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Resources for diversifying your Reading List

A guide to finding research from underrepresented voices

Africa Book Link

By subscribing to the Africa Book Link, scholars, students, research centres, libraries and bookshops, can fully acquaint themselves with the latest publications in the field of African literature.

Black and Asian Studies Association

Collection of links compiled by BASA of sources by or about Black and Asian peoples’ experiences

Black Cultural Archives

Black Cultural Archives is the only national heritage centre dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain.

Cite Black Authors

We seek to enhance recognition and citation of black academic voices. Our approach requires a shift from traditional citation practices that are passive and white-centric to active citation practices that both quantify and equilibrate racial representation.

Diverse Educators

Website with a range of ‘toolkits’ and reading lists for several topics and subject areas.

Diverse reading lists from academic institutions

Padlet with links to diverse reading lists and resources about diversifying reading lists from a range of institutions and organisations.

Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT)

Women are cited less often than men, and are also underrepresented in syllabi. Yet even well-meaning scholars may find that they have difficulty assessing how gender-balanced their bibliographies and syllabi really are. Counting is tedious and prone to human error, and scholars may not know the gender identities of all the authors they cite. This tool aims to help with that, by automating the process of evaluating the (probabilistic) gender of each name and then providing an estimate of what percentage of the authors on a syllabus are women.