{"id":2925,"date":"2025-05-01T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.edinburghcollege.ac.uk\/?page_id=2925"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:44:17","slug":"non-fiction-collections-thinking-shelf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.edinburghcollege.ac.uk\/?page_id=2925","title":{"rendered":"Non-Fiction Collections (Thinking Shelf)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Library Non-Fiction Collection aims to encourage independent ideas and critical thought by highlighting books on social issues, political themes and contemporary thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digesting materials from this collection may help you to expand your horizons, experience the world from different perspectives and form your own opinions on contemporary society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics represented within the collection include – LGBTQIA+, Neurodiversity, Race and Racism in the UK, Feminism and Inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our non-fiction collection is spread across all four campuses, our digital items can be accessed anywhere. To request an item that is held at a different campus, please ask a member of staff at the library service desk or email library@edinburghcollege.ac.uk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Collections: Race and Racism in the UK<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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THE GOOD IMMIGRANT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants \u2013 job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees \u2013 until, by winning Olympic races or being conscientious doctors, they cross over and become ‘good.’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and \u2013 most importantly \u2013 real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: Sighthill Campus (305.8 SHU)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SYSTEMIC: HOW RACISM IS MAKING US ILL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can you do when science and medicine are as biased as the society they treat? Black and Asian patients in the UK wait nearly a week longer for a cancer diagnosis and globally, people of colour are not only more likely to die while giving birth \u2013 but soon afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Systemic<\/em>, science journalist Layal Liverpool unearths the shocking facts behind the health threat of racism – and how it leads to worse treatment for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: Sighthill Campus (305.8 LIV)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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NATIVES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class have shaped Akala’s life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: Granton Campus (B:AKA)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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