Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion ResourceList - Race Equality
Migration, Superdiversity, Policy and Practice (academic module)
Here are some selected titles from our library collections. Jon Bloomfield and Kalwant Bhopal are University of Birmingham authors and academics, David Olusoga is a noted writer, academic and broadcaster.
Black and British by
A Waterstones History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Orwell PrizeShortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak PrizeA vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series.In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers 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. It reveals that behind the South Sea Bubble was Britain's global slave-trading empire and that much of the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery. It shows that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of the First World War. Black British history can be read in stately homes, street names, statues and memorials across Britain and is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation.Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries.
Our City - migrants and the making of modern Birmingham by
"An oral history of Britain's second city and how it has been changed for the better by its migrant population" - WorldCat
White Privilege by
Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Despite claims that we now live in a post-racial society, race continues to disadvantage those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Kalwant Bhopal explores how neoliberal policy making has increased rather than decreased discrimination faced by those from non-white backgrounds. She also shows how certain types of whiteness are not privileged; Gypsies and Travellers, for example, remain marginalised and disadvantaged in society.Drawing on topical debates and supported by empirical data, this important book examines the impact of race on wider issues of inequality and difference in society.
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Black history resource guide : University of Birmingham Cadbury Research Library
Material held at the University of Birmingham's Cadbury Research Library (Word doc).
