General Resources
Articles and Essays
- The Office of the Vice-Provost (EDI) launches introductory module on equity, diversity and inclusion | The Quad (May 11, 2023)
- 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)
- 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
- 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 at School
- 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
- Deepening Knowledge
- Embrace Race | @embracerace
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Guide
- Federation of Black Canadians | @fbcfcn
- Hogan’s Alley Society | @hogans.alley
- Justice in June
- National Congress of Black Women BC | @ncbwf_bc
- Teaching Tolerance | @teaching_tolerance
- The Conscious Kid | @theconsciouskid
- The Great Unlearn | @thegreatunlearn
- The Most Nurtured | @themostnurtured
- Unicorn Riot | @unicorn.riot