Anti-Racism Resources

Table of Contents

Books on the Fundamentals of Race (US, Canadian, British authors speaking through the lens of the Black experience in a white supremacy)

Canadian Indigenous Experience in Post-Colonial White Supremacy

Women in Science

Books on the ‘To-Read’ List

Articles Specifically on Diversity, Inclusion

Additional Anti-Oppression Resources

 

Books on the Fundamentals of Race

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35099718-so-you-want-to-talk-about-race

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43708708-white-fragility

How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40265832-how-to-be-an-antiracist

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489625-between-the-world-and-me

Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal by Layla F. Saad
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55105561-me-and-white-supremacy

The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50870424-the-skin-we-re-in

Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51152447-caste

 

Canadian Indigenous Experience in Post-colonial White Supremacy 

by Kim Tallbear

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797509-the-inconvenient-indian

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40749239-a-mind-spread-out-on-the-ground

Stolen Sisters: An Inquiry into Feminicide in Canada by Emmanuelle Walter
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25362335-stolen-sisters

https://twitter.com/N8V_Calgarian/status/1350546893542068224

 

Women in Science

Picture a Scientist
https://www.pictureascientist.com
Trailer here. 

Men Explain Things by Rebecca Solnit
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528190-men-explain-things-to-me

https://www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-solnit-men-explain-things-to-me/

 

Books on the “to read” list:

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53056522-mediocre

 

Articles Specifically on Diversity, Inclusion    

https://theriveter.co/voice/the-rules-of-the-diversity-and-inclusion-racket/

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2020/01/24/desmond-cole-on-his-new-book-dismantling-racist-institutions-and-the-pablum-of-diversity.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/10-best-political-books-black-women/617630/

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/trauma-at-the-stationhttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1351135926991409154.html

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-to-end-racism-against-indigenous-peoples-we-have-to-name-it-and-speak/

https://www.macleans.ca/society/cindy-blackstock-a-relentless-champion-for-indigenous-childrens-rights/

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210108-the-signals-we-send-when-we-get-names-wrong

 

Additional Anti-Oppression Resources

https://diversity.uconn.edu/10-books-to-read-about-race/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-racism-thrives-desmond-cole-adora-nwofor-bashir-mohamed-1.5472427

https://stuartcenter.org/resource/racism-scale

https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/changing-the-framework-disability-justice/

https://transformharm.org/

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/whosesecurity
(you need to complete a short survey to receive this free resource)

https://truthout.org/articles/building-community-safety-practical-steps-toward-liberatory-transformation/

https://truthout.org/articles/what-to-do-when-you-have-been-abusive/

http://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/HFZ-NY.pdf

http://www.lynngehl.com/uploads/5/0/0/4/5004954/zainab_amadahy_and_bonita_lawrence.pdf

Racial Inequality in Academia: Systemic Origins, Modern Challenges, and Policy Recommendations
Cydney H. Dupree, C. Malik Boykin
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2372732220984183

Our Pain Is Not Your Classroom: It’s Your Wakeup Call
Jennifer Williams
https://humanparts.medium.com/our-pain-is-not-your-classroom-257a5f4dcd07