Great power lies in education, in listening, in learning, in understanding. Together we can reduce bias, encourage inclusion, and work to eliminate racism.
Below, the team at Learnerbly have contributed resource links to share with our wider community. We hope these resources further awareness of racism and educate people on how they can be better, how they can help, and how they can speak out against racism. We will add relevant resources as they come to our attention.
Free Online Resources
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- Anti-racist Guide For Beginners
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion": Peggy McIntosh at TEDx
- “Unless you consciously include, you will unconsciously exclude”: An interview with Stephen Frost
- Mona Chalabi - An artist who creates educational graphics highlighting racial injustice among other issues
- “What works: Evidence-Based Ideas to Increase Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace’
- AORTA | Resources, Dismantling Anti-Black Bias in Democratic Workplaces: A Toolkit
- Intersectionality Matters! on Apple Podcasts
- About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge - podcast
Books
*We encourage everyone to seek out local independent bookstores which are often capable of delivery and should have supplies of the titles below. Links to Amazon/Waterstones/Etc. have been provided.*
New Beacon Books - New Beacon Books was founded in 1966 by John La Rose and his partner Sarah White and was the UK’s first black publisher, specialist bookshop and international book distributor.
- Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - Akala
- Black and British: A Forgotten History - David Olusoga
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
- How to Argue with a Racist - Adam Rutherford
- Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Good Immigrant - 21 writers explore what it means to be Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic in Britain today - Nikesh Shukla
- Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - Afua Hirsch
- Don’t Touch My Hair - Emma Dabiri
- The Black Jacobins - CLR James
- Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
- Another Country - James Baldwin
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Native Son - Richard Wright
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
- Europe and the People Without History - Eric Wolf
- Sweetness and Power - Sidney Mintz
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X and Alex Haley
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