This page contains links to a variety of resources - both in print and on the web - that may be of interest to parliamentarians and others who are interested in finding out more about issues relating to race, and equality in general.

These resources are divided into nine sections:

• General
• Politics and representation
• Gender
• Faith
• Education
• Employment
• Health and services
• Asylum and immigration
• Criminal justice

Many are available from other websites in the form of web pages or downloadable documents.

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General resources

Home Office, Race Cohesion, Equality and Faith Directorate, Improving Opportunity, Strengthening Society: The Government’s strategy to increase race equality and community cohesion(2005)

• Home Office, 2003 Home Office Citizenship Survey: People, Families and Communities, Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, Research Study 289, (December 2004)
• Rachel Pennant, Diversity Trust and Community Participation in England, Home Office Findings 253, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate (2005), ISSN 1473-8406
  

Jenny Church, Carol Summerfield, Social Focus on Ethnic Minorities, Office for National Statistics, London: HMSO/Government Statistical Service (1996), ISBN: 0 11620 793 0

Runnymede Trust, Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, London: Profile Books Ltd. (2000), ISBN: 1 86197 227 X

Nick Pettigrew, Experiences of lone parents from minority ethnic communities, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions Research Report; No 187, Leeds, Corporate Document Services (2003)

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Politics and representation

Commission for Racial Equality, Elections and Good Race Relations, (March 2005) Available from the Downloads section of this page.

• Refugee Council, Tell it like it is: The truth about asylum – a guide for the general election (2005)
  
• Rachel Pennant, Diversity Trust and Community Participation in England, Home Office Findings 253, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate (2005), ISSN 1473-8406
  
• Helen Margetts, Peter John and Stewart Weir, Latent Support for the Far-Right in British Politics: The BNP and UKIP in the 2004 European and London Elections, research paper, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (2005)
  
• Guardian/ICM poll, BME Omnibus (ethnic minority voters) (March 2005)
  

Greg Deacon, Ahmed Keita, Ken Ritchie, Burnley and the BNP and the Case for Electoral Reform, January (2004), Electoral Reform Society, ISBN 0 90329 125 8

Alexandra Runswick et al, Life Support for Local parties: An analysis of the decline of local political parties and the case for state support of local activism, New Politics Network (2004), ISBN 0 9545982 3 7

• Prof. Anwar, Claude Moraes MEP, Cllr Clare Whelan, Parties Must do More, (bulletin) New Politics Network, (May 2004)

Peter Riddell, Candidate Selection, The Report of the Commission on Candidate Selection, Electoral Reform Society (2003), ISBN 0 903291 24 X

Rushanara Ali and Colm O’Cinneide, Our House?  Race and Representation in British Politics, IPPR (2002), ISBN 1 86030 1444 4

Shamit Saggar, Race and Representation; Electoral politics and ethic pluralism in Britain, Manchester University (2000), ISBN 0 7190 5987 9

Shamit Saggar, The General Election 1997: Ethnic Minorities and Electoral Politics, Commission for Racial Equality, (1998) ISBN 185442 212 X

• McDougall Trust Representation, The Journal of Representative Democracy
  

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Gender

Emily Brittain, Holly Dustin, Caroline Pearce, Ketherine Rake, Mamusa Siyunyi-Siluwe, Fay Sullivan, Black and Minority Ethnic Women in the UK, Fawcett Society (February 2005), ISBN 0 90189 032 4

Fauzia Ahmad, Tariq Modood, Stephen Lissenburgh, South Asian women and employment in Britain: the interaction of gender and ethnicity, Policy Studies Institute, Policy Studies Institute Report No 891, London: Policy Studies Institute (2003), ISBN: 0 85374 809 8

• Kathryn Hall, James Bance, Nickie Denton, Diversity and difference: minority ethnic mothers and childcare, Women and Equality Unit, Department of Trade and Industry, (2004)

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Faith

Paul Wellar, Religions in the UK, Directory 2001-2003, Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Derby in association with the Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom (2001), ISBN 0 901437 94 4

The InterFaith Network for the United Kingdom, Inter Faith Organisations in the UK, A Directory (2004), ISBN 1902906136

Humayun Ansari, Muslims in Britain: report, London: Minority Rights Group (2002), ISBN: 1 89769 364 8

•  Scottish Executive National Statistics publication, Analysis of Religion in 2001 Census (February 2005),

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Education

Farzana Shain, The schooling and identity of Asian girls, Trentham Books (2003), ISBN: 1858561817

• Commission for Racial Equality, Learning for All: Standards for racial equality in schools (2000), ISBN 1 85442 223 5.
• Audrey Osler and Marlene Morrison, Inspecting Schools for Racial Equality: OFSTED's strengths and weaknesses , Trentham Books for the CRE (2000), ISBN 1 85856 235 X.

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Employment

• Commission for Racial Equality, Racial Equality and the Smaller Business: A Practical Guide (CD-ROM) (2004), ISBN 1 85442 546 3.
• Commission for Racial Equality, Equal Opportunities is Your Business Too: A good practice guide on race, sex and disability for small firms (2004) ISBN 185442 540 4.

Ethnic Minority Taskforce, Equality. Opportunity. Success. Year 1 progress report, London: Department for Work and Pensions (2004), ISBN: 1843883872

Richard Berthoud, The incomes of ethnic minorities , Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER Report: 98 – 1, Colchester: University of Essex (1998), ISBN: 1858712009

• Cabinet Office, Strategy Unit, Ethnic minorities and the labour market: final report, Cabinet Office (2003)

Richard Berthoud, Multiple disadvantage in employment: a quantitative analysis, Work and Opportunity Series No 31, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2003), ISBN: 1 84263 0520

• Centre for Social Markets, British Asians today: a statistical overview, London: Centre for Social Markets, (July 2001)
  

Marilyn J Davidson, Ronald Burke (editors), Women in management: current research issues, Sage Publications Ltd (2000), ISBN: 0 76196 603 X

Frances Drever, Social inequalities, Office for National Statistics, London: Stationery Office (2000), ISBN: 0 11621 226 91

• Shalini Pathak, Race research for the future: ethnicity in education, training and the labour market, Research Topic Paper RTP01 March 2000, Department for Education and Employment (2000)

Marilyn J Davidson, The black and ethnic minority woman manager: cracking the concrete ceiling, London: Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd (1997), ISBN: 1 85396 299 6

David Owen, Ethnic minority women and the labour market: analysis of the 1991 census, Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester: Equal Opportunities Commission (1994), ISBN: 1 87035 824 4

Reena Bhavnani, Black women in the labour market: a research review, Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester: Equal Opportunities Commission (1994), ISBN: 1 87035 823 6

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Health and services

• SHAs with the Department of Health, the CRE and local NHS organisations, Race Equality Guide for Strategic Health Authorities, North Central London Strategic Health Authority, (2004) 
• Commission for Racial Equality, Racial Equality and NHS Trusts, A survey by the Commission for Racial Equality (2001) ISBN 1 85442 226 X.   

Salman Rawaf, Veena Bahl, Assessing health needs of people from minority ethnic groups, London: Royal College of Physicians, 1998, ISBN: 1860160581

Ravinder Barn, Ruth Sinclair and Dionne Ferdinand, Acting on Principle: An examination of race and ethnicity in social services provision for children and families, CRE and British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, ISBN 1 873868 40 5 (Only available from British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering)

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Asylum and immigration

• Refugee Council, Tell it like it is: The truth about asylum – a guide for the general election, (2005)

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Criminal justice

Stephen Shute, Roger Hood and Florence Seemungal, A Fair Hearing? Ethnic Minorities in the criminal courts, Willan Publishing (March 2005), ISBN 1-84392-084-0

Sam Lewis et al (editors), Race and Probation, Willan Publishing (Nov 2005), ISBN 1-84392-143-X

Tim Newburn, Michael Shiner, Dealing with Disaffection, Young People, mentoring and social inclusion, Willan Publishing (March 05), ISBN 1-84392-065-4

• Commission for Racial Equality, The Police Service of England and Wales, Final Report of a Formal Investigation by the Commission for Racial Equality (March 2005)
• Crown Prosecution Service, Racist Incident Monitoring Annual Report 2003 – 2004 (2005)

Neil Chakraborti and Jon Garland (editors), Rural Racism, Willan Publishing (October 2004), ISBN 1-84392-056-6

Michael Rowe, Policing, Race and Racism, Willan Publishing, (April 2004) ISBN 1-84392-044-1

• Commission for Racial Equality, A Formal investigation by the Commission for Racial Equality into HM Prison Service of England and Wales - Part 1: The Murder of Zahid Mubarek (2003), ISBN 1 85442 526 9
• Commission for Racial Equality, A Formal investigation by the Commission for Racial Equality into HM Prison Service of England and Wales - Part 2: Racial Equality in Prisons (2003), ISBN 1 85442 544 7
• Commission for Racial Equality and HM Prison Service, Implementing Race Equality in Prisons, a shared agenda for change (December 2003)
• Commission for Racial Equality, The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: Implications for race equality (March 1999)
  

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