Reading Lists

Books

Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class – Owen Jones
Eve Was Shamed: How British Justice is Failing Women – Helena Kennedy
Gang Leader for a Day – Sudhir Venkatesh
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire – Akala
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
A Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Animal Farm – George Orwell
1984 – George Orwell
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Poverty Safari – Darren McGarvey
Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman
Folk Devils and Moral Panics – Stan Cohen
 

Films / TV Series

When They See Us
13th
Dirty Money
Made in Dagenham
The Hate You Give
Suffragette
The Social Network
Bowling for Columbine
I, Daniel Blake
City of God
Freedom Writers
The Green Mile
The Wife
This is England
Wonder
Pride
A Bug’s Life (Marxism)
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Fundamentals of Caring
Girl, Interrupted
Black Mirror 
Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!
Girls Incarcerated
Flint Town
The Simpsons
Explained
60 Days In
Making a Murderer
The Society
 

Documentaries

www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches
Poor Kids: Life on the Breadline (Child Poverty Documentary) | Real Stories
BBC Panorama www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/topics/Sociology_of_culture
Most Hated Family In America - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007clvf/louis-theroux-the-most-hated-family-in-america
America’s Most Hated Family In Crisis - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0107zhy/louis-theroux-americas-most-hated-family-in-crisis
Smile! The Nation’s Family Album https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08j8jj3/smile-the-nations-family-album
Crime – Are We Tough Enough (5 part series) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000dv33/crime-are-we-tough-enough-series-1-1-the-courts
 
The Great Hack
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Miss Representation
Hello, Privilege? It’s Me, Chelsea.
Fyre (White Collar Crime)