Please let us know if you have any recommendations to add to this list. We will be regularly updating it with new recommendations.
BOOKS

What’s on Wen’s book shelf
Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Think like a White Man by Dr Boule Whytelaw III
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What White People can do Next by Emma Dabiri
White Women, Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
Books to help you understand & fight white supremacy
This is an Australian book company, but well worth looking at their recommendations.
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Anti-Racist Starter Kit:
- Stamped from the Beginning – Ibram X Kendi
- A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn (There is a “young people’s” version for elementary and middle school readers)
- White Fragility – Robin Diangelo
- So you want to talk about race – Ijeoma Oluo
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
- Me and White Supremacy – Layla F Saad
- Stamped – Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Anti Racist List Black LGBTQ+:
- Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
- Zami – Audre Lorde
- Real Life – Brandon Taylor
- Unapologetic A black, queer, and feminist Mandate for Radical Movements – Charlene A Carruthers
- No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies – E. Patrick Johnson
- Since I Laid My Burden Down – Brontez Purnell
- The Other Side of Paradise – Staceyann Chin
- No Ashes in the Fire – Darnell L. Moore
- The Summer We Got Free – Mia McKenzie
- Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
- Rising Out of Hatred – Eli Saslow
- Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity – C. Riley Snorton
Anti-Racist Lit; Bios, Non-fiction, novels, personal narratives:
- The Warmth of Other Sons – Isabel Wilkerson
- The Fire Next time – James Baldwin
- Malcolm X – Alex Haley
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Killing Rage Ending Racism – bell hooks
- Becoming – Michelle Obama
- An American By Marriage – Tayari Jones
- A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota –
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
- The Myth Of Race – Robert Sussman
- Anti-Racist Lit – Black Feminism:
- How we Get Free – Keeanga-Yamhtta Taylor
- Black Feminists Thought – Patricia Hill Collins
- Ain’t I a Woman Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks
- Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
- Eloquent Rage – Brittney Cooper
- In Search of Our Mothers Gardens – Alice Walker
- Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
- Women Race & Class – Angela Y Davis
- Assata: An Autobiography – Assata Shakur
- To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe – Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande
Anti-Racist Intermediate Kit:
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America – Anders Walker
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
- The Condemnation of Blackness – Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Dying of Whiteness – Jonathan Metzl
- A Different Mirror – Ronald Takaki
- How to be an AntiRacist – Ibram X Kendi
- How the South Won the Civil War – Heather Cox Richardson
- Evicted – Matthew Desmond
- Nobody – Marc Lamont Hill
- Lies My Teacher Told Me – James W Loewen
- Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria – Berver Doniel Tatum, PhD
- The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein
- Blackballed – Darryl Pinkney
RESOURCES & TOOLS
RESOURCES & TOOLS REGARDING RACISM & ANTI/BLACKNESS & How to be a Better Ally
This 1 pager includes links to articles, books, petitions, podcasts, films and resources for teachers. Compiled by Tatum Dorrell, Matt Herndon, Jourdan Dorrell.
GET RESOURCESUK EDUCATIONAL ANTI-RACIST EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
This google doc contains info on organisations and campaigns to support. Books, including children’s books, documentaries and talks, films, articles, podcasts, courses. Compiled by S. Adetoro @msadetoro
GET RESOURCESBLACK HISTORY MONTH LIBRARY
This extensive library of resources includes black feminism, film, newspapers, speeches and more. Folders with information about Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks to name just a few.
GET RESOURCESPODCASTS

ABOUT RACE WITH RENI EDDO-LODGE
From the author behind the bestselling Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (http://renieddolodge.co.uk/books/) comes a podcast that takes the conversation a step further.
Featuring key voices from the last few decades of anti-racist activism, About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge looks at the recent history that lead to the politics of today.
Join the conversation using the hashtag #AboutRacewithReni
CODE SWITCH
What’s CODE SWITCH? It’s the fearless conversations about race that you’ve been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of colour the podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. Exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between.
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NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG WOMEN
Life, love and work in a white man’s world. Two women discuss what it’s like being British woman of colour in the UK today and all their experiences.
listenINTERSECTIONALITY MATTERS
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.


SOOO MANY WHITE GUYS
Sooo Many White Guys is a podcast hosted by Phoebe Robinson as a response to the predominance of white males in comedy, the podcast features guests who are mostly non-white, non-males. The podcast hosts women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community.
THE YIKES PODCAST
Do you ever find yourself saying ‘YIKES’ about things happening in the world? Climate Change, Human Rights and the messiness of everything going on at the moment can be really overwhelming BUT Mikaela Loach and Jo Becker want to provide a space to chat about these things and find hope in the midst of it all.

FILMS & TV
- 13th
- Queen Sugar
- Hidden Figures
- Just Mercy
- The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
- Malcolm X
- Do the Right Thing
- Selma
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Fruitvale Station
- Queen & Slim
- Get Out
- Blindspotting

IZZY METCALF, VOLUNTEER
Izzy has been busy curating and posting our #WenRecommends series on Instagram stories on Wednesdays. Izzy is a student at Lancaster University.