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Racism, Books On

Slavery was outlawed in Britain in 1807 and made a capital offence in 1824. Abolitionist writers were William Wilberforce, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Benger, Hannah More, Henry Brougham & Susannah Watts
18thC
Joseph Woods : Thoughts on the Slavery of the Negroes
(1784 James Philips, London)
Anthony BENEZET : Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition & Character of the Indian
Natives of This Continent
(1784 Phila)
A Caution to Great Britain & Her Colonies -- the Calamitous State of the
Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions
(1784 London)
Some Historical Account of Guinea .. with an Inquiry into the Rise & Progress
of the Slave Trade
(1788 J Phillips, London)

19thC
T S SAVAGE : A Description of the Habits and Customs of Gorilla Troglodytes
(1847 London)

Pre-1950
O C COX : Class, Caste and Race
(1948 NY)
J P SARTRE : The Jew and the Anti-Semite
(1948 NY)
C Lloyd : The Navy and the Slave Trade
(1949 Longman)

1950-1959
J H ROBB : Working Class Anti-Semite
(1954 London)
C BERNHEIMER : The Wild Man in the Middle Ages
(1956 Chicago)

1960-1969
Ruth GLASS : Newcomers - the West Indians in London
(1960 Allen & Unwin)
S O'CALLAGHAN : The Slave Trade
(1961 Anthony Blond)
T JACKSON : The Irish in Britain
(1963 London)
E WILLIAMS : Slavery and Capitalism
(1963 Longman)
E B HOLTSMARK : Tarzan and Tradition
(1964 NY)
Commonwealth Immigrants Advisory Council : Second Report
(1964 HMSO)
H A C CAIRNS : Prelude to Imperialism 1840-1890
(1965 London)
P D CURTIN : The Image of Africa 1780-1850
(1965 London)
J HUNTE : Nigger Hunting in England
(1965 WISC, London)
J FRIEDMAN : The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought
(1966 Toronto)
Donald HINDS : Journey to an Illusion - the West Indian in Britain
(1966 Heinemann)
MALCOLM X : The Autobiography of Malcolm X
(1966 Penguin)
Dept of Education & Science
(DES) : Immigrants and the Youth Service (1967 DES)
Eric HOBSBAWM : Industry and Empire
(1968 Penguin)
Adolph EDWARDS : Marcus Garvey 1887-1940
(1967 New Beacon Books, London)
(Ed) Joanne GRANT : Black Protest 1619 to the Present - History Documents Analysis
(1968 Fawcett US)
J LESTER : To be a Slave
(1968 Puffin)
Frantz FANON : Black Skins, White Masks
(1968 MacGibbon & Kee)
C PEACH : West Indian Migration to Britain
(1968 OUP/IRR)
J REX & R MOORE : Race, Community and Conflict - A Study of Sparkbrook
(1968 OUP/IRR)
E J B ROSE : Colour and Citizenship - A Report on British Race Relations
(1969 OUP) - et al
Select Committee on Race Relations & Immigration
(SCRRI) : The Problems
of Coloured School Leavers
(1969 HMSO)
Paul FOOT : The Rise of Enoch Powell
(1969 Penguin)
Stokely CARMICHAEL & Charles V HAMILTON : Black Power
(1969 Penguin)

1970-1971
M DOUGLAS : Purity and Danger
(1970 Penguin)
J KOVEL : White Racism - A PsychoHistory
(1970 NY)
A LEON : The Jewish Question
(1970 NY)
C VERLINDEN : The Beginning of Modern Colonisation
(1970 London)
G JOHN : Race in the Inner City - A Report from Handsworth
(1970 Runnymede Trust)
J LAMBERT : Crime, Police and Race Relations
(1970 OUP)
C BOLT : Victorian Attitudes to Race
(1971 London)
L P CURTIS : Apes and Angels - The Irishman in Victorian Caricature
(1971 Washington DC)
(Ed) S ABBOTT : Prevention of Racial Discrimination in Britain (1971 OUP)
B COARD : How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal
in the British School System
(1971 Beacon, London)
Dilip HIRO : Black British, White British
(1971 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Angela DAVIS : If they Come in the Morning
(1971 Orbach & Chambers, London)

1972
D HUMPHRY : Police Power and Black People
(1972 Panther, London)
E R BRAITHWAITE & A PHILLIPS : The People Who Came
(1972 Longman Caribbean)
Derek HUMPHRY & Gus JOHN : Because They're Black
(1972 Penguin)
Donnarae MacCANN & Gloria WOODARD : The Black American in Books for Children
(1972)
Edward SCOBIE : Black Britannia - A History of Blacks in Britain
(1972 Johnson, Chicago)
Chris SEARLE : The Forsaken Lover - White Words and Black people
(1972 RKP)
Walter RODNEY : How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
(1972 Bogle L'Ouverture, London)

1973-1976
R HILBERG : The Destruction of the European Jews
(1973 London)
L POLIAKOV : The Aryan Myth
(1974 London)
W RODNEY : How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
(1974 Washington DC)
Community Relations Commission
(CRC) : Unemployment and Homelessness (1974 CRC London)
David KILLINGRAY : The Slave Trade
(1974 Harrap)
Buchi EMECHETA : Second Class Citizen
(1974 Allison & Busby) - fiction
J BROWN : A Theory of Police/Immigrant Relations
(1974 Cranfield Inst of Technology)
E ABEL : The Roots of Antisemitism
(1975 London)
W FISHMAN : East End Jewish Radicals
(1975 London)
M HECHTER : Internal Colonialism in the British Isles
(1975 Berkeley, US)
W REICH : The Mass Psychology of Fascism
(1975 Penguin)
D MILNER : Children and Race
(1975 Penguin)
Philip FONER : History of Black Americans
(1975 Greenwood)
Robert MOORE : Racism and Black Resistance in Britain
(1975 Pluto)
R N LEBOW : White Britain and Black Ireland - the Influence of Stereotypes on Colonial Policy
(1976 London)
G STEDMAN JONES : Outcast London
(1976 London)
W RYAN : Blaming the Victim
(1976 Vintage Books, NY)
(Ed) Judith STINTON : Racism and Sexism in Children's Books (1976)
Counter Information Services : Racism - Who profits ?
(1976 CIS)
S HALL & T JEFFERSON : Resistance Through Rituals
(1976 CCCS/Hutchinson)
G MUNGHAM & G PEARSON : Working Class Youth Culture
(1976 RKP)

1977-1978
M BANTON : The Idea of Race
(1977 London)
Basil DAVIDSON : A History of West Africa
(1977 London)
J SPRINGHALL : Youth, Empire and Society
(1977 London)
M WALKER : The National Front
(1977 Glasgow)
Bob DIXON : Catching Them Young - Sex, Race and Class in Children's Fiction
(1977)
Alex HALEY : Roots
(1977 Hutchinson) - fiction
J BROWN : Shades of Grey - Police/West Indian relations in Handsworth
(1977 Cranfield Inst of Technology)
(Ed) M FREEDMAN : A Minority in Britain (1978 London)
Stuart HALL : Policing the Crisis
(1978 London) - et al
(Ed) C HOLMES : Immigrants and Minorities in British Society (1978 London)
J KATZ : White Awareness - A Handbook for Anti-Racist Teachers
(1978 Oakland, California)
D LORIMER : Colour, Class and the Victorians
(1978 Leicester)
G L MOSSE : Toward the Final Solution
(1978 London)
Thoma J COTTLE : Black Testimony - The Voice of Britain's West Indians
(1978 Wildwood House, London)
Home Office : The West Indian Community
(1978 HMSO)
Basil DAVIDSON : Discovering Africa's Past
(1978 Longman)
Amrit WILSON : Finding a Voice - Asian Women in Britain
(1978 Virago)
Basil DAVIDSON : Africa in Modern History - the Search for a New Society
(1978 Allen Lane)

1979
M BILLIG : Psychology, Racism and Fascism
(1979 Birmingham)
L DAVIDOWICZ : The War Against the Jews
(1979 Penguin)
(Ed) C HOLMES : Antisemitism in British Society 1876-1939 (1979 London)
L LEES : Exiles of Erin
(1979 Manchester)
(Eds) R MILES & A PHIZACLEA : Racism and Political Action (1979 London)
P REES : Fascism in Britain
(1979 Hassocks)
(Ed) C ROSS : Patronage, Pedigree and Power (1979 Gloucester)
Lennox HONEYCHURCH : The Caribbean People
(1979 Nelson Caribbean)
Institute of Race Relations : Police Against Black People
(1979 IRR)
P CORRIGAN : Schooling the Smash Street Kids
(1979 Macmillan)
K PRYCE : Endless Pressure
(1979 Penguin)

1980
M GREEN : Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire
(1980 London)
(Ed) K LUNN : Hosts, Immigrants and Minorities (1980 Folkstone)
(Eds) K LUNN & R THURLOW : British Fascism - Essays on the Radical Right in Inter-War Britain
(1980 Oxford)
(Eds) R MILES & A PHIZACLEA : Labour and Racism (1980 London)
CRE : Youth in Multi-Racial Society
(1980 CRE)
CRE : Ethnic Minority Youth Unemployment
(1980 CRE)
(Ed) Roy PREISWERK : The Slant of the Pen - Racism in Children's Books
(1980 World Council of Churches, Geneva)
Joyce SIKAKANE : Window on Soweto
(1980 Pluto)
Samuel SELVON : The Lonely Londoners
(1980 Longman) - fiction
B CATCHPOLE : Clash of Cultures
(1980 Heinemann)
George LAMMING : The Emigrants
(1980 Allison & Busby) - fiction
J ROBERTS : From Massacre to Mining - the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia
(1980 CIMRA, London)
R HART : Blacks in Bondage - Slaves who Abolished Slavery
(1980 Inst of Social &
Economic Research, Jamaica)

1981-1982
(Eds) P KENNEDY & A NICHOLLS : Nationalist and Racialist Movements in Britain &
Germany Before 1914
(1981 London)
(Eds) S YEO & F YEO : Popular Culture and Class Conflict (1981 Sussex)
N FILE & Chris POWER : Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958
(1981 Heinemann)
Campaign Against Racism & Fascism : Southall - the Birth of a Black Community
(1981 IRR, London)
Home Office : Racial Attacks - Report of a Home Office Study
(1981 Home Office)
M BARKER : The New Racism
(1981 Junction Books, London)
S HUMPHRIES : Hooligans or Rebels - An Oral History of Working Class Childhood
& Youth 1889-1939
(1981 Blackwell)
Gus JOHN : In the Service of Black Youth - A Study of the Political Culture of Youth
& Community Work with Black People in English Cities
(1981 NAYC)
(Ed) C HUSBANDS : Race in Britain - Continuity and Change (1982 London)
Institute for Race Relations
(IRR) : Roots of Racism - Patterns of Racism (1982 London)
R MILES : Racism and Migrant Labour
(1982 London)
CCCS Race & POlitics Group : The Empire Strikes Back - Race and Racism in 70s Britain
(1982 Hutchinson)
(Eds) D COWELL : Policing the Riots (1982 Junction Books, London)
H TUMBER : Television and the Riots
(1982 British Film Institute)
A SIVANANDAN : A Different Hunger - Writings on Black Resistance
(1982 Pluto)

1983
M BARKER : The New Racism
(1983 London)
M BANTON : Race and Ethnic Competition
(1983 Cambridge)
J GAGER : The Origins of Antisemitism
(1983 Oxford)
H JOSHUA, T WALLACE & H BOOTH : To Ride the Storm - the 1980 Bristol 'Riot' and the State
(1983 Heinemann)
Race and Class : British Racism - The Road to 1984
(1983 London)
F REEVES : British Racial Discourse
(1983 Cambridge)
C J ROBINSON : Black Marxism
(1983 London)
M RODINSON : Cult, Ghetto, State - The Persistence of the Jewish Question
(1983 London)
(Eds) B TROYNA & D I SMITH : Racism, School and the Labour Market
(1983 Nat Youth Bureau, Leicester)
Paul GORDON : White Law - Racism in the Police, Courts & Prisons
(1983 Pluto)
Tariq MEHMOOD : Hand on the Sun
(1983 Penguin) - fiction

1984-1985
ALTARF : Challenging Racism
(1984 London)
A BRITTAN & M MAYNARD : Sexism, Racism and Oppression
(1984 Oxford)
S COHEN : That's Funny You Don't Look Antisemitic
(1984 Leeds)
L CURTIS : Nothing But the Same Old Story
(1984 London)
A EMMANUEL : Unequal Exchange
(1984 London)
Peter FRYER : Staying Power - The History of Black People in Britain
(1984 Pluto)
J MACKENZIE : Propaganda and Empire
(1984 Manchester)
P RICH : White Power and the Liberal Conscience
(1984 Manchester)
(Ed) J BENYON : Scarman and After (1984 Pergamon Press)
Elyse DODGSON : Motherland - West Indian Women to Britain in the 1950's
(1984 Heinemann)
Ann DUMMETT : A Portrait of English Racism
(1984 Christians Against Racism and Fascism, London)
(Eds) S GILLEY & R F SWIFT : The Irish in the Victorian City (1985 London)
K WILLIAMS : Imperialism, Colonialism and the Culture of Empire
(1985 London)
Beverley BRYAN : The Heart of the Race - Black Women's Lives in Britain
(1985 Virago) - et al
Paul GORDON : British Immigration Control - A Brief Guide
(1985 Runnymede Trust)
Institute of Race Relations : How Racism Came to Britain
(1985 IRR)

Since 1986
E CASHMORE : The Logic of Racism
(1986 London)
H CUTLER & H CUTLER : The Jew as Ally of the Muslim - The Medieval Roots of Anti-Semitism
(1986 Notre Dame)
A DUNDES : The Wandering Jew
(1986 Toronto) - et al
J H GRIFFIN : Black Like Me
(1986 London)
R HEWITT : White Talk, Black Talk
(1986 Cambridge)
J MANGAN : The Games Ethic and Imperialism
(1986 London)
K OWUSI : The Struggle for Black Arts in Britain
(1986 London)
J REX & D MASON : Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations
(1986 Cambridge)
P RICH : Race and Empire in British Politics
(1986 Cambridge)
B TROYNA & J WILLIAMS : Racism, Education and the State
(1986 London)
D WOODS & M BOSTOCK : Apartheid
(1986 London)
A SIVANANDAN : from Resistance to Rebellion - Asian & Afro-Caribbean Struggles in Britain
(1986 IRR)
G BRANDT : The Realisation of Anti-Racist Teaching
(1987 Brighton)
P CARTER : The Road to Botany Bay
(1987 London)
P GILROY : There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
(1987 London)
R RAMDIN : The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
(1987 London)
Henry Hampton & Steve Fayer : Voices of Freedom - An oral History of the Civil Rights
Movement from 1950's through the 1980's
(1990 Doubleday)
Marek KOHN : The Race Gallery - the Return of Racial Science
(1995 Cape £17.99)
Giles Milton : White Gold - The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's
One Million European Slaves
(2004 Hodder & Stoughton £18.99)

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