Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous & Systemic Racism
police defunding, racism in healthcare, intersectionality
updated April 15, 2021
Anti-asian racism, mysogyny, intersectionality
- The Conversation: As Asian Canadian scholars, we must #StopAsianHate by fighting all forms of racism (April 15)
- Ricochet: Anti-racism: Asian massage and sex workers should not be left behind (March 28)
- Rabble.ca podcast: Unpacking anti-Asian racism through an intersectional lens
- scholarly articles: Migrants, minorities and economies: Transnational feminism and the Asian/Canadian woman subject - Racialized Sexism/Sexualized Racism: A Multimethod Study of Intersectional Experiences of Discrimination for Asian American Women - Understanding the discriminatory experiences of Asian American women and men - Inspection, policing, and racism: How municipal by-laws endanger the lives of Chinese sex workers in Toronto -
- books: I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom; Discourses of denial : mediations of race, gender, and violence by Yasmin Jiwani; Anti-Asian violence in North America : Asian American and Asian Canadian reflections on hate, healing, and resistance; Before I was a critic I was a human being by Amy Fung
- 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:
- 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:
- 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: - 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
- 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
- Sandy & Nora Talk Politics:
- Warrior life with Pamela Palmater:
- 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)
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
US & International Voices in Print
- 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:
- 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.