Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous & Systemic Racism

News sources where you might find stories dealing with many forms of racisms, and resistance.

INQUIRIES:

Cite Black Authors - Database of work authored by Black academics
We seek to enhance recognition and citation of Black academic voices. Our approach requires a shift from traditional citation practices that are passive and white-centric to active citation practices that both quantify and equilibrate racial representation.
Cite Black Women
Cite Black Women is a Black feminist intellectual project, praxis, and global movement to decolonize the practice of citation by redressing the epistemic erasure of Black women from the literal and figurative bibliographies of the world. (from Feminist Anthropology, May 2021 issue)
Decolonizing Attribution: Traditions of Exclusion
[...] a structural critique of attribution as it is figured in colonial practices and ongoing settler-colonial logics that form the basis for creating, circulating, and sharing knowledge through research practices, methods, and platforms.

CANADA:

More Than Personal Communication: Templates For Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers
An attempt to formalize something that Indigenous scholars have been doing for decades: fighting to find a better way to acknowledge our voices and knowledges within academia. Developped by Lorisia MacLeod, James Smith Cree Nation.
Reading List for Pioneers Long Before #MoiAussi: Black Women, Rape Culture, and Digital Feminist Activism in Quebec
A very local and specific example of the work being centered by the Black Women Radicals organization, which also includes a browsable Black Women Radicals Database.
Finding Indigenous voices: Approaches for discovering Indigenous scholars and authors
Though some of the links, resources and contacts named are particular to Simon Fraser University where this guide was written, many of the principles and practices can be just as useful to Concordia researchers. Contact one of us for further guidance.
Finding Indigenous Perspectives: Reverse Citation Search (UBC)
A demonstrated "cited by" search strategy in Google Scholar.
Writing & Citing Guides for Indigenous Journalism
These guidelines for journalists can also be useful for citation practices.
Citational Practices
Bibliographic essay by Daniel Heath Justice, from the book Why indigenous Literatures Matter

Aimed at educators (but also useful for researchers):

Cultivating a Conscientious Citation Practice
A post from the unwritten histories blog. More than a dozen ideas and links to useful resources.
Appropriation vs. Incorporation: Indigenous Content in the Canadian History Classroom
This post is part of a Beyond the Lecture mini-series, dedicated to the issue of teaching Indigenous history and the inclusion of Indigenous content in the classroom. Our goal is to provide resources for educators at all levels to help navigate the often fraught terrain of teaching Indigenous content.
Citation Politics (episode 51, Historical Reminiscents podcast)
In this episode I talk about the politics of citation and developing a more pro-active and critical approach to thinking about citations.
Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor)
I believe that bibliographies and endnotes and references and sources are alternative stories that can, in the most generous sense, centralize the practice of sharing ideas about liberation and resistance and writing against racial and sexual violence. Chapter from the book Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick.