You will find here a list of links with information on racism with en emphasis on Canadian resources. This is a work in progress. Please send us your links/resources to help populate this page: info@can-acn.org
Websites
The On Canada Project – Settlers take action
https://oncanadaproject.ca/settlerstakeaction
Doing justice by Black Canadians
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2018/doing-justice-by-black-canadians/
Black Experiences in Health Care Symposium – Report from January 2020
https://www.healthcommons.ca/blackhealth
National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health: Understanding racism
https://www.nccih.ca/495/Understanding_racism.nccih?id=103
All National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health publications on racism
https://www.nccih.ca/34/Publication.nccih?cat=24
Centre for race and culture
https://cfrac.com/publications/anti-racism-education-in-canada-best-practices/
Fact sheet on racial discrimination, race and racism (Ontario human rights commission)
http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/racial-discrimination-race-and-racism-fact-sheet
Setting the context: understanding race, racism and racial discrimination
http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/policy-and-guidelines-racism-and-racial-discrimination/part-1-%E2%80%93-setting-context-understanding-race-racism-and-racial-discrimination
Peggy McIntosh’s foundational article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
Government of Canada anti-racism engagement resource page
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/anti-racism-engagement/resources.html
Racial Equity Tools
https://www.racialequitytools.org/home
Guide to Acknowledging First Peoples & Traditional Territory – Canadian Association of University Teachers
https://www.caut.ca/content/guide-acknowledging-first-peoples-traditional-territory
Anti-racism resources shared by the UBC Centre for community-engaged learning https://ccel.ubc.ca/
bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES
Wellesley Institute: First Peoples, Second Class Treatment (PDF, 3MB)
This report from the Wellesley Institute outlines the role race plays in the health of indigenous people in Canada.
BMC Health Services Research: “Enhancing health care equity with Indigenous populations: evidence-based strategies from an ethnographic study”
This research offers strategies for promoting health equity among indigenous populations in Canada and internationally.
More Racial Equity Resources at teach.com:
https://teach.com/resources/racial-equity-resources/
Books
An anti-racist reading list – NYT 2019-05-29
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html?smid=tw-share
More books:
- White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566247/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/ reviewed here https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-sociologist-examines-the-white-fragility-that-prevents-white-americans-from-confronting-racism)
- Me and White Supremacy – Layla F. Saad (http://laylafsaad.com/meandwhitesupremacy)
- Women, Race, & Class – Angela Y. Davis (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/37354/women-race-and-class-by-angela-y-davis/)
- So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
- How to be an antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Austin Channing Brown
- The Great Unlearn – Rachel Cargle
Films
National Film Board Anti-Racism films
https://www.nfb.ca/playlist/anti-racism-films/
- When They See Us
- 13th
- I Am Not Your Negro
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Cry Freedom
- Mississippi Burning
- Invictus
- Selma
- Dear White People
Northwestern University Counseling blog post on racial trauma in film
- “Racial Trauma in Film: How Viewers Can Address Re-traumatization”: https://counseling.northwestern.edu/blog/racial-trauma-retraumatization-film/
Scientific articles
A reading list of articles for psychologists, compiled by Jin X Goh – June 1, 2020 https://twitter.com/JinXunGoh/status/1267596925395755009
- Richeson & Sommers (2015) Toward a Social Psychology of Race and Race Relations for the Twenty-First Century, in Annual Review of Psychology 67(1) · September 2015
- Salter, Adams, & Perez (2017) Racism in the Structure of Everyday Worlds: A Cultural-Psychological Perspective https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0963721417724239
- Trawalter, Bart-Plange, & Hoffman (2020) A socioecological psychology of racism: making structures and history more visible https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.06.029
- Kraus & Torrez (2020) Current Opinion: A Psychology of Power That is Embedded in Societal Structures https://t.co/8L8mSlyRJI?amp=1
- Jones & Dovidio (2018) Social Issues and Policy Reviews: Change, Challenge, and Prospects for a Diversity Paradigm in Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12039
Mental health resources
Toronto public health published Mental Health Resources for Black communities
Across Boundaries
http://www.acrossboundaries.ca/
Black Creek Community Health Centre
https://www.bcchc.com/
The Black Health Alliance
http://blackhealthalliance.ca/
Caribbean African Canadian Social Services
https://cafcan.org/
Rexdale Community Health Centre
https://www.rexdalechc.com/
TAIBU Community Health Centre
http://taibuchc.ca/en/home/
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands
http://www.whiwh.com/
Podcasts
- Code Switch – NPR
- 1619 – The New York Times
- Pod Save the People – Crooked Media
