’s impact, and the problems we have discussing it * Guardian, *Best Graphic Novels of the Year* *It's nearly impossible to appreciate another person's truth, but if a brilliant storyteller offers to light the way, take him up on it. Bell is the Ta-Nehisi Coates of comics, an indispensable explainer of how it feels to grow up in a world that repeatedly treats you as other. The talk with my white sons boiled down to 'Be kind.' It's hard to overstate the distance between that admonition and 'Stay alive' -- Garry Trudeau, creator of DoonesburyVisually stunning, and propulsive, with an absorbing narrative voice... Reminiscent of longform comics memoirs such as Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis... This epic portrait of an artist is a masterpiece... The Talk makes a penetrative, and lasting, impression * NPR *Propulsive reading, drawn with urgency and verve. Once you pick up The Talk, you won't be able to put it down -- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun HomeA moving portrait... funny and touching, intellectually and emotionally stimulating. There's pride and prejudice, family drama, and a love story. I loved this book. You will too -- Victor LaValle, author of The ChangelingA Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist draws on his childhood in Los Angeles to explore racism on a deeply personal level. There’s a poignancy, too, in the cyclical nature of the story: Bell, now a father, is wrestling with the same questions his own parents face * New York Times *A deeply personal, brutally honest, and achingly funny graphic novel... The Talk is a strikingly illustrated vision -- Lalo Alcaraz, creator of La CucarachaDarrin Bell's first foray into graphic novels is a triumph. A cinematically comic, coming-of-age blend of race, culture, and gratuitous nerdity. Wonderful -- Keith Knight, creator of The K Chronicles and Woke

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Book SynopsisBlack Resilience provides powerful strategies for success and empowerment, answering a critical question for the Black community: where do we go from here?This once-in-a-generation book embodies stories and experiences shared by the author—Braeden Anderson—a former high-major NCAA athlete who overcame childhood abuse, homelessness, and severe racism to become an attorney at the world’s largest law firm and a successful entrepreneur. Black Resilience empowers and equips the reader with the strategy to win against any odds and triumph in the face of life’s greatest challenges. Racism can be as loud and resounding as a gunshot, or as quiet and inconspicuous as being laid off. Whether it’s hidden or apparent, we will not escape it without taking action. We—Black people—have the power to effect positive change in our lives and our communities. Black Resilience shows us how. Readers will get an honest, empowering roadmap to address concerns ranging from asserting your identity, the dichotomy of inclusion, employing empathy, and transcending learned helplessness, to the challenge and triumph of Black parenthood. They’ll learn how to deploy what the author calls our “covert operation of tact,” and they’ll see that everyone—Blacks and whites alike—must build one community. Black Resilience represents a tactful and dynamic ideology that belongs in the hands of every reader who is ready to receive the solution for beating racism…for good.

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Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has cost all of us' - Elizabeth Gilbert Picked for the Financial Times Summer Books by Gillian Tett What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie. McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence, and a profound well of empathy, to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out under white supremacy. And US racism is everybody's problem. As McGhee shows, it was bigoted lending policies that laid the ground for the 2008 financial crisis. There can be little prospect of tackling global climate change until America's zero-sum delusions are defeated. The Sum of Us offers a priceless insight into the workings of prejudice, and a timely invitation to solidarity among all humans, 'to piece together a new story of who we could be to one another'.Trade ReviewShocking [and] hard to argue with ... McGhee is on [an] ambitious mission. [Her] optimistic demeanour [and] research also inspires hope ... It is tantalisingly easy to embrace her vision -- Gillian Tett * FT *This is the book I've been waiting for -- Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author * How to Be an Antiracist *A must-read for everyone -- Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives MatterImpactful ... McGhee weaves together personal anecdotes and family history, reporting and social science to present an image of what the United States is, but does not have to be. It is a picture some Americans grew up seeing, which others ignore at their peril -- Emily Tamkin * New Statesman *With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has cost all of us -- Elizabeth Gilbert * Eat, Pray, Love *A vital, urgent, stirring, beautifully written book that offers a compassionate roadmap out of our present troubled moment -- George Saunders, Booker Prize-winning authorThere is a striking clarity to this book; there is also a depth of kindness in it that all but the most churlish readers will find moving -- Jennifer Szalai * New York Times *Very real, and very hopeful, and that's the rarest of combinations. It will be a classic on the day it's published -- Bill McKibben, author * Falter *The beauty and power of this book is blinding. Heather McGhee is one of our society's brightest minds and The Sum of Us serves as a torch that we must follow to get us to a better place. The impact of racism is all encompassing, and this book doesn't just highlight that, it gives us a road map for the future. I am better because of this book. Our country will be better because of this book -- Wes Moore, bestselling author of Five Days and The Other Wes MooreA powerful, singular, and prescriptive blend of the macro and the intimate * O Magazine *Political commentator McGhee argues in her astute and persuasive debut that income inequality and the decline of the middle and working classes are a direct result of the country's long history of racial injustice ... This sharp, thorough, and engrossing report casts America's racial divide in a new light * Publishers Weekly, starred *An eye-opening, powerful argument for working ever harder for racial equity * Kirkus, starred *Heather McGhee does not shy away from telling hard truths. Racism sits at the heart of America, and McGhee shows its effects on the very people who cleave to it. The Sum of Us removes the cloak from this land of so-called innocents and brilliantly offers a path forward for the nation. This book is for all of us standing in the breach, working towards social change. With care and unflinching honesty, McGhee has written an extraordinary book for these difficult days -- Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin Again

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Book SynopsisClassical civilisation, Martin Bernal argues, has deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures. But these Afro-Asiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied, or suppressed since the eighteenth century - chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilisation was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers--or Aryans--from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this Aryan model. They did not see their political institutions, science, philosophy, or religion as original, but rather as derived from the East in general, and Egypt in particular. Black Athena is a three-volume work. Volume 1 concentrates on the crucial period between 1785 and 1850, which saw the Romantic and racist reaction to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and the consolidation of Northern expansion into other continents.In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal maTrade ReviewHis account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find -- Margaret Drabble * Observer *Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology – perhaps one should say politics – of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency… The ‘fabrication’ of Ancient Greece…will never pass as a natural identity again * Guardian *The value of the book lies in his massive and meticulous demonstration of how scholarly views of the past are moulded (and repeatedly modified) by the changing political environment in which scholars pass their lives... Black Athena is certainly a stimulus to thought * London Review of Books *Has the virtues of force, clarity, wealth of ideas and a voracious intellectual curiosity * Times Higher Educational Supplement *A swashbuckling foray into the very heart of racist, Eurocentric historiography... Already one can hear the knives being sharpened against Bernal * City Limits *

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Book SynopsisNew to Penguin Classics, one of the most influential works of Black social criticism ever written The Mis-education of the Negro is today considered one of the most influential works by ''the father of Black history'', Carter G. Woodson, setting the table for generations of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators.As both student and teacher, Woodson witnessed the distortions of Black life in the history and literature taught in schools and universities. He believed that there was a relationship between these distortions and the violence that circumscribed Black life in the material world, declaring, There would be no lynching it if did not start in the schoolroom. Mixing social criticism, history, theory and memoir, The Mis-education of the Negro argues cogently that students, teachers, and leaders needed to be educated in a manner that was accountable to Black experiences and lived realities, both past and present.

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Book SynopsisWinner of Best New Play at the Olivier Awards 2024 It's time to change the game.The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can't England's men win at their own game?The team has the worst track record for penalties in the world and manager Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take team and country back to the promised land.James Graham's rousing new play' (Tatler) is a fast-moving portrayal of Gareth Southgate's reign as England football manager that presents a gripping examination of both nation and game. Uplifting, funny and more entertaining than a World Cup final.This edition was published to coincide with the West End transfer of Dear England in October 2023, following its world premiere at the National Theatre in June 2023.

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Book Synopsis'Samuel Kasumu has written an important - and very moving - book about the outsider phenomenon.' - Robert Peston' I loved reading about your childhood and your anxieties as a father. The personal is so well mixed with the analytical. Thank you for reflecting our experiences and ideas so well and so sensitively. This is really great to read!' - Kadie Kanneh-MasonSamuel Kasumu was the most senior black advisor in Boris Johnson's government, until he left in April 2021. Throughout his time in Whitehall, Samuel became increasingly aware that he was an outsider - that his own experiences, assumptions and language were so different to many of those he found himself surrounded by in Downing Street.In this book Samuel considers who outsiders are, why they are not talked about enough and how it can be a source of strength that leads them to become high achievers. He argues that the success of many great people can be explained by their outsider status.Drawing on his own experiences in government, growing up and beyond, as well as the stories of other outsiders, famous and lesser known, Samuel shows how outsiders are more likely to be trailblazers and break barriers, how they have a greater sense of perspective and progress and how our differences can be a force for good - in politics and beyond.Trade ReviewWe spend our lives complaining about how insiders have stitched up everything to their advantage. But the biggest winners are often outsiders - who see things others miss and often have superhuman drive. Samuel Kasumu has written an important - and very moving - book about the outsider phenomenon. * Robert Peston *(A) fascinating account of how outsiders can become insiders - a surprisingly moving and personal account of Samuel Kasumu's time as a former race advisor in a Boris Johnson government * Serena Barker-Singh *

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Book SynopsisA memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Grant is a natural storyteller... Compelling and charming'BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other'Grant's most revealing work'NEW STATESMAN‘I’m black, so you don’t have to be,’ Colin Grant’s uncle Castus used to tell him. If Colin – born in Britain to Jamaican parents – worked hard and became a doctor, his race would become invisible; he would shake off the burden his parents’ generation had carried. The reality turned out to be very different.This is a memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, including of Grant’s mother Ethlyn, his father Bageye, his sister Selma, and his great uncle Percy. Each character we meet is navigating their own path. Each life informs Grant’s own shifting sense of his identity. Collectively, these stories build into an unforgettable testimony of black British experience.Trade ReviewColin Grant writes about the characters in his family with the mischievous, dramatic flair of a natural storyteller. This is a compelling and charming read. -- Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author Girl, Woman, OtherAn important and timely book for an increasingly diverse and diffuse set of communities, a reminder of those questions of home and belonging, an invitation to parse them. * Guardian *Fascinating, brilliant, subtle, educative book. -- Michael Rosen, author of We're Going on a Bear HuntThis outstanding memoir contains a beautiful tenderness and a courageous realness. Vibrant, poignant and brutally frank, it is rooted in authenticity and wisdom, the details of a world well-observed. Grant's work here is powerful, evocative, empowered and forthright. -- Salena Godden, author of Mrs Death Misses DeathGrant's most revealing work... This compelling and poignant book gives a convincing answer to the first question: that there is more than one way to be black. * New Statesman *

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Book SynopsisMichael Woolf (he/him) teaches theology at Lewis University. He is also an ordained American Baptist pastor who has served faith communities in Massachusetts and Illinois for over a decade.Trade ReviewSanctuary and Subjectivity is a book for our current zeitgeist. At a time when the theological academy has finally caught sight of the phenomenon that is whiteness and its impact on the boundaries and borders that are policed by White nationalism, Michael Woolf's book is a breath of fresh air. It offers us a challenging and inspiring look at one of the major fault lines in our contemporary life. This is a must read! * Anthony G. Reddie, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 The Limits of Benevolence: Autoethnographic Notes on Sanctuary Chapter 2 Practicing Sanctuary: The Formation of a Practice in Real-Time Chapter 3 Becoming Refugees: Human Rights Discourse and Subjectivity Chapter 4 "We Just Couldn't Help Ourselves": Whiteness and the Sanctuary Movement Chapter 5 The Insurgent Collaborative Church: Ecclesiologies Beyond Sanctuary Conclusion Directions in Practical Theology Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis2020 was a year in which global politics radically shifted, catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This book is a response to that year, asking: was it a moment or is it a movement, and what fundamental changes within the arts industry need to come out of this time? The book includes over 20 interviews with some of the most pioneering Black cultural leaders from a wide range of senior executive positions in the arts within the UK, Europe, US and Africa. It documents the sea of change in arts leadership at the height of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the pressure on organizations to confront and change their racial and ethnic make-up, and shines a light on the guiding ambitions, strategic plans and visions for the future to support the ongoing decolonization of arts organizations across the world. Learn from those who have walked the walk to support your vision for the future.Trade ReviewA resounding testimony of best practices for staying grounded in spaces that cross the color line. * Kamilah Forbes, Director and Executive Producer, Apollo Theater, USA *Table of ContentsThe Act of Decolonisation is this book, THIS Conversation Olivia Poglio-Nwabali interviews Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway and Kwame Kwei-Armah Chapter One: We’ve Been Leading! LEADERSHIP IN OUR DNA Quotes: Sade Lynthcott, Robert Barry Fleming -Always Willing to Leave - Timothy Bond -It’s the Board’s Responsibility to Find the Plenty of Overqualified Black Candidates - Patrick Bradford Chapter Two: Becoming the First Quotes: Timothy Bond, Lydia Idakula-Sobogun-Sobogun, Yvonne Hepburn-Foster, Julia Wissert, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Deborah Sawyerr, Samora Bergtop, James Ngcobo, Stella Kanu, Hana Sharif -If I Can’t Do The Job, I Don’t Want the Title - Hana Sharif -I Can’t Not Apply, I Can Do The Job! - Nataki Garrett -Are You Going To Be An Nostalgic Leader Or One That Challenges and Upgrades? - James Ngcobo -They Said, “WE DIDN’T HIRE YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE BLACK’ I was like, “That’s the BONUS. That’s the BONUS” - Marc Bamuthi Joseph -Leadership is Making Mistakes and Getting Back Up Again - Julia Wissert -A Lonely Road But A Position of Authority And Trust - Yvonne Hepburn-Foster Chapter Three: First 100 Days Quotes: Jonathan McCrory, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Robert Barry Fleming, Deborah Sawyerr, Nike Jonah, Roy Alexander Weise, Patrick Bradford, David Bryan, Stella Kanu Interviews -An Unapologetic Maverick in the Workplace - Nike Jonah -Every Board Needs New Energy And Voice To Shift The Focus And Direction Of The Organisation - David Bryan -I Bring My Own Structure for Safety and Survival - Stella Kanu -Asking the Hard Questions - Robert Barry Fleming Chapter Four: Inheriting a Challenging Staff and Board Quotes: Robert Barry Fleming, Stella Kanu, Hana Sharif, Suzann McLean -Leaning In When They Lean Out - Stella Kanu -Money Talks - Hana Sharif -Board Support Matters - Patrick Bradford Chapter Five: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Quotes: Maria Oshodi, Lydia Idakula-Sobogun, Deborah Sawyerr, Suzann McLean, Jonathan McCrory Interviews -Allies Are The Greatest Vaccination - David Bryan -I Doubt The Work Environment NOT My Abilities! - Stella Kanu -I Am A Warrior But I Am Human Too! - Hana Sharif -Be The Best Servant Leader For Nobody But Yourself - Robert Barry Fleming Chapter Six: Leading in a Pandemic at the Height of The Black Lives Matter Movement Quotes: Marc Joseph Bamuthi, Timothy Bond, Roy Alexander Weise -Artistic Director Role Turned Into A Crisis Manager Role Overnight - Julia Wissert -Whose Fight is Racism - Yvonne Hepburn-Foster -We Took Care Of Our People First - A Mass Redundancy Was Never An Option - Hana Sharif -STAND On A New Foundation - Gregory Maqoma -Letting Go, Making Cuts & Evolving Into a Transmedia Leader - Robert Barry Fleming -A Perspective On Tokenism - Taiwo Afolabi Chapter Seven: Leading From the Front and The Power of Intuition Quotes: Marc Bathumi Joseph, Gregory Maqoma, Timothy Bond, Asiimwe Deborah Kawe, James Ngcobo, Patrick Bradford, David Bryan -Our North Star is Black Liberation - Sade Lythcott -The Juggling Act: Leading From The Front AND The Back - David Bryan Chapter Eight: Transforming the Culture and The Art of Negotiation Quotes: Timothy Bond, Gregory Maqoma, Samora Bergtop, Taiwo Afolabi -Funders Cannot Dictate Our Artistic Programming - Asiimwe Deborah Kawe -To Make Art That Matters, You Must Be A Rebel - Lydia Idakula-Sobogun -We See You White America, In Action! - Timothy Bond -A world Stage in Africa: Centering Diverse Voices and Indigenous Languages - James Ngcobo Chapter Nine: Recovering from a Setback Quote: Robert Barry Fleming, Deborah Sawyerr -No More Appeasing The White Gaze - Samora Bergtop -Knowing When It’s Time to Let Go - David Bryan -The Impossible Rubik’s Cube - Hana Sharif Chapter Ten: The Importance of Wellbeing Quotes: Lydia Idakula-Sobogun, Natasha Bucknor, Robert Barry Fleming, Jonathan McCrory, Sade Lythcott -Learning To Speak To Myself With Kindness - Asiimwe Deborah Kawe -Leaders Are Readers - David Bryan -Setting Healthy Boundaries - Stella Kanu -Solo Vacations - Hana Sharif Chapter Eleven: Succession & Legacy Quotes: Nataki Garrett, James Ngcobo, Nike Jonah -Mentorship Is Legacy - Asiimwe Deborah Kawe -Building Something That Survives Long After You - Patrick Bradford -The Legacy Is The Village and Building Institutions For The Future - David Bryan -Succession of Skills - Stella Kanu -Opening Doors and Holding Space - Hana Sharif -A Model of Anti-Racist Multicultural Theatre - Timothy Bond

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Book SynopsisIn Nice White Ladies, race and gender professor Jessie Daniels looks beyond the "Karens" and the pussy hats, to offer an illuminating look at how white women participate in, benefit from, and--crucially--can combat racism.Chapter by chapter, Daniels looks at the most urgent examples of how white womanhood has been weaponized today, and then dives deeper into the history and the false narratives behind these events. She examines specific figures including Amy Cooper and the Central Park birdwatcher, and Linda Fairstein and the Central Park Five, but also looks at larger social shifts and the role white women have had in deepening existing inequalities. Seemingly empowering movements for white women have also harmed people of color, from a feminism that had pushed the voices of Brown and Black women aside, to an entire wellness industry that insulates white women in bubble of their own privilege. White women are often unwilling to examine the fact that their day to day choices, including selecting only the best schools and neighborhoods for their children, results in a hoarding of resources for white families and a return to segregation.In a nation deeply divided by race, Jessie Daniels boldly addresses white women's complicity in discrimination but also in their unique potential to resist and dismantle the white nationalism that threatens us all. The stakes are deeply personal for Daniels, as a white woman seeking to call in fellow white women, with an invitation to think together and act-rather than simply call out and criticize. By excavating her own life for examples of failing, learning, evolving, and changing course, Daniels provides a roadmap for other white women looking to make much needed change. Ultimately, she shows how white women can be more than allies, but trusted accomplices in a shared mission to secure equality for all.

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Book Synopsis***AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4's OPEN BOOK***The 'propulsive, haunting' and 'gripping' (Oprah) rediscovered classic that exposes the dark heart of America for an inncocent Black man on the run from the policeFred Daniels, a black man, is randomly picked up by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago suburb. Taken to the local precinct, he is tortured -- until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit.But when he sees his chance, Fred Daniels, makes a run for it. With the world now against him, there is only one place left to hide: Underground. Taking residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago, Fred's new vantage point takes him on a journey through America's unjust, and inhumane underbelly.PRAISE FOR THE MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND'Propulsive, haunting...gripping' Oprah Daily'A tale for today' New York Times'Absolutely not to be missed' BookRiot'A masterpiece' Time 'Wright's most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.' Kiese LaymonThe Man Who Lived Underground was a New York Times Bestseller on 24/04/2022Trade ReviewThe Man Who Lived Underground is a masterpiece * Time Magazine *Moves continuously forward with its masterful blend of action and reflection, a kind of philosophy on the run... Whether or not The Man Who Lived Underground is Wright's single finest work, it must be counted among his most significant * Wall Street Journal *Not just Wright's masterwork, but also a milestone in African American literature... The Man Who Lived Underground is one of those indispensable works that reminds all its readers that, whether we are in the flow of life or somehow separated from it, above- or belowground, we are all human * CNN *Propulsive, haunting... The graphic, gripping book ends with a revealing companion essay that further explains the themes of this searing novel * Oprah Daily *The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any 'greatest writers of the 20th century' list that doesn't start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright's most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book -- Kiese LaymonA tale for today... [Wright's] restored novel feels wearily descriptive of far too many moments in contemporary America * New York Times *This is a significant work of literary fiction from a legendary author that's absolutely not to be missed * Book Riot *

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Book SynopsisA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book A Best Book of 2021 by BuzzFeed and Real Simple An “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerful forces at work that allow some to flourish…and others to falter.They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded—fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girls—as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration come of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement. It has offered them a promise, albeit nascent and fragile, that they will have more opportunities, rights, and freedoms than any generation of Black Americans in history. Their working-class, striving parents are eager for them to realize this hard-fought potential. But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdropping on grown folks’ business; collecting secret treasures; and daydreaming about their futures—Dawn and Debra, doctors, Kim a teacher. For a brief, wondrous moment the girls are all giggles and dreams and promises of “friends forever.” And then fate intervenes, first slowly and then dramatically, sending them careening in wildly different directions. There’s heartbreak, loss, displacement, and even murder. Dawn struggles to make sense of the shocking turns that consume her sister and her best friend, all the while asking herself a simple but profound question: Why? In the vein of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Three Girls from Bronzeville is a “deeply personal” (Real Simple) memoir that chronicles Dawn’s attempt to find answers. It’s at once a celebration of sisterhood and friendship, a testimony to the unique struggles of Black women, and a tour-de-force about the complex interplay of race, class, and opportunity, and how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption.

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Book SynopsisNamed a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review and New York MagazineThe two-time National Book Award winner and author of Salvage the Bones and Let Us Descend, contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a Black man in the rural South.We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. Harriet TubmanIn five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her lifeto drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truthand it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue higher education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity. A brutal world rendered beautifully, Jesmyn Ward's memoir will sit comfortably alongside Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I''m Dying, Tobias Wolff''s This Boy's Life, and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

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Book SynopsisWhat stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this fantasy continues to underlie contemporary society, McGowan claims, racism will remain with us, no matter how strenuously we struggle to eliminate it. The racist fantasy, a fantasy in which the racial other is a figure who blocks the enjoyment of the racist, is a shared social structure. No one individual invented it, and no one individual is responsible for its perpetuation. While no one is guilty for the emergence of the racist fantasy, people are nonetheless responsible for keeping it alive and thus responsible for fighting against it. The Racist Fantasy examines how this fantasy provides the psychic basis for the racism that appears so conspicuously throughout modern history. The racist fantasy informs everything fTrade ReviewWe confront the world these days with increasing perplexity as old problems resurface from a distant and, we presumed, superseded past. How is this so? Facing squarely one such problem Todd McGowan lucidly explains why racism is so recalcitrant and how it exposes the naivete of prevailing theories of the phenomenon, while offering an extended account of its complex phantasmatic structure. A timely and thorough book. * Joan Copjec, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, USA *Rarely is theory elucidated with such clarity or applied with such historical range. By foregrounding fantasy as the frame that structures our enjoyment, McGowan’s The Racist Fantasy baldly positions psychic enjoyment as the unconscious source for varieties of racism, from anti-blackness to antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism. This is a capacious study, able to unveil the function of the racist fantasy not only at the heart of our contemporary capitalist society but also at the root of the Enlightenment thinking that gave birth to our modern world. The Racist Fantasy is a needed corrective to contemporary anti-racist thinking that only nominally invoke the unconscious or that completely ignore its role in structuring the enjoyment that binds us to racism. * Sheldon George, Professor and Chair of Literature and Writing, Simmons University, USA and coeditor of Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalysis (2021) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Hiding the Unconscious 1. The Racist Fantasy 2. The Fantasy’s Breadth 3. Racism and Modernity 4. The Variegations of the Fantasy 5. The Violent Issue 6. On the Other Side of Fantasy Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA revolutionary classic written by a living legend of Black LiberationTrade Review'A powerful – even startling – monograph that challenges many of the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism, the received wisdom of Black Marxist thought, and the pieties of liberalism, white, Black or otherwise. It is also stunningly prescient. Its analysis and critiques of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so' -- Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda ReportTable of ContentsForeword by William C. Anderson Catalyst by Joy James Introduction 1. Anarchism Defined: A Tutorial on Anarchist Theory and Practice 2. Capitalism and Racism: An Analysis of White Supremacy and the Oppression of Peoples of Color 3. Anarchism and the Black Revolution 4. Pan-Africanism or Intercommunalism? Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin Index

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Book SynopsisAn eloquent and thought-provoking book on racism and prejudice by the Liverpool and England football legend John Barnes.John Barnes spent the first dozen years of his life in Jamaica before moving to the UK with his family in 1975. Six years later he was a professional footballer, distinguishing himself for Watford, Liverpool and England, and in the process becoming this country''s most prominent black player.Barnes is now an articulate and captivating social commentator on a broad range of issues, and in The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism he tackles head-on the issues surrounding prejudice with his trademark intelligence and authority.By vividly evoking his personal experiences, and holding a mirror to this country''s past, present and future, Barnes provides a powerful and moving testimony. The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism will help to inform and advance the global conversation around society''s ongoing battle with the awful stainTrade ReviewBarnes has written a book which reiterates that racism is embedded in society rather than just football. -- Donald McRae * The Guardian *this book certainly feels uncomfortable, but important, too... Passionate, confrontational stuff. -- Ben East * The Guardian *brilliantly written... a genuinely important book -- Jonathan Ross * The Jonathan Ross Show *something we all need to be reading... an absolutely brilliant book... a great read for all of us -- Zoe Ball * BBC Radio 2 *an absolutely terrific book -- Susanna Reid * Good Morning Britain *[John Barnes is] such a clear thinker... well worth reading -- Richard Madeley * Good Morning Britain *

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Book SynopsisSettlers is a testament to Jimi Famurewa''s love not just for his lineage, but for the culture. An incisive, intimate and profound work.- Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie and People PersonAs thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this book is an indispensable map to London today.- Ben Judah, Journalist and author of This is London: Life and Death in the World CityJimi brings modern black London alive like no other author. This feels like an important book that is also a total pleasure to read. - Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial PastThe past, present and future of being Black, African and British in the capital.This is a story that begins with post-1960s arrivals from Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Somalia. Today their descendants have unleashed a tidal wave of British creativity from Lambeth to Lagos, IslingtTrade ReviewAs thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this book is an indispensable map to London today. * Ben Judah, Journalist and author of This is London: Life and Death in the World City *Illuminating and fascinating, with humour and some surprises, Jimi Famurewa examines Britain's African communities, past and present. * Stephen Bourne, author of Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War *Jimi brings modern black London alive like no other author. This feels like an important book that is also a total pleasure to read. * Sathnam Sanghera, author of EmpireLand: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past *Settlers is the book I didn’t know I was waiting for. Jimi Famurewa approaches an incredibly complicated topic with a steady hand and fine precision that results in a book that is well researched, rich in nuance and handled with care. It was as enjoyable to read as it was enlightening. * Jendella Benson, author of Hope & Glory *This is an extraordinary and beautifully written piece of work that deals with a deeply complex and rich history with a remarkable lightness of touch, sensitivity, warmth and insight. It is depressing to reflect on the reality that all too many people continue to question the benefits of immigration. This fine book shows beyond any doubt that London, and this country, is all the better for its Black African population. * James Ramsden *A spellbinding portrait of culture, talent, food and activism. * Stylist Magazine *Settlers is replete with revealing anecdotes… Famurewa’s writing is thoughtful, cogent and admirably even-handed. * theguardian.com *Dazzling. * Waitrose Food Magazine *[Jimi's] voice and the way he writes I just love. * Jamie Oliver *Settlers is a pleasure to read, by turns lyrical, approachable, funny, sensitive and always well-researched… [Famurewa] sweeps you along so thoroughly that you don’t realise until you close the book quite how much you have enjoyed it, how much you have learnt and how much it will stay with you. * The Spectator *Combined with [Jimi's] own family history, this is a sometimes painful but always postivie story of defiance and reclamation. * theguardian.com *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Second Great Wave 1 Farm 2 Market 3 Boat 4 Cell 5 Worship House 6 Restaurant 7 Classroom 8 Suburb Conclusion: The Next Great Wave Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

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Book Synopsis**Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award** **A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year** **Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2023** **Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022** ‘Oxblood shows us that there are few places literature can’t take us, if the writer is brave enough, and gifted enough’ FRANCIS SPUFFORD 'The master of northern noir' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant' DENISE MINA 'An absolute triumph' GUARDIAN 'Powerful and so beautifully written' HARRIET TYCE, Sunday Times-bestselling author of BLOOD ORANGE ________________________________________________________________ Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester’s underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby and the ghost of a murdered lover. Over the course of a few days, Nedra, Carol and Jan must each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives; and seize the opportunity to break the cycle for good. _______________________________________________________________ ‘If I read a better novel than Oxblood in 2022, it’ll be a blinding year for fiction’ JOSEPH KNOX 'A propulsive, bountiful, fearless work of art' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE 'One of the most powerful and urgent writers of our times' DAVID PEACETrade ReviewWith a brutal yet compassionate honesty, Oxblood confronts the past as it was and how it shapes who we are now, and confirms Tom Benn as one of the most powerful and urgent writers of our times -- DAVID PEACE, author of THE RED RIDING QUARTETDeeply immersive and evocative ... a novel to lose yourself in * SUNDAY TIMES, 100 best books for summer 2023 *The master of northern noir * SUNDAY TIMES *A rich archive of bygone badness * THE TIMES *An astonishing piece of work. Captures the stories of three women from an underworld family with ferocious honesty and compassion. Audacious writing - visceral, rich and intense. Unforgettable characters haunted by violence and grief. Exceptional -- CATH STAINCLIFFEOxblood shows us that there are few places literature can’t take us, if the writer is brave enough, and gifted enough -- FRANCIS SPUFFORDI really felt I needed to savour each sentence ... An utterly unique voice, telling a working-class story that resists the usual cliches -- OTEGHA UWAGBAPowerful stuff and so beautifully written - like David Peace wrote Alan Warner’s The Sopranos and so lyrical, too. You don’t care where it’s heading, you’re just happy to step into the flow and let it take you. Brilliant stuff - this is really very good indeed -- HARRIET TYCETom Benn is one of publishing’s best kept secrets. His story about the struggles of three generations of women in a Manchester crime clan has been rendered with such care and specificity that it feels wholly original. The result is a rich, dark, atmospheric family saga that contains so much buried love and anger and grief and sexual jealousy and bitter disappointment … I emerged from it exhilarated -- JOHANNA THOMAS-CORRIf I read a better novel than Oxblood in 2022, it’ll be a blinding year for fiction. Tom Benn, please take a bow. Everybody else, please take note -- JOSEPH KNOXReading Oxblood is a compelling and deeply unsettling experience; this is a novel that glitters with the dark energy and lifeblood of its characters -- NAOMI BOOTHA propulsive, bountiful, fearless work of art -- OYINKAN BRAITHWAITEWhat a voice Tom Benn has got, what a feel for character and place, and what an uncompromising approach he has to his subject and material. He’s gritty but totally empathetic, and inhabits his milieu of 1980s Manchester with total conviction and no attempt to soften the voices of his characters -- ANDREW HOLGATEA remarkable galvanization of a time and a place, its style and substance so rooted in one another it is impossible to imagine it being written by anyone else. A story that seeps into you, sentences turned to catch the light like night eyes. A living thing -- DOMINIC NOLAN, author of Vine StreetOne of those rare books where place and time are conjured so effortlessly, the cast of characters drawn with so much ease and grace -- MONA ARSHIMore than anything, I was enamored with Benn's audacity: to tell this raw, violent, compassionate story; to use language in such a thrilling and fresh way; to explore the dark hearts of ordinary people, and to not look way when things get messy; to be, basically, this good -- D W WILSONThe gangland novel you have never read before, the one that gets inside the minds of three generations of women whose lives are bound to the crime lords of Wythenshawe by blood, flesh, fear, desire and a hunger for possession that cannot be contained in one lifetime. In a place where Mean Streets meets Most Haunted, with his hyper-intense, hallucinogenic prose, Benn will make you believe in ghosts -- CATHI UNSWORTHOxblood is a book to get lost headlong in. Tom Benn manages to be heart-felt and attentive and generous, without ever resorting to being sentimental … This is a book of anti-sentimental greatness, wonderfully written, deft and pungent and sensuous … It is honest and truthful, but also a great feat of fiction -- STIG ABELL

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter the call for the abolition of the police became a central demand for the movement. In this extraordinary, revelatory memoir, Derecka Purnell recounts her own path towards abolitionism. Her story starts in St. Louis, where she was often unhoused and experienced food insecurity, and where calling 911 was often the only option in a crisis. She describes her political awakening and activism through watching the aftermaths of events including Hurricane Katrina, the murder of Trayvon Martin and the uprising in her hometown of Ferguson following the death of Michael Brown. Through Harvard Law School she comes to see that that solution can be found not just in the debate on better policing but the end of the policing itself. Through her own story she makes a powerful, passionate argument for rethinking a fair, equal society where there is no place for state violence and racial repression. Purnell confronts the history of police as a means to capture runaway slaves and uphold white supremacy, to the over-policing and murder of Black people in today's cities. She argues that the police are doing exactly what they were created to do and, in response, imagines new systems that work to address the root causes of violence instead. A revolutionary book about the hope for freedom, Becoming Abolitionists will inspire readers to imagine and create new communities that can guarantee safety, equality, and real justice for all.Trade ReviewAt once specific and sweeping, practical and visionary, Becoming Abolitionists is a triumph of political imagination and a tremendous gift to all movements struggling towards liberation. Do not miss its brilliance! -- Naomi Klein, author of This Changes EverythingWith deep insight and moral clarity, Purnell shares her compelling journey of political education and personal transformation, inviting us not only to imagine a world without police, but to muster the courage to fight for the more just world we know is possible. Becoming Abolitionists is essential reading for our times. -- Michelle Alexander, bestselling author of The New Jim CrowOne of the most perceptive and passionate thinkers of any generation, Derecka Purnell, has written a genuinely revolutionary text for our times-one that resists easy answers or solutions and never shies from the hard questions. She proves that abolition is not an event or a utopian dream state, but rather a journey of assembly struggling to create new worlds of freedom as we fight the unfree world we inhabit. Beautifully written, passionate, honest, Becoming Abolitionists charts a journey we all must take if we plan to survive, let alone live together. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom DreamsA vital resource for anyone committed to the struggle for social justice, written by one of the sharpest and most inspiring voices to emerge in a generation. Taking readers on a journey from her childhood in St. Louis to the protests in Ferguson, the halls of Harvard, the streets of Soweto and beyond, Derecka Purnell's heart-rendering analysis gives us the tools to envision a new society with endless possibilities. Even more, Purnell's extraordinary blend of personal memoir, history, and critical theory provides a roadmap to build a safer and more just world. Like the Autobiography of Angela Davis, Becoming Abolitionists is sure to remain an essential text for decades to come. -- Elizabeth Hinton, author of America on Fire and From the War on Poverty to the War on CrimePurnell is undoubtedly one of the most important writers and activists of our generation, offering us a vivid, moving and compelling book for anyone interested in one of the most urgent issues of our times. Purnell weaves experiences of racism and resistance to articulate a blistering critique of racial capitalism, state power and imperialism, taking readers on a journey towards the radical alternatives to police and prisons which have shaped Black political movements in the 21st century -- Adam Elliott-Cooper, author of Black Resistance to British PolicingDerecka Purnell has one of the most exciting minds of a generation, and Becoming Abolitionists gives us all an excuse to praise her. This book is an explosion of deep intellect matched with great love, showing a journey toward radical politics that embraces the messiness. Derecka does not expect we all wake up and become abolitionists immediately--it didn't happen that way for her--but by showing both her intellectual and emotional path toward abolitionist thinking, she provides a roadmap that is also compassionate to those moving in a slower lane. But with an argument rooted in history, criticism guided by deep care, and writing that pulses with urgency, Becoming Abolitionists will convince you that is exactly what we all need to do before you even put the book down. -- Mychal Denzel Smith, author of Invisible Man Got The Whole World WatchingBecoming Abolitionists brilliantly lays out the connections between policing and other forms of oppression and shows why even well-meaning "reforms" won't get us where we need to go. This profound, urgent, beautiful, and necessary book is an invitation to imagine and organize for a less violent and more liberatory world. Everyone should read it. -- Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist but We’ll Miss It When It’s GoneA beautiful invitation to understand what is possible if we commit to unlearning our dependence on police and address the underlying injustices that cause harm in our communities. This is the book we have been waiting for and knew we needed to advance abolitionist efforts. Purnell is the abolitionist writer of her generation -- Bettina Love, author of Abolitionist TeachingPart memoir & part manifesto for our times. Beautifully written, the book takes the reader on a personal journey from the Midwest to South Africa with a pit stop in New England. As a member of the 'Trayvon Generation,' Derecka offers us invaluable insights into how young activists are navigating and challenging current injustices. If you've been curious about the modern abolitionist movement, this book is a must read! -- Mariame Kaba, bestselling author of We Do This Til We Free UsArgues convincingly that police departments and prisons are irredeemably implicated in racist ideologies and the perpetuation of violence despite long-standing efforts at reform . . .An informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment * Kirkus Starred Review *[Purnell] draws convincing parallels between the past and the present to demonstrate that today's policing systems are vestiges of this oppressive framework ... even if you disagree with her, you are compelled to listen. -- Nesrine Malik * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisThis vibrant new book springs from the continued failure of the counselling and psychotherapy profession to adequately prepare trainees to meet the needs of today’s multi-ethnic, multiracial and multicultural society. The editors, both highly experienced trainers and academics, have gathered together here a group of new and established writers who draw on personal and professional experiences to present an array of fresh ideas and approaches. Their aim is to inform training curricula that would more adequately prepare therapy students to respond sensitively and in culturally appropriate ways to clients of diverse cultural and racial identities. Each chapter presents a challenge to all therapeutic practitioners, whatever their specialist role, to attend to and reflect on their personal and professional attitudes and behaviours in relation to clients of all heritages and origins. Issues addressed include unconscious privilege, ‘othering’, micro-aggressions, broaching, racism, discrimination, the search for meaning, identity complexity, intersectional understanding, heritage, biases and projections, trauma, intergenerational trauma, introjections, projection and decolonisation of the curriculum. This book is a wake-up call to the profession to develop more inclusive models of theory and practice, and to every counsellor, psychotherapist and counselling psychologist to review their professional practice and ensure a better fit between the aspirations and theories of their professional calling and the needs of our multi-ethnic, multiracial and multicultural society today.Trade Review‘This book speaks of the profound need to address the shortcoming of racial competency in therapeutic training and professional practice… reminding us to challenge exclusion, reflect on our practice and address our own positions of power and privilege.’ – Susan Cousins, author of Overcoming Everyday Racism. ‘In this book are rich resources and practical suggestions that will support and challenge us to open our minds and embrace multicultural ways of thinking and working.’ – Janet Tolan, counsellor/psychotherapist, supervisor, tutor and authorTable of ContentsPreface – Colin Lago and Divine Charura, 1. Race, culture and ethnicity: A systemic failure of attention in the psychotherapy profession? – Colin Lago and Divine Charura, 2. The cultural complexity of training counsellors abroad: The case of Afghanistan – Lucia Berdondini, Ali Ahmad Kaveh and Sandra Grieve, 3. Can you talk about race without going pink or feeling uncomfortable? – Delroy Hall, 4. Exploring the racial self in counselling training – Billie-Claire Wright, 5. An anti-racist counselling training model – Courtland C. Lee, 6. ‘Look in the mirror... and just below the surface’: Critical reflection, personal stories and training implications – Valerie Watson, 7. Where are you from? The effects of racism and perceived discrimination on people of colour – Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, 8. Re-imagining the space and context for a therapeutic curriculum: a sketch – Robert Downes and Foluke Taylor, 9. Twin tribes: Exploring unconscious privilege and otherness in counselling and psychotherapy – Dwight Turner, 10. Lifting the white veil of therapy – Neelam Zahid, 11. The legacy of colonial history and the ongoing challenge to therapist training and practice – Vedia Maharaj, 12. Towards the re-emergence of meaning: Existential contributions to working with refugee clients – Benjamin Mark Butler, 13. Who is transforming what? Ideas and reflections on training, practice and supervision in radical mode – Carmen Joanne Ablack, 14. Negotiating the Faustian pact: A psycho-social approach to working with mixed race people – Yvon Guest, 15. Developing a diversity-sensitive psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy: Personal and professional reflections – Lennox K. Thomas, 16. Colour blindness as microaggression: Perspectives on race and ethnicity in counselling and psychotherapy training and practice – Mark Williams, 17. Towards a decolonised psychotherapy research and practice – Divine Charura and Colin Lago, 18. Religion, therapy and mental health treatment in diverse communities: Some critical reflections and radical propositions – Rachel-Rose Burrell, 19. Race and cognitive dissonance: Could supervision be a way of connecting tutors to students? – Fiona A. Beckford, Postscript

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Book SynopsisNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of the nation. In the US, Black people have poorer health outcomes than white people at every stage of their lives: Black babies are more than twice as likely as white babies to die at birth or in the first year of life; Blacks in every age-group under sixty-five have significantly higher death rates than whites. Racial disparities in healthcare are impossible to ignore, and yet they have never been fully investigated until now. In Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa reveals the elements in the American healthcare system and society that cause Black people to ‘live sicker and die quicker’. Today’s medical texts and instruments still carry slavery-era assumptions that Black bodies are fundamentally different from white bodies. Study after study of medical settings show worse treatment and outcomes for Black patients. Black people live in dirtier, more polluted communities due to environmental racism. And, most powerfully, Villarosa describes how coping with the daily scourge of racism ages Black people prematurely, a phenomenon called weathering. Anchored by human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, Under the Skin is dramatic, tragic, and necessary reading. ‘A searing indictment of a broken health system in the age of American decline.’ New Statesman ‘Villarosa’s empathic and sharp-sighted journalism is as astute as it is groundbreaking, as brilliant as it is timely. Let the conversations begin!’ Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the BoneTrade Review‘Singular and expansive … In this eminently admirable book, there are no easy answers or platitudes.’ -- Kaitlyn Greenidge * The New York Times Book Review *‘A searing indictment of a broken health system in the age of American decline.’ -- Gavin Jacobson * New Statesman *‘Brilliant, illuminating … Meticulously researched, sweeping in its historical breadth, damning in its clear-eyed assessment of facts and yet hopeful in its outlook, Under the Skin is a must-read for all who affirm that Black lives matter.’ -- Jerald Walker * Washington Post *‘[G]ripping, incisive … [Villarosa] deftly pivots between individual cases and studies that demonstrate the widespread obstacles in seeking equal health care for Black people.’ -- Kate Tuttle * The Boston Globe *‘Linda Villarosa, one of our fiercest and most cutting-edge journalists, has given us a classic for the ages. Through engrossing stories of people’s real experiences and her signature rigorous reporting, she reveals the biggest picture in American life — that racism has done us all in, and produced a nation so steeped in white supremacy mythology that we cannot take care of ourselves or each other. This book is a gift, a map, and a necessity, relevant for every reader who wants to understand their own time.’ -- Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show‘Villarosa’s empathic and sharp-sighted journalism is as astute as it is groundbreaking, as brilliant as it is timely. Let the conversations begin!’ -- Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone‘A stunning look at the racial disparities in health outcomes for Black and white Americans … Skilfully interweaving historical and medical facts with empathetic profiles of people who have been affected by HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and other health crises enabled by structural racism, Villarosa delivers a passionate call for equality in the American medical system. The result is an urgent and utterly convincing must-read.’ * Publishers Weekly, starred review *‘It’s no secret that Black people are subject to the cumulative effects of systemic racism. But Linda Villarosa’s Under the Skin walks us through the inevitable consequences of living in a racist country on our bodies, our environments, and our healthcare system. The cultural manifestations of the physical and psychological traumas affecting Black people alter or distort all our lives. Those of us who understand that structural violence has physical ramifications will be in debt to Under the Skin. I am grateful for the arrival of this book. It is a relief to have the truth of racialised trauma exposed in such cogent, undeniable writing and with such genius analysis. This is journalism at its finest. If you read one book this year, let it be this one.’ -- Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: an American lyric‘In Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa has written a book that will transform how you understand the relationship between race and medicine, one that makes clear the connection between our history and our health. This is a book filled with indispensable research, but also filled with humanity. Villarosa tells us important stories, and also becomes part of the story herself. I’m so glad this book exists, I will be thinking about it for a long time.’ -- Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed‘Under the Skin makes a powerful case that the systematic assault on Black Americans’ bodies is unhealthy for the entire nation. Based on decades of cutting-edge investigative reporting, Villarosa shines a fresh spotlight on this urgent crisis and offers a promising path to health equity.’ -- Dorothy Roberts, author Killing the Black Body‘Linda Villarosa’s Under the Skin is a compelling and deeply reported examination of racial disparities in health care, cutting through the dangerous, paralysing, and archaic myths that continue to cloud the vision of medical professionals and policymakers about what is wrong and what needs to change.’ -- Adam Serwer, New York Times bestselling author of The Cruelty Is the Point‘Like COVID, Under The Skin is a powerful indictment of how structural inequalities have permeated the quality of health care delivered to people of colour.’ -- Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Waste‘This powerful, carefully researched book reveals the significant health challenges faced by Black Americans simply due to being Black … Villarosa documents unending examples of social racism, inbred bias, and general neglect, but somehow remains hopeful for change, introducing individuals and programs that are making positive differences. Her thoughtful, personal account raises issues that affect all Americans.’ * Booklist, starred review *‘Remarkable.’ * The New York Times *‘Perhaps one of the most important and thought-provoking publications of the year is Linda Villarosa’s groundbreaking Under the Skin. It’s a stunning exposé of why Black people in our society “live sicker and die quicker” — an eye-opening game changer.’ * Oprah Daily *‘An eye-opening, heartbreaking study of the racism deeply embedded in US medicine and society; critical for any reader interested in racism’s effects on quality of life.’ * Library Journal, starred review *‘A damning account of how race and racism determine the quality and quantity of medical care in the US ... A closely argued case for racial and class equity in health care, revealing a medical regime sorely in need for reform.’ * Kirkus Reviews *‘[M]akes stunning points about the health risks of racism amid moving narratives of real people’s experiences … wonderfully written. It’s not an inaccessible academic work or a polemic. Rather, its points are made amid moving narratives of real people’s experiences. The book also serves as a stake in the ground for Villarosa as she powerfully discloses what years of reporting have led her to understand.’ -- Alden Mudge * BookPage *Praise for Passing for Black: ‘Passing for Black weaves issues of identity and sexuality into an engaging tale of love, passion, and family. Finally the story we’ve been waiting for, delivered in page-turning, finely written prose by one of my favourite writers.’ -- E. Lynn Harris, New York Times bestselling authorPraise for Passing for Black: ‘Passing for Black is a lively page turner that follows the complicated process of coming out as African-American and female and middle-class. It is a sweet, romantic, and sometimes funny tale, brushed nicely with issues of race, class, and sexuality. As Angela tumbles along her journey to self-discovery, I found myself rooting for her to find the way.’ -- Staceyann Chin, poet, activist, and author of The Other Side of Paradise and CrossfirePraise for Career GPS: ‘Career GPS serves as the business coach you never had but always wanted. From getting the job you want to getting noticed for the job you’ve done, you’ll find tangible tips for winning in the new world of work.’ -- Lois P. Frankel, PhD, author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office and See Jane Lead

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Book SynopsisThe author of the acclaimed novel Scarborough weaves an unforgettable and timely dystopian tale about a near-future, where a queer Black performer and his allies join forces to rise up when an oppressive regime gathers those deemed "Other" into concentration camps.Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labour camps.In the shadows, a new hero emerges. After he loses his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh, a headstrong social worker. Guiding them in the use of weapons and close-quarters combat is Beck, a rogue army officer, who helps them plan an uprising at a major televised international event.With her signature "raw yet beautiful, disturbing yet hopeful" (Booklist) prose, Catherine Hernandez creates a vision of the future that is all the more frightening because it is very possible. A cautionary tale filled with fierce and vibrant characters, Crosshairs explores the universal desire to thrive, love, and be loved for being your true self.Trade ReviewCrosshairs is a blistering page-turner. One can describe it as dystopic fiction, but Catherine Hernandez is presenting us with something much more prescient to consider. The novel acts as a provocation and a challenge for readers to locate themselves. Crosshairs offers a glance into a world that is possible if we continue on a trajectory that is frightfully present. Most importantly, Crosshairs asks us what we will do to resist and build a better future when faced with such momentous and dangerous times. * Carianne Leung, award-winning author of That Time I Loved You *Crosshairs is both unnervingly prescient and undeniably profound. A harrowing work that's as much a battle cry as a ballad for the erased, and we should all be listening. * V.E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of A Darker Shade of Magic *Crosshairs leaves readers with two promises. The first is that change is possible. If people with privilege can be motivated to take action against systemic oppression, sould can be saved and lives can be spared. The second promise is that without change, we are hurtling towards disaster. Consider this book a call to action. A demand for change before it's too late. * Quill and Quire *Crosshairs made me shiver. It troubled my dreams. Still, I could not put down this dystopia. It was utterly compelling. Catherine Hernandez prophesies Canadian genocide against Queer, Black, Brown, and Indigenous folks. At the same time, she inspires the reader with her depiction of a resistance full of characters who ? even in the face of hatred and complacency ? show love, pride, endurance, courage, and insist on living to the very last breath. * Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The Illegal and The Book of Negroes *In Crosshairs, Catherine Hernandez shapes a world at once fantastical and familiar, remarkable and relatable . . . The result is a sparkling but devastating novel about corporate and state cruelty, individual as well as community sacrifice, and Queer Black and Brown kinship that must be protected at all costs. Timely, unapologetic, complicated. * Jenny Heijun Wills, award-winning author of Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related *A beautiful, unapologetic, and unwatered-down...dystopian [novel] that holds a sobering mirror up to our own world * New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu *Every character has a moment to tell their story. Hernandez delivers beautiful and heartbreaking scenes in a story that is hard especially because of how close it feels to our present. * Booklist *Catherine Hernandez is groundbreaking. Her talent is remarkable. I dare you not to cry or scream or marvel or, like me, do all at once while reading this book. This story is a masterpiece of voice and metaphor, image and embodiment. But it is also a perfectly crafted portrait of us now, of us then, of the us we hope to be. I love this book, this big, bright missive that not only breaks the ground, but that gifts us with the steps to take in order to get to the other side, together. * Cherie Dimaline, bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves and Empire of Wild *Hernandez is unrelenting in her portrayal of the regular violence, assault and abuses faced by these Otherized people in 'civil societies.' She excels in her ability to show the ease of even the most brazen fascism and the pervasiveness of the feelings and scenarios that elicit its subsequent rise. * USA Today *Hernandez's storytelling throughout is compelling, and she builds tension and intrigue as the story moves forward, leaving the reader ravenous for the outcome. . . A rare and wonderful and formidable feat. * Letticia Cosbert Miller, The Toronto Star *Catherine Hernandez's sharp-eyed, queer dystopian fantasy is no gentle wake-up call. It is a blaring fire alarm and a call to arms against authoritarianism, white supremacy, and transphobia. * BookPage *

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Book SynopsisThe global Black Lives Matter campaign has given greater exposure to the extent and insidious nature of the structural and systemic racism that exists in all strata of our society and has provided renewed impetus to the urgent need to challenge and eradicate racism in all its forms and wherever it is found. Sadly, sport has not been immune from this, especially so in the case of football. For too long, there were attempts to hide and mitigate racist attitudes and actions within the game, but thanks to the growing profile and visibility of black and minority ethnic (BAME) players both past and present – Viv Anderson, Cyrille Regis, Jimmy Carter, Les Ferdinand, Pat Nevin and Ruud Gullit to name just a few – and almost three decades of education and campaigning led by Kick It Out, attitudes have changed. However, now is not the time to be complacent – there’s still a great deal left to do. Throughout his entire journalistic career, leading sportswriter Harry Harris has championed the fight against racism in football. Now, within these pages, he shines a timely spotlight on the Beautiful Game, revealing the forces within football that have both helped expose and challenge racism – and, at times, sadly, hinder more rapid positive change. Over the years, Harris has gathered an impressively large network of contacts within the game – players, managers, media pundits and association personnel among them. Many of them, such as Greg Dyke, Glenn Hoddle, Ivor Baddiel, Mek Stein, and Jermain Defoe, have spoken exclusively to Harris for this book. Red Card to Racism is not only a welcome addition to the ongoing debate surrounding ending prejudice within football but also a timely and necessary addition to the wider discussion of the need within our evermore global multicultural society for all people, whatever their beliefs, gender, identity, sexuality or ethnic background, to be treated with equity, humanity and respect.Trade Review"This book has an impressive amount of detail with the range of interviews conducted. It also excels at covering the range of different viewpoints within football at combating racism. Even though things have improved this book shows that there is still a long, long way to go." * Netgalley 5* review *“A fascinating and absorbing book - which catalogues succinctly and impactfully an alarming quantity of incidents which illustrate just how much work’s to be done before we can eradicate racism from football…. And society.” * Simon Pryde, BBC Total Sport *

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Book SynopsisIn this third iteration of the classic work The Impacts of Racism on White Americans (1981, 1996), a new generation of scholars make the case that racism often negatively affects Whites themselves, especially during the Trump era. In 1981, Impacts introduced an alternative understanding of racism, arguing that it went beyond white-black and/or inter-race relations. Instead, the book proposed that the problem of race in the U.S. is fundamentally one of white identity and culture and that racism has substantial negative effects on White Americans. This volume advances these propositions through three key areas: (1) Trump-era cultural and institutional racism, bolstered by the use of historical notions of racial hierarchy; (2) institutional and interpersonal racism, which in turn drive individual racist behaviors; and finally, (3) racism’s interactional sequences and how they impact anti-racism efforts. As each chapter author explores an iteration of these racisms, they also explore how racist attitudes produce disadvantage among White Americans. Table of Contents1. Introduction. Impacts of Racism on White Americans in the Age of Trump (Benjamin P. Bowser and Duke W. Austin).- 2. Economy: Racism’s Continuing Costs to Whites: A Second Look (Michael Reich).- 3. Housing: From Segregation to Isolation: White Americans in the Age of Trump (Jacob S. Rugh).- 4. Health: Dying of Whiteness (Jonathan M. Metzl).- 5. Government: Calling on Racism to Run Federal and State Governments (Robert Fantina).- 6. Foreign Policy: A Double-Edged Sword: A History of Racism in U.S. Foreign Policy (Chris Danielson).- 7. Gender: White Women in the Age of Trump (Charlotte Dunham).- 8. Social Psychology: Taking White Racial Emotions Seriously: Revisiting the Cost of Racism to White Americans (Lisa Spanierman and D. Anthony Clark).- 9. Media: Fox News, Racism, and White America in the Age of Trump (Kalemba Kizito).- 10. Sports: Racism and Sports: Fear of a Black Planet (Scott N. Brooks, Stacey M. Flores, and Jorge Ballesteros).- 11. Education: The Impact of Racism on White Teachers (Patricia A. Maloney).- 12. Social Movements: White Responses to Racist and Anti-Racist Movements (Pamela Oliver).- 13. Affirmative Action: Not the Impact of Racism on Whites that Some Assume (Fred L. Pincus).- 14. Summary: Racism’s Impacts on White Americans in the Age of Trump (Benjamin P. Bowser and Duke W. Austin).- 15. Conclusion and Reflections: Impacts of Racism in the Age of Trump (Benjamin P. Bowser and Duke W. Austin).

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Book SynopsisBehold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same for over a century: a uniquely rarified public space of cool stone, providing an experience of leisure and education for the general public while carefully tending fragile artifacts from distant lands. As questions about representation and ethics have increasingly arisen, these institutions have proclaimed their interest in diversity and responsible conservation, asserting both their adaptability and their immovably essential role in a flourishing and culturally rich society.With Decolonize Museums, Shimrit Lee punctures this fantasy, tracing the essentially colonial origins of the concept of the museum. White Europeans’ atrocities were reimagined through narratives of benign curiosity and abundant respect for the occupied or annihilated culture, and these racist narratives, Lee argues, remain integral to the authority exercised by museums today. Citing pop culture references from Indiana Jones to Black Panther, and highlighting crucial activist campaigns and legal action to redress the harms perpetrated by museums and their proxies, Decolonize Museums argues that we must face a dismantling of these seemingly eternal edifices, and consider what, if anything, might take their place.Trade Review“Shimrit Lee’s provocative and lucid book is part-investigative report where the museum resembles a crime scene and part-polemic that grapples with what it would look like to upend the current ways in which museums are organized and function. Lee makes the convincing argument that museums must fall, and it is time we start taking this imperative seriously.” — Sean Jacobs, founder and editor of Africa Is a Country and author of Media in Postapartheid South Africa“This book takes us through, and far beyond, the museum as a contested space, raising urgent and complex questions about its future. Through her historically insightful and comprehensive take down, Shimrit Lee asks us to reconceptualize the museum in its entirety. She tears down the facade that museums were ever neutral, tracing their role in shaping, and perpetuating, structures of racial capitalism. Lee shows us that decolonizing museums revolves around creating an expansive sense of justice that moves us beyond its walls. Getting it right, she reminds us, means nothing less than liberation for us all.” — Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor of Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University and author of Black Bodies, White Gold "... in-depth research, which interrogates the foundations of museum and curatorial principles, makes Decolonize Museums an abundant read—it should be stocked in every museum gift shop worldwide." —Full-Stop

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Book SynopsisIn The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students'' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a host of racial and ethnic minority youth in schools, including Black Caribbean young people in London and New York City.Since the 1920s, Black Caribbeans in New York have been considered a high-achieving Black model minority. Conversely, since the 1950s, Black Caribbeans in London have been regarded as a chronically underachieving minority. In both contexts, however, it is often suggested that Caribbean culture informs their status, whether as a celebrated minority in the US or as a demoted minority in Britain.Drawing on rich observations, interviews and archives in London and New York City schools, Wallace suggests that the use of culture to justify Black Caribbean students'' achievement Trade ReviewThis is an important contribution to our understanding of how discourses and practices of racial representation work to shape and perpetuate ethnic inequalities in our schools. Wallace's comparative ethnography of schools in London and New York offers a unique insight into how ideas of culture and identity are formed historically and politically, and how these are lived by those caught in the trap of ethnic expectations. With a sharp eye for detail and an ear for the voices of young people, teachers, and parents, Wallace breathes new life into an old, and seemingly intractable, problem. * Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology, The University of Manchester *Cultural explanations of the achievement gap, such as culturally responsive and culturally relevant pedagogy, are popular within schools, colleges, and universities. This visionary, timely, engaging, and informative book describes the limits of cultural explanations and how culture, class, and context interact to influence academic achievement. It is a compelling and essential read. * James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle *The Culture Trap exemplifies the beauty of cross-national research by deftly illuminating both the general and the particular of social forces across contexts. Wallace sharpens our understanding of the ways that different racial formations in the U.S. and Britain intersect with ethnic and class identity of Black Caribbean youth and permeate the walls of schools and classrooms. It's a compelling ethnography of the everyday lived experiences of second-generation immigrant students, which illuminates how 'ethnic expectations' influence their educational well-being. Many scholars and teachers of culture, race, ethnicity, and education will appreciate the informative, useful nature of Wallace's work. * Prudence L. Carter, Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology, Brown University *Derron Wallace has written a field-defining book. Comparing Black Caribbeans in London and New York, he shows how ethnic expectations, rooted in history, colonialism, and the proliferation of U.S. media culture, influence the incorporation and academic outcomes of second-generation Black Caribbean youth. Bursting with rich narrative accounts, powerful theoretical insights, and exceptional writing, this book will shape the sociology and education discourse on Black Caribbean students for years to come. Everyone who cares about race, ethnicity, education, and immigration should read this book. * John B. Diamond, Professor of Sociology and Education Policy, Brown University *How to explain the markedly different educational experiences and levels of achievement of African-Caribbean youth in London and New York? Conceptual clarity alongside careful listening to the voices of Black youth, parents, and teachers is at the heart of Derron Wallace's timely and thoughtful analysis of the 'ethnic expectations' which serve as an alibi for racisms and reinforce inequalities. * Catherine Hall, Chair of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, University College London *This fascinating book takes us into two schools—one in New York City and one in London—where teachers use cultural narratives on the essential elements of Caribbean heritage towards very different goals—to highlight Black students' endless talents and possibilities in one setting and to stress the limited potential of Black adolescents in another. Beautifully written, gripping, and deeply interesting, The Culture Trap sheds new light on the mechanisms through which inequality is sustained. Highly recommended! * Annette Lareau, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania *This brave, brilliant book takes no hostages. Beautifully evocative and richly theorized, The Culture Trap sets out a compelling argument for why culture should not be prioritized over structure in understandings of educational achievement. Weaving wonderful ethnographic narratives with stunning insights, the book brings a welcome clarity to the messy and highly contested morass that culture has become. For much needed illumination, this is the book to read—it is both an enormous pleasure and a revelation. * Diane Reay, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge *The Culture Trap is a wonderful contribution to the comparative analysis of the ways in which black youth have been the subject of unequal schooling. Through a nuanced and detailed analysis, Wallace illustrates how black Caribbean youth have been subjected to persistent and deeply embedded unequal treatment in the school systems of the UK and US. * John Solomos, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick *The Culture Trap is an insightful study of the experiences of Afro-Caribbean youth in New York City and London schools. Wallace's careful look at how schools create 'culture traps' through essentializing ethnic expectations of their Afro-Caribbean students is sure to become an instant classic. The book demonstrates how positive expectations go hand in hand with negative expectations, and how the history of colonialism shapes ethnic stereotypes in the US and Britain. Beyond the school, Wallace also shows how students themselves respond to the ethnic expectations they experience. Never reductive, Wallace uses 'storytelling sociology,' providing a vivid and convincing account of the lived experiences of the communities he observed, with deep respect, care, and curiosity. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in immigration, education, and the African diaspora. * Natasha Warikoo, Professor of Sociology, Tufts University *Findings from this study are important...I highly recommend this book to all but especially to educators in teacher preparation programs, preservice teachers, educators in the field, and educational policymakers and leaders in both the United States and Britain. * Mercy Agyepong, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *This book demonstrates a high calibre of authorship and scholarship, which audiences within the field of education, teaching, and learning will find informative for their practice, as I myself have. * Steve Raven, Institute of Global Education, Coventry University/Trustee of British Sociological Association *Wallace does a good job of demonstrating that expectations regarding culture can affect outcomes...Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: The Power of the Culture Trap Part I: Constructing the Culture Trap 1. Model and Failing Minorities? Divergent Representations of Black Caribbean Achievement 2. Black Caribbean Immigrants and the Legacies of Empire 3. Tracking Structures and Cultures: The Role of Academic 'Ability' Grouping Part II: Negotiating the Culture Trap 4. Distinctiveness and the Secret Life of Social Class in Representations of Culture 5. Deference and the Gendered Rewards of 'Good' Behavior 6. Defiance and Black Students' Resistance to Cultural Racism Conclusion: Dismantling the Culture Trap in Schools Appendix: Organizing Methods for Ethnographic Fieldwork Notes About the Author References Index

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Book Synopsis''The story [Onyeama] had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn''t let me go . . . A remarkably well-written memoir'' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionDillibe was the second black boy to study at Eton - joining in 1965 - and the first to complete his education there. Written at just 21, this is a deeply personal, revelatory account of the racism he endured during his time as a student at the prestigious institution. He tells in vivid detail of his own background as the son of a Nigerian judge at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, of his arrival at the school, of the curriculum, of his reception by other boys (and masters), and of his punishments. He tells, too, of the cruel racial prejudice and his reactions to it, and of the alienation and stereotyping he faced at such a young age. A Black Boy at Eton is a searing, ground-breaking book displaying the deep psychological effects of colonialism and racism.<Trade Review[A] frank and reflective memoir . . . An important story to tell * The Guardian *[An] electrifying memoir . . . I started reading, and the story he had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn't let me go . . . Dillibe Onyeama's story about landing in the hostile environment of Eton College is a personal one, but the questions it raises have much wider repercussions -- Bernardine Evaristo * New Statesman *A powerful insider account of systemic racism inside Eton during the sixties * Bustle *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award in Education Theory and Practice, Association of American Publishers""In this important book, Gasman (Rutgers Univ.) takes a closer look at problematic hiring practices at the 62 member institutions of the Association of American Universities (AAU). Written in a conversational style, her book draws on countless interviews she conducted with faculty and administrators at the nation’s leading universities. . . . Though written with AAU institutions in mind, the practical advice Gasman offers should also be applied in all other higher education contexts. Only then will there be a noticeable and much-needed change in faculty hiring across the country and thus a true commitment to inclusive excellence."---G. Thuswaldner, Choice"Although it is a difficult task to speak to and appease such broad audiences, by placing professors’ engagement with DEI efforts as constitutive of their job as professors, Doing the Right Thing’s use of a wide lens convincingly shows how investments in elite affiliations are part of defending a White professoriate. To this end, Gasman impressively combines quantitative and qualitative data to support her argument and provides a benchmark for future debates on DEI in higher education."---prahdeep singh kehal, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Book SynopsisA sweeping, magisterial work of abolitionist feminist political theoryTrade Review'In Become Ungovernable, H.L.T. Quan offers us possibilities for rescuing the concept of democracy from its fatal entanglement with racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism. This phenomenal text urges us to seek radical democratic futures, not in more equitable modes of governance, but rather in revolutionary community-making practices - especially those emanating from anti-racist and abolition feminist traditions.' -- Angela Y. Davis'Quite simply a brilliant, original, and capacious work of political theory anchored in an erudite analysis of core concepts like representative democracy, democratic elitism, authoritarianism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, justice, and governance. A compelling and inspiring book that belongs in our movements and our classrooms.' -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of 'Feminism Without Borders, Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity''An elegantly written masterpiece that covers a breathtaking amount of intellectual, political, and geographic territory: from the pre-Civil War American South to rebellions in northern China to the Zapatista experiment in Chiapas, Mexico. Building on a vast body of feminist, Black radical, and abolitionist literature, H.L.T. Quan calls for a feminist ethic of care as a guiding principle for the future, rejecting state-centered solutions as non-solutions to our collective longing for freedom and free spaces.' -- Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, longtime activist, author of 'Making All Black Lives Matter''A masterpiece expression of H.L.T. Quan's lifework. Reflecting analytical, theoretical, and creative insights cultivated through 25+ years as a documentary filmmaker and several decades as one of the most careful, uncompromising, thoughtful critical caretakers of the living Black radical archive conceptualized by the late, great Cedric Robinson, this book is a gift to all who are serious about the conjoined tasks of abolition and liberation.' -- Dylan Rodrguez, University of California at Riverside, founding member of Critical Resistance and Cops Off Campus'An unruly book. Leaping across broad swaths of time and space, H.L.T. Quan exposes the prison house of liberal antidemocracy and the accumulation of rebellions inside in order to construct a theory of democracy as radical praxis. "Democratic living," as she calls it, refuses the tyranny of order, embraces the unruliness of collective struggle, and recognizes freedom not as a destination but practicean abolitionist, feminist, anticapitalist, antiracist, radically inclusive practice. In other words, to preserve life and break liberalism's hold, we have to make a living. Quan shows us a way.' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Antidemocracy in America 1. Against Tyranny: An Introduction 2. The Myth of White Autarky 3. Democratic Thought and the Unthinkable 4. Love of Freedom: Jeffersonian Antidemocracy and the Politics of Governing 5. The Empty Sounds of Liberty Part II: Life Beyond Governing 6. From Home Politicus to Robo Sapiens: An Interlude 7. iLife and Death: The New/Old Capitalist Algorithm 8. Governments Reform, People Revolt 9. Speculative Justice and the Politics of Mutuality 10. Toward a Democratic Ethic of Living

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Book SynopsisA GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF THE YEAR''A jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book'' Sunday Times''A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family, secrets, lies and ultimately betrayal, by a very gifted storyteller'' GuardianGeorgina Lawton was born to two white parents. Despite her brown skin, her racial identity was never spoken of in her childhood home. The truth only began to emerge when her beloved father died. Fleeing the shattered pieces of her family life, Georgina went in search of answers - a search that took her around the world, to the DNA testing industry and to talk to others whose identities had been questioned or erased.How do you come to terms with a family history tangled in deceit? And how do you define yourself after a childhood that denied a crucial part of your identity?Trade ReviewA jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book * The Times *A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family, secrets, lies and ultimately betrayal, by a very gifted storyteller -- Gary Younge * Guardian *An extraordinary debut * Daily Mirror *Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growing up mixed race . . . and she writes beautifully about questions of identity and belonging, so central to each of us in finding our particular place in the world * New York Times *Georgina Lawton's Raceless is an absolutely riveting read, not just as a poignant and eye opening memoir but as a nuanced and crucial dissection of race as a construct. She writes so movingly and powerfully about her experiences - I have no doubt this will be one of the books of this year -- Yomi Adegoke * co-author of Slay in Your Lane *A beautifully written account of an extraordinary story, Raceless is as eye-opening as it is profound -- Otegha Uwagba * author of Little Black Book *Lawton builds a strong story around her attainment of emotional balance and her quest for identity and belonging. At turns revelatory and profound, this memoir sings * Publishers Weekly *Compelling * Cosmopolitan *This is a compelling, incisive and important memoir; both intimate and political -- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller *Fascinating * i *Heart-rending and poignant . . . Georgina's story is painfully illuminating but a triumphant journey of self-discovery -- Florence Olajide * author of Coconut *This book is a masterpiece; functioning both as a beautifully-written memoir and sensitive, highly-researched text unpacking the realities of race as a social construct and as a powerful influence on the lives of black people. It is an invaluable read for any person with an interest in race issues in the UK, but especially black and black mixed race people, who so often haven't been given the space to tell their stories. Georgina Lawton is a true talent and while some parts of her story are mired in pain, upon finishing Raceless you'll only be left with optimism for her future as a writer, thinker and commentator -- Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, Editor-in-Chief * gal-dem magazine *A beautiful heart-expanding memoir, a truly unforgettable reading experience that will stay with me for a long time -- Emma Gannon * author of Olive *An incredibly moving and honest account of self discovery. I found myself weeping at the ways Georgina described grieving for a parent on top of navigating the realisation that her origin story was vastly different from the story she had been told. It isn't often that you come across a story like hers and with every page it felt as though she was letting us in a little bit deeper. What a stunning debut! -- Liv Little * gal-dem founder *Georgina is such a passionate, engaging writer, and I think Raceless is going to be absolutely huge -- Jenny Colgan * author of Sunrise by the Sea *

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Book SynopsisThis new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments, curricula, classes, and artistic settings.Antiracism in Ballet Teaching gives readers a wealth of options for addressing and dismantling racialized biases in ballet teaching, as well as in approaches to leadership and choreography. Chapters are organized into three sections - Identities, Pedagogies, and Futurities - that illuminate evolving approaches to choreographing and teaching ballet, shine light on artists, teachers, and dancers who are lesser known/less visible in a racialized canon, and amplify the importance of holistic practices that integrate ballet history with technique and choreography. Chapter authors include award-winning studio owners, as well as acclaimed choreographers, educators, and sTable of ContentsPart 1: Identities1. Teaching for Tomorrow Gabrielle Salvatto 2. Perspective––Dionne Figgins3. Perspective–––––Lourdes Lopez 4. Native American dancers beyond settler colonial confines Kate Mattingly5. Reflections on Quare Dance Alyah Baker Part 2: Pedagogies 6. Classical Perspectives: Performance, Pedagogy, and (Changing) CulturesAnjali Austin7. Dear Ballet Teachers, Let’s Talk About Race Ilana Goldman and Paige Cunningham8. Making space – inclusive and equitable teaching practices for ballet in higher education Alana Isiguen9. Dismantling anti-Blackness Maurya Kerr 10. ReCentering the Studio: Ballet Leadership and Learning Through Intersectional and Antiracist Approaches Renée K. Nicholson and Lisa DeFrank-Cole 11. Credibility and Expertise: Black Women Teaching Classical Ballet Monica Stephenson12. Adjusting pedagogies for developing artists: age-appropriate classes for classical ballet Misa Oga13. Ballet as Artistic, Scientific, and Existential Inquiry: Incorporating Ballet’s Broader History in a Syllabus and in the Studio Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson14. Dive In Keesha Beckford) Part 3: Futurities15. A willingness to shed Sidra Bell 16. Honoring the Legacy of Antiracist Ballet Teaching & Leadership in Black and Brown Dance Organizations Iyun Ashani Harrison17. Ballet’s Ever-Present Presence Thomas F. DeFrantz 18. Twelve Steps to Ballet’s Cultural Recovery Theresa Ruth Howard 19. Creating New Spaces: Today’s Black Choreographers Brandye Lee 20. Ballet’s Futurities––Insights from Choreographers, Scholars, and Educators

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Book SynopsisA compelling, surprising new show that turns a spotlight onto Britain's missing histories. Dedicated to the Black Men's Walking Group.Thomas, Matthew and Richard walk.They walk the first Saturday of every month. Walking and talking.But this walkMaybe they should have cancelled, but they needed the walk today. Out in the Peaks, they find themselves forced to walk backwards through two thousand years before they can move forwards.Trade ReviewMixing poetry and politics, this is a stirring piece that suggests there is no situation that cannot be changed * Guardian *…this is an original and penetrating piece * Financial Times *Powerful, political, lyrical… Testament’s writing is linguistically dazzling, full of punchy humour and poetic charm * The Stage *As poetic as it is potent * WhatsOnStage *

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