Black History Month: Reading Lists

By Marsha Garratt Part One: Begin "My recommended reads for Black History month dismiss the idea that the African continent needed civilising or saving by Western Europe. they develop knowledge on the history and modern reality of race and racism and most importantly help us to understand what we need to do to be actively anti-racist. To understand racism in the present we need to know the history behind the creation of race and how the concept was used to denigrate, manipulate and exploit. For me, only in developing my knowledge on this history was I able to understand the reality of racism today. Books were my tool to navigate and resist racist experiences against myself and my family. Books remain a tool to support and develop my anti-racist work. Self-led education is a tool of resistance."

Naomi Klein’s ‘Why Black Lives Matter should transform the climate debate’, is one of the shorter reads from Friends of the Earth’s race & climate reading list.