Auckland Council Libraries: Antiracism and decolonisation

Antiracism and decolonisation

This list will help you understand and unpack the topics of racism, antiracism, decolonisation and white privilege from a variety of perspectives. 

How to be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

Book

Combines ethics, history, law, and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.

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Hīkoi

Aroha Harris

Book

This book is a photographic history of Māori protest - the public face, the rationale, the organisation and the toil behind the scenes. The images and accompanying text tells the story of protests that were turning points in history.

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How to argue with a racist

Adam Rutherford

Book

How to argue with a racist is a vital manifesto for a twenty-first-century understanding of human evolution and variation, and a timely weapon against the misuse of science to justify bigotry.

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Imagining decolonisation

Book

Decolonisation is a term that alarms some and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and often bewildering concept for many New Zealanders. This book seeks to demystify decolonisation using illuminating, real-life examples.

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Tangata whenua

Atholl Anderson

Book

Tangata Whenua portrays the sweep of Māori history from Pacific origins to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers an overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories.

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So you want to talk about race

Ijeoma Oluo

Book

A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.

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When they call you a terrorist

Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Book

The co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position of love, humanity, and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labelled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes.

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Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Book

Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge has written a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary examination of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today.

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How to be less stupid about race

Crystal Marie Fleming

eAudiobook

How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics.

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White fragility

Robin J. DiAngelo

Book

White fragility is characterized by anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviours including argumentation and silence. DiAngelo explores how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

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Me and white supremacy

Layla F. Saad

Book

Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

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Tupuna awa

Marama Muru-Lanning

Book

By examining the debates over water in one New Zealand river, over a single recent period, Muru-Lanning provides a powerful lens through which to view modern iwi politics, debates over water ownership, and contests for power.

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Stamped

Jason Reynolds

Book

The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, and to foster separation and silence. This remarkable book reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an anti-racist future.

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Minor feelings

Cathy Park Hong

eBook

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America.

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Natives

author Akala

Book

Covering everything from the police, education and identity to politics, sexual objectification and the far right, Natives will speak directly to British denial and squeamishness when it comes to confronting issues of race and class.

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Justice & race

O. R. W. (Oliver Robert Webber) Sut...

Book

This is the story of ACORD - the Auckland Committee on Racism And Discrimination. For 15 years ACORD exposed and campaigned against the institutional racism of police, justice and social welfare systems.

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Just mercy

Bryan Stevenson

Book

This is a powerful, true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justice. Bryan Stevenson's story of battling systemic racism in America.

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Brit(ish)

Afua Hirsch

Book

Why do people keep asking you where are from? Brit(ish) is about a search for identity. It is about the everyday racism that plagues British society. It is about our awkward, troubled relationship with our history.

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Ka whawhai tonu matou = Struggle without end

Ranginui Walker

Book

Since the mid-nineteenth century, Māori have been involved in an endless struggle for justice, equality and self-determination. In this book Dr Walker provides a uniquely Māori view, going to the very origins of the Māori people.

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Polynesian Panthers

Book

Polynesian Panthers records the Pacific rights and social activist movement in New Zealand, told by those who were there. Forming in 1971, the Polynesian Panthers sought to raise consciousness and took action against racism and discrimination.

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