Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge
Nonfiction - 305.8 Edd

In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences. Galvanised, she decided to dig into the source of these feelings. 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.


Antiracist Reading List

  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race


  • How We Get Free : Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective


  • Stamped from the Beginning : the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America


  • Overground Railroad : the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America


  • They Were Her Property : White Women as Slave Owners in the American South


  • "Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" : and Other Conversations About Race


  • So You Want to Talk About Race


  • Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot


  • White Rage : the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide


  • Towards Collective Liberation : Anti-racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy


  • The Color of Compromise : the Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • How We Fight White Supremacy : a Field Guide to Black Resistance


  • The Color of Law : a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America


  • Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow


  • Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor


  • How to be Less Stupid About Race : on Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide


  • How to be an Antiracist


  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir


  • The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness