Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous & Systemic Racisms
police defunding, racism in healthcare, intersectionality
updated January 19, 2021
News sources where you might find stories dealing with many forms of racisms, and resistance.
- APTN News
- CBC Indigenous
- Byblacks.com
- CBC Being Black in Canada
- Ricochet - public interest journalism
- the Conversation (academics writing short pieces)
- The Narwhal (environmental racisms)
- SEE ALSO our Indigenous news feeds in the Pîkiskwêtân Companion Resource Guides.
- Media Indigena
- The Secret Life of Canada
- Sandy & Nora Talk Politics
- Cite Black Women
- Unreserved
- CanadaLand Indigenous
- Warrior life with Pamela Palmater
- Portraits of Black Canadians
- Seat at the Table (2019-2020)
- Colour Code: A podcast about race in Canada (2015-2016)
- Yellowhead Institute Reports & Briefs
- In Plain sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care
- First Peoples, second class treatment: The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada ( Wellesley Institute)
- Out of Sight: Summary of the Inquest into Brian Sinclair’s Death
- Independent Civilian Observer’s Report on investigation of complaints of law enforcement abuses involving Indigenous people. (2020)
INQUIRIES:
- Public Inquiry Commission on relations between Indigenous Peoples and certain public services in Québec (2019, "Viens Report" on mistreatment of Indigenous peoples in healthcare and more) | Summary Report
- Guide to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry (2019)
- Guide to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission Inquiry (2015)
- Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq (Qikiqtani Truth Commission): Final Report, Qikiqtani Inuit Association (2014)
- Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996)
- Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- Concordia's Anti-Racist Pedagogy Project
- Concordia Library Call for Submissions: Take a Moment for Representation: An Anti-Racism Series
- ABC's of Canadian Black history kit
- Concordia's Black Perspectives Initiative
- How anti-Black racism on Canadian university campuses robs us all (the Conversation)
- byblacks.com: Can We Talk About Canada's Racism Problem At Universities?
- Scholar's Strike Canada
- #BLM Campaign Town Hall (Community Consultation) Concordia Student Union
- White Academia: Do Better
- 10 Ways For Non-Black Academics to Value Black Lives.
- Working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources
- There Is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times
- Disrupting Whiteness in Libraries and Librarianship: A Reading List
- 5 Steps to Take as an Antiracist Data Scientist
- Racial and Social Equity Resources - Revelations in Education
- Research-based Resources to Help You Teach, Talk, and Learn About Structural Racism
[advisory that these are provided/promoted by SAGE, a for-profit academic publisher] - Concordia guide: Indigenous Education Resources for Faculty
- Structures of Indifference : an Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City
- Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice
- Fishing in contested waters : place and community in Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj
- Under-served : health determinants of Indigenous, inner-city, and migrant populations in Canada (print book)
- Fighting for a hand to hold : confronting medical colonialism against indigenous children in Canada
- Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (print book)
- Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism (print book)
- Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health: Beyond the Social (print book)
- Until We Are Free : Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada
- They said this would be fun : race, campus life, and growing up
- The skin we're in : a year of black resistance and power (print book on order)
- Are prisons obsolete? (free ebook, Angela Davis, 2003)
- A Space for Race : Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism, and Post-Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond
- Policing Black Lives (print book) (epub$ Fernwood Publishing) | Noires sous surveillance (ebook on order)
- Viola Desmond's Canada : a history of blacks and racial segregation in the promised land (print book) (epub$ Fernwood Publishing)
- How to be an antiracist (print book) (ebook at BANQ library or for sale online)
- Race, space, and the law : unmapping a white settler society
- Discourses of denial : mediations of race, gender, and violence
- (chapter) Indigenous & Black Solidarity in Practice: #BLMTOTentCity. In: New framings on anti-racism and resistance V2: Resistance and the new futurity
- White fragility : why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism (print book)
- Blackhood against the police power: punishment and disavowal in the "post-racial" era
- White people and Black Lives Matter : ignorance, empathy, and justice
- Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race
- Uprooting racism : how white people can work for racial justice
- (chapter) The Role of the Press in the Reproduction of Racism
- Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment
- Black Sexualities : Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies
- Black genders and sexualities
- Freedom is a constant struggle
- White Privilege
- Habits of Whiteness : A Pragmatist Reconstruction
- As Black As Resistance : Finding the Conditions for Liberation
- The Fire Next Time
- Cartographies of race and social difference
- The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America
- The art of protest : culture and activism from the Civil Rights movement to the present
- A Perilous Path : Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
- Police use of force : important issues facing the police and the communities they serve
- Systemic racism : making liberty, justice, and democracy real
- Systemic Racism : A Theory of Oppression
- Systemic racism in the United States : scaffolding as social construction
- Mourning in America : Race and the Politics of Loss
- The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness (ebook at BANQ library)
[print only at Concordia] - Violence against queer people : race, class, gender, and the persistence of anti-LGBT discrimination
Encyclcopedias:
- The Skin We're In (CBC gem, featuring Desmond Cole)
- Ninth floor (NFB, 1969 Computer Centre Occupation at Concordia)
- RDS vs. A Story of Race and Justice (CBC curio)
- Zero tolerance (NFB, Montreal police racial profiling)
- I am not your Negro (Kanopy)
- Concordia Streaming server:
- More films at Concordia about race and racisms
- CBC gem docs: race, racism and policing in North America
- TEDx talks to educate on racism
CANADIAN & International news sources:
- Canadian Newsstream
- ProQuest Combined Canadian
- Canadian Periodical Index (CPI-Q)
- Factiva: Full text of international newspapers
- Eureka.cc: Full text access to Québec and international daily newspapers.
CANADIAN
- Anti-Black/Racism Resources MTL (revised 2020)
- Resource Recommendations Relating to Anti-Black and Anti-Indigenous Racism (University of Manitoba)
- Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression (University of Victoria)
- Anti-Black Racism Reading List (Queen's University)
- Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism: Critical Histories: Focus on Canada (U of Waterloo)
- They Said This Would be Fun: Resources to Extend Your Learning (X University)
- Black Lives Matter (University of Toronto)
- Black Lives Matter (Columbia College, BC)
- Anti-Racism Resource Guide (McMaster)
- Brock: Anti-Black Racism & White Privilege
- UofA: Black Livers Matter Recommendations
- See also:
- First Peoples studies & Indigenous educational resources (Concordia Guides)
- The untold stories of Montreal: Black community | Chinese community | Indigenous communities
- Celebrating Black Narratives ( reading list jointly curated with Guelph Black Students Association)
ELSEWHERE
