Based on your suggestions we hope to increase the range of books in the library written by people from a BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) background, books by and about LGBTQI+ people and titles which recognise overlapping identities and experiences such as gender, class, sexuality and disability.
To get involved all you need to do is complete our online form and if the requested book costs less than £60 and there are no copies in stock, your order will be placed within five working days.
If you have any questions about Liberating CityLibrary please email library@city.ac.uk.
All items purchased for Liberating CityLibrary can be discovered in CityLibrary Search using the search term 'LiberatingCity'.
We have added all purchased recommendations to a Liberating CityLibrary Reading List.
Highlights from the collections are displayed below. Select the book title graphic to connect to CityLibrary Search to view the book details, availability and e-book access links.
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Friday Black
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
Happy Families
Julie Ma.
George
Alex Gino.
A Horse Named Sorrow
Trebor Healey.
My Tender Matador
Pedro Lemebel.
Tiny Pieces of Skull
Roz Kaveney.
Nevada
Imogen Binnie.
An Arrow's Flight
Mark Merlis.
How to be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Me and white supremacy
Layla Saad.
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein.
Brit(ish)
Afua Hirsch
Divided Sisters
Midge Wilson.
So you want to talk about race.
Ijeoma Oluo.
Where Are All the Librarians of Color?
Rebecca Hankins and Miguel Juarez.
Navigating institutional racism in British Universities
Katy P. Sian
The Anger Gap: How race shapes emotion in politics
Davin L. Phoenix
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge.
The Power of Privilege: How white people can challenge racism
June Sarpong.
Empire's endgame: Racism and the British State
Adam Elliott-Cooper, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Sita Balani.
Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi.
Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte.
Towards decolonising the university: a kaleidoscope for empowered action
Decolonise University of Kent Collective
Decolonisation in universities: the politics of knowledge.
Edited by Jonathan D. Jansen
Beyond the doctrine of man: decolonial visions of the human
Edited by Joseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert.
Queer Between the Covers
Edited by Leila Kassir and Richard Espley.
Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary
Sasha Geffen.
The global trajectories of queerness: re-thinking same-sex politics in the Global South.
Edited by Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala.
Transgender Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Binary and Non-Binary Trans Patient Care
by Benjamin Vincent.
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler
Chris Bryant.
Firebird: A Memoir
Mark Doty.
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Samra Habib.
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
John Boswell.
Out of time: the queer politics of postcoloniality
Rahul Rao.
Plebeian prose
NeĢstor Perlongher and Frances Riddle.
The Minor Gesture
Erin Manning
Madness and the demand for recognition: a philosophical inquiry into identity and mental health activism
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
Haben the deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law : a memoir
Haben Girma
Face it: facial disfigurement and my fight for Face Equality
James Partridge