Anti-Racism Resources
This ever-growing list was created by the Intercultural Ambassadors to provide educational materials and recommendations that will help you learn and unlearn matters of equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism. If you have suggestions for how to update and improve the list, please email intercultural@tru.ca
Websites
- Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
- Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard
- White fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole
- Black Life: Post Black Lives Matter and the Struggle for Freedom by Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi
- Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
- https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
- https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
- https://www.welcometostratagem.com/post/10-habits-of-someone-who-doesn-t-know-they-re-anti-black
Videos
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- What is it Like to Be a Girl of Color?
- Race: the Power of Illusion
- Let's Get Uncomfortable: It's Time to Talk About Race
- The Lie that Invented Racism
- What systemic racism in Canada looks like
Podcasts
- About Race
- 1619 (New York Times)
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
- Colonization Road
- The Skin Were In
- 8th Fire
- Think Indigenous
-
All My Relations
- New Fire
- The Henceforward
- Unreserved
- Red Man Laughing
Articles
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
- How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids
- In Conversation: Desmond Cole and Téa Mutonji
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- Indigenous Ally Toolkit
- What Riding my Bike has Taught me about White Privilege
- Systemic Racism. Let's Talk about it
Books
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins TRU Library Access
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper TRU Library Access
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon TRU Library Access
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi TRU Library Access
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou TRU Library Access
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson TRU Library Access
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- The Antiracist Bookshelf - a list of books on Systemic Racism
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde TRU Library Access
- Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese TRU Library Access
- 21 Things you may not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph TRU Library Access
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer TRU Library Access
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King TRU Library Access
- Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada by Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J. Barker TRU Library Access
- Unsettling Canada by Arthur Manuel TRU Library Access
- Unsettling the Settler Within by Paulette Regan TRU Library Access
- My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle TRU Library Access
- Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talafa TRU Library Access
- Godless but Loyal to Heaven by Richard Van Camp TRU Library Access
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo TRU Library Access
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Whose Land is it Anyway: A Manual for Decolonization TRU Library Access
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin TRU Library Access
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander TRU Library Access
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs TRU Library Access
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson TRU Library Access
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston TRU Library Access
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD TRU Library Access
Films and TV series'
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) - Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
- King In The Wilderness — HBO
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- Rhymes for Young Ghouls – CBC Gem
- Future History – CBC Gem
- Kayak to Klemtu – Crave
- Indian Horse – Crave
- Our People will be Healed – Amazon Prime
- Stolen – Amazon Prime
- Falls Around Her – Crave
- Spirit to Soar – CBC Gem
- Mohawk Girls – CBC Gem
- National Film Board Collection: Black Communities in Canada
- National Film Board Collection: Indigenous Cinema
- Kanehsatake270 Years of Resistance
More films on Diversity & Social Justice
Immigration, Assimilation, and Acculturation
- El Norte
- Rabbit Proof Fence
- Lost Boys of Sudan
- Abandoned: The Betrayal of America’s Immigrants
- Farmingville
- The Gatekeeper
- Split Decision
- Banana Split
- Real Women Have Curves
- A Better Life
- Kite Runner
- The Visitor
- Smoke Signals
Issues of Race and Ethnicity
- 4 Little Girls
- Do the Right Thing
- Mi Familia
- Smoke Signals
- Beloved In America
- Joy Luck Club
- Rosewood
- The Help
- American History X
- White Identity Theory: Origins and Prospect
- Real Women Have Curves
Institutionalized Prejudice
- Amazing Grace
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Sounder Lone Star
- Amistad
- Skin
- Come See the Paradise
- Das Experiment
- The Help
- Held in Trust: The Story of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper
- Violence: An American Tradition
- Black Like Me
- The House We Live In
Issues of Social Justice
- Bowling for Columbine
- Dead Man Walking
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- The Control Room
- In Whose Honor?
- The Jaundiced Eye
- Supporting Youth: Their Education and Survival
- Who Killed Vincent Chin?
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
- City of God
- Undefeated
Organizations to follow on social media
- Antiracism Center: Twitter
- Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
