Emma Dabiri

What White People Can Do Next

  • What White People Can Do Next

  • THE SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER

    'A must-read     . . . accessible and yet so full of scholarship' Owen Jones

    We need to talk about racial injustice in a different way: one that builds on the revolutionary ideas of the past and forges new connections.

    In this incisive, radical and practical essay, Emma Dabiri - acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair - draws on years of research and personal experience to challenge us to create meaningful, lasting change.

    'Impactful . . . Emma expertly outlines how the idea of race was constructed to bolster capitalism and explains how, in a divided world, unity and coalition are needed to create a future that works for everyone' Cosmopolitan

Don't Touch My Hair
Don't Touch My Hair
Emma Dabiri
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Features

Jyoti Patel wins 2021 #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize with coming-of-age novel

Stormzy and Emma Dabiri were among the judges who awarded Patel’s Six of One with the prestigious publishing contract
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‘I would love to write in a beautiful old house in the American South’: 21 Questions with Emma Dabiri

The author of What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition on Toni Morrison, the book she loved as a child and mashing up books in the bath.
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10 brilliant books by Irish authors

Kerri ní Dochartaigh recommends a list of books to mark St. Patrick's Day 2021, from folk tales to social commentary.
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Blogs

From the archive: colleagues give their Black History Month recommendations

For Black History Month, our BAME colleague group, Colour[full], are celebrating their favourite work by Black writers from the Penguin Random House collection; from recent titles to some older must-reads from our archives.
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‘Blackness is determined by more than skin colour’: Emma Dabiri and gal-dem on black hair

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff from gal-dem interviews Emma Dabiri on her debut book, Don’t Touch My Hair. From pre-colonial Africa and anti-capitalism, to European beauty standards and the experience of growing up mixed-race in Ireland, they discuss why black hair matters.

Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS, a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths and the author of Don't Touch My Hair, which was an Irish Times bestseller. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries 'Journeys into Afro-futurism' and 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces'.

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