Resources for your own reading or using in your classroom
Articles and Essays
National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: Universities and schools must acknowledge how colonial education has reproduced anti-Indigenous racism | The Conversation (September 22, 2021 )
Ally Resources For Supporters Of Black Lives Matter | SWAAY (June 4, 2020)
Black Lives Matter: A guide to supporting anti-racism & human rights | Hip Hop Canada (June 4, 2020)
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
Protests, donations, lesson plans: How the education world is responding to George Floyd’s killing | Matt Barnum and Kalyn Belsha (2020)
How NYC Students and Teachers are Making Sense of George Floyd’s Killing | Alex Zimmerman and Reema Amin (2020)
Place, Land, and the Decolonization of the Settler Soul | David Addington Greenwood (2020)
A Guide to Equity and Antiracism for Educators | Hedreich Nichols (2020)
Standing in Solidarity with our Black Colleagues and Black Community in the United States | Dr. Africa Stewart (2020)
Scaffolded Anti-racist Resources
10 TED Classroom Resources About Race in America | Laura McClure (2016)
Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston | Jon Greenberg (2015)
Settler Traditions of Place: Making Explicit the Epistemological Legacy of White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism for Place-Based Education | Gardner Seawright (2014)
Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy | Gloria Ladson-Billings (1995)
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics | Kimberle Crenshaw (1989)
Decolonization is not a metaphor | Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2012)
Books
Looking for Excellent “Diverse” Books for Children? Start Here! | EmbraceRace
25 books about being Black in Canada | CBC Books (2020)
White Fragility | Robin DiAngelo (2018)
Teaching For Black Lives | Edited by Wayne Au, Jesse Hagopian and Dyan Watson (2018)
Teaching community: A pedagogy of hope | bell hooks (2003)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches | Audre Lorde (1984)
Me and White Supremacy | Layla F. Saad (2020)
Do the work: an anti-racist reading list | Layla F. Saad (2020)
Film and Video
13th | Ava DuVernay (full feature available on YouTube via Netflix)
A brief history of the Black Lives Matter movement | CBC Kids News (YouTube)
Black Communities in Canada Channel – free collection of films by award-winning Black filmmakers, creators, and allies of the Black community | National Film Board of Canada
I Am Not Your Negro – 2016 documentary based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House (official trailer, YouTube)
Websites and Instagram
Anti-Racism Coalition (ARC) Vancouver | @arc.vancouver
BC Community Alliance | @bcca_vancouver
BCTF Anti-racism Teacher Resources
Black Art Gastown | #blackartgastown
Black Girl Collective | @blackgirlcollective_
Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) | @blacklegalactioncentre
Black Lives Matter Vancouver | @blm_van
Black Vancouver | @blackvancouver
Black Women Connect Vancouver | @blackwomenconnectvancouver
Black Women in Motion | @blackwomeninmotion
Black Youth Helpline | @blackyouthhelpline
Black Youth Project | @blackyouthproject
Federation of Black Canadians | @fbcfcn
Hogan’s Alley Society | @hogans.alley
National Congress of Black Women BC | @ncbwf_bc
Teaching Tolerance | @teaching_tolerance
The Conscious Kid | @theconsciouskid
The Great Unlearn | @thegreatunlearn