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Books and Articles – Racism

Books

• The skin we’re in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power (Desmond Cole)
• How to be an antiracist (Kendi, Ibram X.)
• Balancing Competing Human Rights Claims in a Diverse Society (Ontario Human Rights Commission, Shaheen Azmi, Lorne Foster, Lesley Jacobs)
• Until we are free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (Diverlus, Rodney)
• So you want to talk about race (Ijeoma Oluo)
• Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor (Saad, Layla F)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness (Robyn Maynard)
• Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race (Beverly Daniel Tatum)
• Blank (M. NourbeSe Philip)
• North of the Color Line (Sarah-Jane Mathieu)
• Queer Returns (Rinaldo Walcott)
• Policing Black Lives (Robyn Maynard)
• I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (David Chariandy)
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo)
• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Resmaa Menakem)
• Me and White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)

Articles

• Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism
• ‘The weight of change should not rest on the shoulders of Black people’
• Why the Black struggle in Canada has all but been erased. Two historians explain our blind spot
• Chronicle of Higher Education – A Call to Action
• What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility With Robin DiAngelo
• If Black lives truly matter in Canada, an apology for slavery is only a first step
• ‘The weight of change should not rest on the shoulders of Black people’
• Campus Toolkit for Combatting Racism (PDF, 2.01 MB)

Anti-Semitism

• OHRC statement on the National Summit on Antisemitism
• Factsheet – Antisemitism in Canada
• Understanding and Countering Antisemitism
• Interfaith Alliance – Antisemitism
• Antisemitism in Our Midst: Past and Present
• Teaching Materials on Antisemitism and Racism
• Addressing antisemitism through education (UNESCO)

Islamophobia

• OHRC statement on the National Summit on Islamophobia
• Combatting Islamophobia in Canada
• Islamophobia
• International Day to Combat Islamophobia
• Islamophobia in Our Schools
• Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Factsheet

Allyship and Combating Hate

• Preventing Discrimination Based on Creed
• Taking action to build awareness and challenge hate in Ontario
• Guide to Allyship
• Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How
• 5 tips for being an ally
• The Canadian Museum of Human Rights – Us vs. Them: The process of othering
• Interfaith Alliance – Partnering Against Hate
• Islamic Networks Group – Maintaining an Inclusive Workplace
• Police-reported hate crime in Canada, 2021
• Solutions not Sides: A critical approach to education on the Israeli-Pealestinian conflict
• Racial harassment: know your rights (brochure)

Books and Articles – Gender and Sexual Diversity

Books

• Books and Articles – Gender and Sexual Diversity Non-Binary Lives – An Anthology of Intersecting Identities (Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Baker, Kat Gupta)
• Not Straight, Not White (Kevin J. Mumford)
• “We are not expected” Trans*educators re claiming space and voice in higher education and student affairs. (Jurian, T. J., Simmons, S. L., & Devaney, K. C. (2015). TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2, 431–446.)

Articles

• Some Very Basic Tips for Making Higher Education More Accessible to Trans Students and Rethinking How We Talk about Gendered Bodies By Dean Spade (PDF, 66.7 KB)
• Mapping the Void: Two-Spirit and LGBTIQ+ Experiences in Hamilton (PDF, 3.36 MB)
• Safe spaces, explained (Emily Crockett)
• The Trans PULSE Canada Team (2020). Health and health care access for trans and non-binary people in Canada

Books and Articles – Disability and Anti-Ableism

Books

• Nothing about Us, Without Us (James I. Charlton)
• Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice (Michelle R. Nario-Redmond)
• Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (Jay T. Dolmage)
• Privilege, Power and Difference (Allan G. Johnson)
• Privilege: A Reader (Michael S. Kimmel & Abby L. Ferber, eds.)
• Building Access (Aimi Hamraie)
• Contours of Ableism (Fiona Kumari Campbell and Fiona Kumari Campbell)
• Disfigured (Amanda Leduc)

Articles

• Person-First and Identity-First Language
• Understanding and unlearning ableism is an ongoing process and one we must work on day-to-day
• Canadian Disability Policies in a World of Inequalities

Educational links – 101, Racism, Anti-Ableism, Sexual and Gender Identity

• Ontario Human Rights Commission E-Learning
  • Human Rights 101
  • Competing human rights
  • Racism and Human Rights
  • Ableism and Human Rights
  • Duty to accommodate
• Policy on Preventing Discrimination and Harassment because of Sexual Orientation (PDF, 221 KB)
• Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability
• Accessibility Resources for Instructors
• Canadian Human Rights Commission Webinars
• Ontario Human Rights Commission eLearning: Call it out: racism, racial discrimination and human rights
• Cole, Desmond. The Skin We’re In, CBC documentary, 2017
• Parris, Amanda. Black Light [weekly series], CBC
• Jaku Konbit, African History Classes
• Campus Tool-kit for Combatting Racism (Canadian Federation of
  Students) (PDF, 2.21 MB)
• Robin DiAngelo, Anti-Racism Hand-out (PDF, 429 KB)
• Ontario Human Rights Commission eLearning: Call it out: racism, racial discrimination and human rights
• Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Education
• Gender Diversity Crash Course
• Policy on preventing discrimination based on creed
• Berkeley University Anti-Semitism Training

Community Resources

• Department of Equity and Inclusive Communities (EIC)
• Campus Safety Services
• Health and Counselling
• Ontario Human Rights Commission
• Black Youth Helpline (1.833.294.8650)
• 2SLGBTQ Youthline
• Trans LifeLine 24 Hr Crisis Line (1.877.330.6366 – toll-free)