Find Resources:
Anti-Black & Systemic Racism
Police brutality, violence against Indigenous peoples
updated September 17, 2020
- Scholar's Strike Canada
- Concordia's Black Perspectives Initiative
- Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- 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
- 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
- Sandy & Nora Talk Politics:
- Warrior life with Pamela Palmater:
- The 'looting' of America (Media Indigena podcast) - on Twitter
- Colour Code: A podcast about race in Canada (see especially: The Angel Complex, 2Legit, Eggshells)
- The Secret Life of Canada podcast (recent episodes: How to Start a Revolution, Kanesatake 300 Years Later Black Nurses in Canada)
More Podcasts
- On Being:
- 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
- APTN news: Policing in Canada | 1492 Land back Lane
- Concordia Student Union Panel on YouTube: Police Climate and COVID-19 with Ellen Gabriel, Sandy Hudson, Harsha Walia (begins at 14:42)
- Canada urged to open its eyes to systemic racism in wake of police violence (The Guardian)
- Sandy Hudson: Defunding The Police Will Save Black And Indigenous Lives In Canada
- 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
- Christine Genier: statement regarding resignation from the CBC
- Robyn Maynard: It’s long-past time to talk about policing of Black women in Canada
- 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)
COVID-19 and INEQUALITY:
- Alejandro Hernandez: Some factors that can help to explain why six Montreal boroughs are Canada’s COVID-19 epicenter | en français
- Montreal's poorest and most racially diverse neighbourhoods hit hardest by COVID-19, data analysis shows
- One country, two pandemics
- Quebec housing advocates expecting catastrophic July 1st moving day
FIND MORE LOCAL VOICES:
US & International
- 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
- Until We Are Free : Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada
- A Space for Race : Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism, and Post-Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond
- 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 - Ebooks NOT available at Concordia but available elsewhere or for purchase:
- Policing Black Lives (epub$ Fernwood Publishing)
- Noires sous surveillance ebook at BANQ library
- Viola Desmond's Canada : a history of blacks and racial segregation in the promised land
(epub$ Fernwood Publishing) - The Skin We're In ebook at BANQ library
- How to be an anticist ebook at BANQ library or for sale online
- 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)
- Zotero 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.
