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3) The boxer
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny. A 17 year old feeling isolated and disconnected in the city he's just moved to, Sunny joins a boxing club to learn to protect himself after a racist attack. He finds the community he's been desperately seeking at the club, and a mentor in trainer Shobu, who helps him find his place in the world. But racial tensions are rising in the city, and when...
Series
Issues volume 308
Publisher
Independence
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
This text looks at prejudice and discrimination encountered by people belonging to different racial, ethnic and religious groups, multiculturalism in Britain, and ways in which discrimination can be tackled.
Series
Issues volume 236
Publisher
Independence Educational Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This text looks at prejudice and discrimination encountered by people belonging to different racial, ethnic and religious groups, multiculturalism in Britain, and ways in which discrimination can be tackled.
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
'The Louder I Will Sing' is a powerful, compelling and uplifting memoir about growing up in modern Britain as a young black man. It's a story both of people and politics, of the underlying racism beneath many of our most important institutions, but also the positive power that hope, faith and love can bring in response.
11) The sellout
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens?on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles?the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
David Olusoga's 'Black and British' is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals,...
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the rush to address inequality and prejudice, and to understand concerns around identity, immigration and colonial history, Britain has followed the lead of the world's dominant power: America. We judge ourselves by America's standards, absorb its arguments and follow its agenda. But what if we're looking in the wrong place? This is Not America is built on the idea that black Britons are British first and foremost, and thus are likely to have more...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. Linda Hairston is the daughter of one of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration. She has been taught all her life that the races should be kept 'separate but equal.' Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah...
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 15
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
New pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Ben Corbett is a brilliant young lawyer in early-20th century Washington DC. One day, out of the blue, he receives a private invitation to the White House. President Theodore Roosevelt has personally selected Ben to help him investigate rumours of lynchings & a re-emergence of the outlawed Ku Klux Klan in Ben's hometown of Eudora.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful and provocative argument on the role that race and racism play in modern Britain, by award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'. Her words hit a nerve. The...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
[New edition] /
Language
English
Description
In 'Caste', Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, she reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations, and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval...
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