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