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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the library

These are works covering various topics specifically by authors from marginalised demographics, some are on EDI topics and some are research in the academics' chosen field.   They are gathered here as an example of the breadth of research bought to the sector by these authors.

Autobiography, Memoir and Advocacy by Marginalised Authors

Unearthed : on race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong
The problem with my normal penis : myths of race, sex and masculinity
Black writers matter
The life and rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah the autobiography
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
My wild and sleepless nights : a mother's story
Title The boy with the topknot : a memoir of love, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton
Taking up space : the black girl's manifesto for change
Trans : A memoir
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Anything we love can be saved : a writer's activism
Black Wave
Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticism

Diverse Children's Books

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
Look Up!
Baller Boys
Hope on the horizon : a children's handbook on empathy, kindness & making a better world
Lily and the Polar Bears
Planet Omar: Accidental trouble magnet
The Girls
Cookie!...and the most mysterious mystery in the world
Lenny and Wilbur
Happy Here
My Hair
My Pet Star
The Rapping Princess
Dr Maggie's Grand Tour of the Solar System
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Where's Lenny?

Fiction by Marginalised Authors

Mars : stories
Clap When You Land
Ace of Spades
Patina
Refugee Boy
Windrush Child
The Star Outside My Window
Checkmate
The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings
Inland Passage
Tea Leaves
The Unlit Lamp
Disobedience

Guidance and Instruction by Marginalised Authors

Spreadsheet Applications in Chemistry Using Microsoft Excel
An introduction to transportation geography : transport, mobility, and place
Song of the earth : understanding geology and why it matters
Academic Writing for International Students of Science
An Introduction to Conservation Biology

Poetry by Marginalised Authors

Like a Tree, Walking
Measures of Expatriation
States of the Body Produced by Love

Research by Marginalised Authors

Pollution Is Colonialism
Mammalian Paleoecology : Using the Past to Study the Present
Tourism and Brexit : travel, borders and identity