Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous & Systemic Racism

updated April 15, 2021

• CBC Feb. 26: Black Lives Matter activists say now is the time to act on promises from 2020 (featuring Marlihan Lopez and Robyn Maynard)
• APTN news Feb. 25: Clean Water, Broken Promises  - Collaborative investigation on water issues in First Nations involving Concordia Insitute for Investigative Journalism
• Warrior Life Feb. 25: Cindy Blackstock on compensation for First Nations kids
• The Tyee Feb 23: Vancouver Police to Review Own Violent Arrests at Indigenous Pipeline Protest | Open letter regarding the violent arrests of Braided Warriors on February 19
• Ricochet Feb. 17: The other side of ‘cancel culture:’ Students open up about racial abuse on campus
• CBC Feb. 4 : Police officer acquitted in fatal shooting of Bony Jean-Pierre in Montréal-Nord 
   *see recent scholarly articles  and Robyn Maynard blog post for critical analysis of issues around this case
• CBC: Montreal police say arrest, 6-night detention of man was not case of racial profiling 
• The Link: Protestors demand defunding of police after killing of Sheffield Matthews
• CBC: Protesters gather in NDG to mourn Black man shot and killed by Montreal police | Students call for systemic change in wake of N-word controversy at University of Ottawa | Quebec's heated debate over professor's suspension overlooked Black voices
• byblacks.com: Can We Talk About Canada's Racism Problem At Universities?
  
• Maya Johnson, CTV:  For Black people, pain often hidden is now in plain sight

• Building A Safe Place For Homeless (Eastern Door Feb. 9)
• ‘We’re a big family’: Community rallies to erect warming tent for homeless (Richochet Feb. 3)
• Petition and collection of news stories: Amnesty For Individuals Living Unhoused From Quebec's Curfew Fines (scroll down beneath the description to find a dozen links to related news stories)
  
  
• APTN news: Mi'kmaw fishing rights  | Policing in Canada | 1492 Land back Lane | Joyce Echaquan
• CBC: Violent opposition to Mi'kmaw fishery 'nothing new'...racism a part of this,  Miawpukek chief chief says
• Ku'ku'kwes news NovaSoctia
• *see related books about fishing rights and racism below**
• CTV Realities of Racism: Fighting Indigenous Racism
• CBC news: Indigenous  |  Being Black in Canada

• Yellowhead Institute: 
  -Happy New Year To Everyone But Non-Status Kids
  -Banking While Brown: Indigenous People And Structural Racism In Canada
  -Peace, Friendship And Fishing In Mi’kma’ki
  -Mi’kmaq And The Recognition And Implementation Of Rights Framework (2018)
  -How do we solve Structural Racism? A 5X5 Review
  -Recommendations related to structural racism
  -Police Brutality In Canada: A Symptom Of Structural Racism And Colonial Violence
  -White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass Incarceration for Indigenous and Black Peoples in Canada
  -Statement Regarding Arrests At 1492 Land Back Lane

• Independent Civilian Observer’s Report on investigation of complaints of law enforcement abuses involving Indigenous people:
  • REPORT: English summary | French summary | full French report
  • CBC: Quebec's police watchdog 'unacceptably opaque' in probing abuse against Indigenous people, report finds
• Ricochet: Indigenous women have ‘unfinished business’ years after Val d’Or police abuse scandal.
   
• The Meaning of Force: An Investigations reveals racism in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police by Brittany Guyot in: The Anti-Indigenous Handbook: A global project shows most common attacks on Indigenous Peoples 
  
• Systemic Racism Exists In Canada. It’s A Fact, Not An Opinion (huffpost)
• Black Organizations And Anti-Racist Groups Canadians Can Support Now
• Sandy Hudson: Defunding The Police Will Save Black And Indigenous Lives In Canada
• Canada’s Oka Crisis marked a change in how police use force
• Concordia CSU Panel: Police Climate and COVID-19 with Ellen Gabriel, Sandy Hudson, Harsha Walia (starts @ 14:42)
• Angela Sterritt: 'It's putting a Band-Aid on a broken leg': Indigenous leaders say police training inept, join calls to defund
• Distinct histories, shared solidarity: Two Black and Indigenous activists’ reflections on land, policing, and gender
• Race, Crime and Justice in Canada
• Robyn Maynard: It’s long-past time to talk about policing of Black women in Canada
• Marlihan Lopez: Police abolition is a feminist issue
• Maija Kappler: Racism In Canada Is Ever-Present, But We Have A Long History Of Denial
• Debra Thompson: My Black My Black ancestors fled America for freedom. I left Canada to find a home...
• Pam Palmater: Yes, Canada Has a Racism Crisis and its Killing Black and Indigenous People
• Robin Maynard: Black Life and Death across the US-Canada Border: Border Violence, Black Fugitive Belonging, and a Turtle Island View of Black Liberation
• Hawa Y Mire: Why Black Canadians don't believe Trudeau and Canada
• Austin Clarke (1963): A Black Man Talks About Race Prejudice in White Canada
• Collecitif: 11 brefs essais contre le racisme (éditions Sommes Toutes)
• CBC Community:  Hear More Black Voices

Healthcare, COVID-19 and inequity
news, reports, analysis, scholarly sources:

• APTN:
  • First Nations say Quebec’s plan to tackle racism won’t have lasting effect
  • COVID-19
  • Joyce Echaquan
• CBC: Ex-Montreal police inspector takes over as Quebec's Indigenous affairs minister | Quebec doctor asks peers to 'stop dragging our feet' in fight against systemic racism | Quebec faces pressure to act against anti-Indigenous racism after Joyce Echaquan's death |  Racism at Quebec hospital reported long before troubling death of Atikamekw woman
• Indigenous Health Centre of Tiohtià:ke petition to  denounce systemic racism in Quebec and promote the establishment of a health centre dedicated to the Indigenous Community

INQUIRIES & REPORTS:

• 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
• Nov. 30:  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
• See also: Guide to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry

COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS, COVID-19 & more:

• Yellowhead Institute: Happy New Year To Everyone But Non-Status Kids: Jordan’s Principle & Canada’s Persistent Discrimination
• Tanya Talaga: How much more pain does Canada need to see before progress is made for Indigenous people?
• Roberta Timothy: Coronavirus is not the great equalizer — race matters | anti-black racism and COVID 19 (interview)
• Healing Racism in Canadian Healthcare  (from the Canadian Medical Association Journal)
• Alejandro Hernandez: Some factors that can help to explain why six Montreal boroughs are Canada’s COVID-19 epicenter | en français
• Sierra Fonseca: Institutional Racism in Canada: Indigenous Lived Realities
• Montreal's poorest and most racially diverse neighbourhoods hit hardest by COVID-19, data analysis shows
• One country, two pandemics
• 11 essays, Royal Society of Canada: Impact of COVID-19 in Racialized Communities
  including: 
  • Effect on Black Communities in Quebec 
  • Racial Inequity and The Education Of Black And Other Marginalized Students 
  • A Historical Account of the Pandemic: Health, Colonialism and Racism in Canada 
  • COVID-19, Systemic Racism, Racialization and the Lives of Black People
• COVID-19: Disarm the Police, Rebuild our Communities (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)

SCHOLARLY SOURCES:

• Structures of Indifference : an Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City (ebook)
• Transcultural Health Practices of Emergency Nurses Working With Indigenous Peoples: A Descriptive Study
• “I Guess I Shouldn’t Come Back Here”: Racism and Discrimination as a Barrier to Accessing Health and Social Services for Urban Métis Women in Toronto, Canada
• “They treated me like crap and I know it was because I was Native”: The healthcare experiences of Aboriginal peoples living in Vancouver's inner city
• Understanding barriers to health care access through cultural safety and ethical space: Indigenous people's experiences in Prince George, Canada
• Access to Primary Care From the Perspective of Aboriginal Patients at an Urban Emergency Department
• Colonial Legacies and Collaborative Action: Improving Indigenous Peoples’ Health Care in Canada
• Moving beyond description: Closing the health equity gap by redressing racism impacting Indigenous populations
• Perspectives on Indigenous cultural competency and safety in Canadian hospital emergency departments: A scoping review
• 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)

• Concordia Library Call for Submissions: Take a Moment for Representation: An Anti-Racism Series 
• Petition: Statement of BIPOC Caucus at the University of Ottawa
  
• Students call for systemic change in wake of N-word controversy at University of Ottawa
• byblacks.com: New Teaching Guide Aims To Fill The Void Of Black Canadian History In Schools |  at Concordia:  ABC's of Canadian Black history kit
• Concordia's Black Perspectives Initiative
  •  Panel on Anti-Racism Organizing
• 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
• Jordan Gray: I fight anti-Black, anti-Indigenous racism with academic excellence - reflects on his experiences at high school and university
• Teaching to Transgress  by bell hooks
• White Academia: Do Better
• Land-grab universities. Nearly 11 million acres of Indigenous land. Approximately 250 tribal nations. Over 160 violence-backed treaties and land seizures. Fifty-two universities. Discover the bloody history behind land-grant universities.
• 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
• Anti-Oppression Resources (Continuing Education, Somatic Trauma Institute)
• 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] 
• Black Life Matters: Anti-Racism Resources for Social Workers and Therapists
• Concordia guide: Indigenous Education Resources for Faculty

• Media Indigena: The fishy fight against Mi’kmaw rights
• Seat at the Table with Martine St-Victor and Isabelle Racicot.  Season 2: BLM in Canada
  • Being Black in Media with Roxane Gay
  • BLM in Canada with Sandy Hudson + Defunding the Police and Abolition with Robyn Maynard
• Sandy & Nora Talk Politics:
  
  • Is white supremacy intensifying?
  • White supremacy and racial frauds
  • Abolish the police
• Warrior life with Pamela Palmater:
  • Cindy Blackstock on compensation for First Nations kids
  • El-Jones on Anti-Black Racism
  • Defund the Police
  • Robyn Maynard on Police Anti-Black Racism & Violence
  • Desmond Cole on Anti-Black Racism in Canada & US
• The 'looting' of America (Media Indigena podcast) 
• Colour Code: A podcast about race in Canada (see especially: The Angel Complex, 2Legit, Eggshells)
• The Secret Life of Canada podcast  (recent episodes: The Mounties Always Get Their, Kanesatake 300 Years Later Black Nurses in Canada)

• On Being:
  • Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem in Conversation 
  • Resmaa Menakem: ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’
• A Decade of Watching Dead People Die (Codeswitch podcast)
  [you can research the stories referenced in the podcast using our article databases]
• Sherman James on How Racism Kills Black Americans  (Social Distance podcast)
• 5 Podcasts To Listen To If You Really Want To Know About Race In America
• Seeing White podcast
   

• 5 Racist Anti-Racism Responses “Good” White Women Give to Viral Posts
• Ways to be involved in the fight against racism and support #BlackLivesMatter outside of protesting
• Ibram X. Kendi: The heartbeat of racism is denial
• Between Mascots and Massacres (Medium)
• The Language of Antiracism (Yes Magazine) -  Excerpted from Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter by Candis Watts Smith and Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
• Kẏra: How to Uphold White Supremacy by Focusing on Diversity and Inclusion - Liberalism’s inherent racism

• 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
  
  
• Until We Are Free : Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada
• 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:

• Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
• Encyclopedia of race and racism

• 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)
• Zotero tolerance (NFB, Montreal police racial profiling)
• I am not your Negro (Kanopy)
• Concordia Streaming server:
  • Criminal Queers 
  • MAJOR!   
  • Black Men Loving
  • Audre Lorde: Litany for Survival
• More films at Concordia about race and racisms
• CBC gem docs: race, racism and policing in North America
• TEDx talks to educate on racism

• Race Relations Abstracts
• Academic Search Complete
  
• SOCIndex
• Google Scholar
   

• 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.