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If you want to learn more about tackling racial injustice this Black History Month, these books about racism in both the UK and US, will help to educate you. ....
Jeffrey Boakye Jeffrey Boakye is a writer, teacher and music enthusiast originally from Brixton, London. He has a particular interest in issues surrounding educa tion, race and popular culture. Jeffrey has taught English in London second ary schools and sixth-form colleges since 2007, previously working in jour nalism and copywriting, after graduating with a degree in English Literature. His first book, Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime, is recognised as one of the first seminal books about grime music, published by Influx Press in 2017. Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored is his second major book, published under Dialogue Books in 2018. He is also the co-author of ....
My last book, Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored, contains the word “black” a total of 1,750 times. In a manuscript of 99,000 words, that constitutes 1.8 per cent. Two of these are in the title alone. To put that into perspective, if you removed 1.8 per cent of the population of England and Wales who, according to the 2011 census, identify as black African, you’d be getting rid of every black African person in those countries within the UK. My first book, Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials And The Meaning Of Grime, was a “witty and perceptive, confident and charming” exploration of grime music (not my words, but who am I to argue with the critics?). The first page begins with the word “black” – “black music”, to be precise. The book also has the world “black” in its subtitle and features a whole chapter devoted to a song called “Black” and another about a song called “Black Boys” (I was once one of those too). ....