Anti-Racism Committee | Department of Humanities

The Anti-Racism Committee aims to help community members learn more about the anti-racism resources and recommended readings available to them. Resources on this page address immediate challenges facing BIPOC students, but also provide educational readings that inform and critique historical and ongoing discriminatory barriers in society.

We update this list throughout the year. Please keep checking back for more resources.

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Resources

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Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion

Promotes and builds a respectful, equitable, diverse and inclusive university community.

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Student Community & Leadership Development Anti-Racist Resources

Student Community & Leadership Development anti-racist resources document with links to useful information that amplify BIPOC voices.

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Blackline

Offers peer support, counseling, and assistance for BIPOC individuals impacted by systematic oppression with a 2SLGBTQI+ and Black Femme Lens.

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Across Boundaries

Mental health for racialized communities, including 2SLGBTQI+ individuals. Toll-free number is 1-800-604-5841.

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Hope for Wellness

Indigenous support online. Offers immediate help to all Indigenous people across Canada. Counseling available in Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut.

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Good2Talk

Confidential support services for post-secondary students in Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Recommended Readings

Canada’s race problem? It’s even worse than America’s (Maclean’s, Gilmore, 2020)

Should we still be saying ‘BAME’ in 2021? (Evening Standard, 2021)

‘Don’t call me BAME’: Why some people are rejecting the term (BBC, 2020)

As multi-ethnic population in Canada rises, complications arise for families (The Globe and Mail, Bascaramurty, 2018)

The American Nightmare / To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction (Ibram X Kendi, 2020)

Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference (PDF) (Audre Lorde – Paper delivered at the Copeland Colloquium, Amerst College, April 1980 / Reproduced in: Sister Outsider Crossing Press, California 1984)

Being Biracial: Figuring Out Where is Home (Gittelman, 2018)

What White Colleagues Need to Understand / White supremacy doesn’t stop at the teachers’ lounge door (Learning for Justice, 2020)

What Anti-racism Really Means for Educators (Learning for Justice, 2020)

All Students Need Anti-racism Education (Learning for Justice, 2020)

For White Allies in Search of a Solution to American Racism / When Folks of Color Are Exhausted (Learning for Justice, 2017)

Begin Within / Prepare yourself to discuss race, racism and other difficult topics with students (Learning for Justice, 2016)

An Ongoing List of Ways to Join the Anti-Racist Fight (AnOther, 2020) – Great list of books and films

Violence, racism, mental health – Where do we go from here? (CAMH, 2016)