National Police Library
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Black History Month
White fragility: why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism.
eBook - DiAngelo, R. 2018. London: Penguin.
Why we kneel, how we rise.
eBook - Holding, M. 2021. London: Simon & Schuster.
Black History Month 2021 - PROUD TO BE.
Website - Black History Month 2021 - Homepage.
Black Poppies : Britain's Black Community and the Great War.
eBook - Bourne, S. 2014. Stroud: The History Press.
How to be an antiracist.
eBook - Kendi, I. 2019. London: Vintage.
Black resistance to British policing.
Book - Elliott-Cooper, A. 2021. Manchester: University Press.
Black and blue: one woman's story of policing and prejudice.
Book - Sandhu, P. 2021. London: Atlantic.
Nottinghamshire police: experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) police officers as victims of hate crimes/incidents (externally) and of bias and prejudice (internally).
Report - Zempi, I. 2020. Nottingham Trent University.
"The impact of values, bias, culture and leadership on BME under-representation in the police service".
Article - Afful, I.
International Journal of Emergency Services. 2018. Vol. 7 No. 1, p. 32-59.
Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire.
Book - Akala. 2019. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
What do we know? Lessons from the history of race relations within constabularies.
Article - Holdaway, S.
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. 2015, Vol 9 Issue 1, p.5-14.
This is why I resist: don't define my black identity.
Book - Mos-Shogbamimu, S. 2021. London: Headline.
A search for belonging: a story about race, identity, belonging and displacement.
Book - Fuller, M. 2020. London: Blink
Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America.
Book- Kendi, I. X. 2017. London: Bodley Head.
Brit(ish): on race, identity and belonging.
Book - Hirsch, A. 2018. London: Bloomsbury Professional.
Sway: unravelling unconscious bias.
eBook - Agarwal, P. 2020. London: Bloomsbury.
Kill the black one first: the most moving story you'll read this year.
Book - Fuller, M. 2019. London: Blink.
A study exploring black police officers perception of progression within West Midlands Police.
Thesis - Rose, R. 2021. MA thesis, University of Coventry.
Writing about ethnicity.
Report - Cabinet. 2021. London: Cabinet Office.
Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies.
Video - Davies, D. 2017. New York: Ted Talks.
The school that tried to end racism.
Video - Channel 4. 2020. Leeds: Channel 4.
40 black inventors that changed the world.
Website - EDGY- 40 black inventors that changed the world.
Britain's forgotten slave owners, 2: the price of freedom.
Video - Olusoga, D. 2015. London: BBC iPlayer.
Britain's forgotten slave owners, 1: profits and loss.
Video - Olusoga, D. 2015. London: BBC iPlayer.
How to argue with a racist: history, science, race and reality.
Book - Rutherford, A. 2021. London: Orion.
Closing ranks: my life as a cop.
eBook - Logan, L. 2020. London: SPCK.
George Floyd representation and 'thinking like a white man'.
Video - Abbey, N. 2020. London: BBC iPlayer.
What if I say the wrong thing? 25 habits for culturally effective people.
eBook - Myers, V. A. 2013. Chicago: Amer Bar Association.
Black and British: a forgotten history.
Video - Olusoga, D. 2016. London: BBC iPlayer.