RESOURCES
Videos
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LSE talk on Why it pays to be privileged
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LSE talk on The Engines of Privilege: Britain’s private school problem
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Interview with Akala on his new book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.
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Aamer Rahman on “reverse racism”
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Inequality Briefing on Wealth inequality in the UK
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Ta Nehisi Coates on Reparations
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Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners - The Price Of Freedom (BBC documentary presented by David Olusoga)
Audio/ podcasts
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Podcast on Class by the Center for Labour and Social Studies
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Interview with Rose Brewer, co-author of the book The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide.
Articles
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Economic inequality in the UK: How unequal is Britain and are the poor getting poorer?
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Review of research on a race-related pay gap by the Runnymede Trust: How does your race affect your pay cheque?
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Racial justice and economic justice in the US: We need racial justice and economic justice. We can’t breathe if we can’t eat
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Resistance against precarious labour: Strike 2.0: how gig economy workers are using tech to fight back
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The Equality Trust on The Scale of income inequality in the UK
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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
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Dr. Robin DiAngelo on Huffpost: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism
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Ian Jack on Inheritance and inequality: Property feeds the roots of inequality in Britain. Inheritance will entrench it
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Torsten Bell on How to solve the UK’s wealth inequality problem
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Carys Roberts explains why Wealth inequality isn’t inevitable – it’s a political choice
Resource Generation Blog Articles
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Guide to identifying your experiences: Class distinctions & income brackets
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Great, Beautiful Metamorphosis: Journey of an Organizer of Young People of Color with Wealth
Books
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Workbook by Layla Saad: Me & White Supremacy
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Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala (see interview in Audio section)
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Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider
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Black and British by David Olusoga
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Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter (see also The Class Work Project below)
Projects/ Tools
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The Class Work Project has a bunch of written and audio resources, as well as running workshops on class, from a UK perspective.
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UCL’s Legacies of British Slave-ownership Project:
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Tool to calculate Your household's income: Where do you fit in?
Downloads
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Runnymede Trust’s Minority Report: Race and Class in post-Brexit Britain
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Ambalavaner Sivandandan’s From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain
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Report on Intersecting Inequalities: The impact of austerity on Black and Minority Ethnic women in the UK