• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The First Man by Albert Camus
• The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
• A Son of the Circus by John Irving
• Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
• Crippled: Austerity and the Demonisation of Disabled People by Frances Ryan
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway
• Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kussisto
• Elegy for a Disease:  A Personal and Cultural History of Polio and Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection by Anne Finger
• The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• Sebastian by Christoph Fischer
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's  by John Elder Robison 
• Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
• House Rules by Jodi Picoult
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience by Eileen Cronin
• Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's by Thomas DeBaggio

• Taking up Space by Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi
• My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud
• Difficult Women by Helen Lewis
• Skint Estate by Cash Carraway
• Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
• I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú and Elisabeth Burgos-Debray
• Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines by Domitila B. De Chungara
• Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
• Washing the Dust From Our Hearts edited by The Afghan Women's Writing Project
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
• Freedom by Margaret Atwood
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (short edition) by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Second Sex (short edition) by Simone de Beauvoir
• The Beauty Myth (short edition) by Naomi Wolf
• The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson
• Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort
• Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
• The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
• Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
• Eleanor and Hick, the Love Affair that Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
• Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identify, Faith, andFamily by Garrard Conley
• The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
• On Being Different: What it Means to be a Homosexual by Merle Miller
• The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
• The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
• Gender Outlaw, on Men, Women and the Rest of us by Kate Bornstein
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
• The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
• Stung with Love by Sappho
• How to Survive a Summer by Nick White
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• Believe Me by Eddie Izzard
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
• De Profundis and Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
• The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
• My Two Moms by Zach Wahls
• The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis
• In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• Gentrification of the Mind: The Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
• Speak its Name! Quotations by and about gay men and women 
• Tales of the City by Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr
• LGBT People and the UK Cultural Sector: The Response of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Heritage since 1950 by John Vincent
• Rory’s Boys by Alan Clark
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Race by Toni Morrison
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• To Sir, With Love by ER Braithwaite
• Colour Bar by Susan Williams
• The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
• They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Introducing George the Poet by George the Poet
• Home Going by Yaa Gyasi
• Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
• The Emperor’s Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
• Changing my Mind by Zadie Smith
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
• The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois
• What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
• Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
• Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair by Lisa Jones
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• War to Windrush: Black Women in Britain 1939 to 1948 by Stephen Bourne
• High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney
• The Empire of Progress: West Africans, Indians, and Britons at the British Empire Exhibition 1924-5 by Daniel Stephen

Critical race theory: An introduction, Delgado, R. & Stefancic, J. (2012). NYU Press.

Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 11, no. 1: 7–24, Ladson-Billings, G. (1998)

Critical Race Theory, Rollock, N. & Gillborn, D. (2011). 

• The Sugarcoated Language of White Fragility, The Huffington Post Blog by Kegler, A. (2016)
• The unexamined whiteness of teaching: How white teachers maintain and enact dominant racial ideologies. Race Ethnicity and Education 12 (2), 197–215, Picower, B. (2009)
• Wildman, S.M., with A.D. Davis. 1997. Making systems of privilege visible. In Critical White Studies: Looking behind the mirror, ed. R. Delgado and J. Stefancic, 314–19. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press
• The Noughts and Crosses series, Blackman, M (2002-2006).
• White Privilege: The myth of a post-racial society by Bhopal Kalwant (2018) 

• Aiming Higher: Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy, London: Runnymede Trust Alexander, C. & Arday, J. (2015) (Eds) 
• Universities do not challenge racism says UK’s first Black Studies Professor, The Guardian, Andrews, K. (2016)
• An apartheid of knowledge in academia: The struggle over the “legitimate” knowledge of faculty of color. Equity & Excellence in Education 35 (2), 169–80 Delgado, B.D., and O. Villalpando. 2002.
• Academic flight: how to encourage black and minority ethnic academics to stay in UK higher education ECU (2015)
• The experiences of international staff in UK higher education ECU (2013)
• Letter to my Unborn Daughter, My career in the academy – reasons for my mental breakdown, Rollock, N. (2016), in G. Ladson-Billings & W. Tate (Eds) Covenant Keeper: Derrick Bell’s Enduring Education Legacy, New York: Peter Lang
• Unspoken rules of engagement: navigating racial microaggressions in the academic terrain. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 25 (5), 517-532, Rollock, N. (2011)
• White Fragility: Why its so hard for white people to talk about racism, Diangelo Robin (2018)

‘I too’ student campaigns:

• Harvard
• Birmingham
• Cambridge
• Oxford and the blacklash recieved

• Embodying diversity: Problems and paradoxes for black feminists. Race Ethnicity and Education 12, (1) 41–52 Ahmed, S. (2009)
• When racism and masculinity collide: some methodological considerations from a Man of Colour studying Whiteness, Whiteness & Education, 1 (1), 15-25Cabrera, N. (2016)
• White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women’s studies. In Critical white studies: Looking behind the mirror, McIntosh, P. (1997) ed. R. Delgado and J. Stefancic, 291–9. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press
• Race, Class and the ‘Harmony of Dispositions’, Sociology, 48 (3), pp445-451, Rollock, N. (2014)

• Why White People Shouldn’t Impose Their Feelings Into Conversations on Race, Collins, S. (2017), Everyday Feminism Online Magazine
• The Colourblind Doctrine, Edusi, C. (2014), MediaDiversified
• Pedagogy of fear: Toward a Fanonian theory of ‘safety’ in race dialogue. Race Ethnicity and Education 13, no. 2: 139–58 ,Leonardo, Z. & Porter, R.K. (2010)
• Why is it so hard to talk about race in UK universities? The Conversation,  Rollock, N. (2015)
• Why I am No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Eddo-Lodge, R (2017)

• Equality and Diversity in the Workplace, London, Ashe, S. & Nazroo, J. (2016)
• Racism at Work by Kandola, B (2018)

• Staying Power: The History of Black people in Britain, Fryer, P. (1984) London: Pluto Press
• Reimaging Britain: 500 years of Black and Asian History, Ramdin, R. (1999), London: Pluto Press
• Black and British: a Forgotten History, Olusoga, D. (2016), London: Macmillan
• Jews in Britain, Leventhal, M. & Goldstein, R. (2013), Shire Publications
• Asians in Britain: 400 years of history, Visram, R. (2002) Pluto Press
• Olusoga, D (2016) Black and British: A forgotten history, Pan MacMillan, London. Award winning work sharing over 2000 years history of the "British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean"
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  • Additional and related BBC links here 
• Rukus! The Black Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Cultural Archive catalogue 
• Black Tudors by Kaufman M (2017)

• White Fragility in the Workplace
• Why Gender Equality Is Good for Everyone — Men Included by Michael Kimmel (TED Talk)
• The Race of Life (white privilege)
• Brown eyes/Blue eyes (21 mins- 34 mins)
• Are you racist? 'No' isn't a good enough answerbyMarlon James
• If Microaggressions Happened to White People
• BERA keynote
• Robin Diangelo White Fragility
• Kimberle Crenshaw on Intersectionality
• Michael Kimmel: ‘the day I became a white middle class man’
• BBC Micro inequities: Where are you from game?
• ‘Jonathan’ Goodness gracious me clip
  
  

• EHRC Tackling Racial harassment: Universities challenged
• UUK and NU Closing the Gap Report