RESOURCES

Videos

• LSE talk on Why it pays to be privileged

• LSE talk on The Engines of Privilege: Britain’s private school problem

• Interview with Akala on his new book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.

• Aamer Rahman on “reverse racism”

• Inequality Briefing on Wealth inequality in the UK

• Ta Nehisi Coates on Reparations

• Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners - The Price Of Freedom (BBC documentary presented by David Olusoga)

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Audio/ podcasts

• Podcast on Class by the Center for Labour and Social Studies 

• Interview with Rose Brewer, co-author of the book The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide.

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Articles

• Economic inequality in the UK: How unequal is Britain and are the poor getting poorer?   

• Review of research on a race-related pay gap by the Runnymede Trust: How does your race affect your pay cheque?

• Racial justice and economic justice in the US: We need racial justice and economic justice. We can’t breathe if we can’t eat

• Resistance against precarious labour: Strike 2.0: how gig economy workers are using tech to fight back

• The Equality Trust on The Scale of income inequality in the UK

• May Bulam in the Independent: Racial inequality in UK: The appalling reality of how a Briton's ethnicity affects their chances of a good life

• Dr. Robin DiAngelo on Huffpost: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism

• Ian Jack on Inheritance and inequality: Property feeds the roots of inequality in Britain. Inheritance will entrench it

• Torsten Bell on How to solve the UK’s wealth inequality problem

• Carys Roberts explains why Wealth inequality isn’t inevitable – it’s a political choice

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Resource Generation Blog Articles

• Guide to identifying your experiences: Class distinctions & income brackets 

• Why Resource Generation is Committed to Racial Justice 

• Great, Beautiful Metamorphosis: Journey of an Organizer of Young People of Color with Wealth 

• Hey wealthy white people, racial justice is for US! 

• Resource Generation’s Giving Guidelines

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Books

• Workbook by Layla Saad: Me & White Supremacy

• Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala (see interview in Audio section)

• Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider

• Black and British by David Olusoga

• Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter (see also The Class Work Project below)

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Projects/ Tools

• The Class Work Project has a bunch of written and audio resources, as well as running workshops on class, from a UK perspective.

• UCL’s Legacies of British Slave-ownership Project:

  • Guardian article

  • Short video

  • Search the Database 

  • And a 2 BBC part documentary - Britains forgotten slave owners: (part 1) 

• Tool to calculate Your household's income: Where do you fit in?

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Downloads

• Young People of Color with Wealth Vision Statement (RG)

• What is a praxis group? (RG)

• Runnymede Trust’s Minority Report: Race and Class in post-Brexit Britain

• Ambalavaner Sivandandan’s From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain

• Report on Intersecting Inequalities: The impact of austerity on Black and Minority Ethnic women in the UK