Resource List provided by the B.S.S.N.
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A Different Booklist - https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/
Notability - https://www.notability.ca/
Knowledge Bookstore - https://www.knowledgebookstore.com/
AK Press - https://www.akpress.org/
Haymarket Books - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/
Verso Books - https://www.versobooks.com/
Learn the basics.
Books
killing rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
White Supremacy and Me by Layla Saad
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware
They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
Videos
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3DoYiL7X_N1Ta1o4HE9Mlg
Ask a Black Dude by Gabriel Green - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRKbs1GB1R4
All Lives Matter, 1800s Edition by Anthony McPherson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGR0ihYux6w
The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxbl5QgFZw
Articles
White people say they want to be an ally to Black people. But are they ready for sacrifice? by Kelsey Smoot - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/29/white-people-ally-black-people-sacrifice
Black Lives Matter: four lessons in white allyship from the South African anti-apartheid movement by Leonie Fleischmann and Matthew Graham - https://theconversation.com/black-lives-matter-four-lessons-in-white-allyship-from-the-south-african-anti-apartheid-movement-141555
How White People Can Hold Each Other Accountable to Stop Institutional Racism (Teen Vogue) - https://www.teenvogue.com/story/white-people-can-hold-each-other-accountable-to-stop-institutional-racism
Resources
Anti-Racism Resources for Social Workers and Therapists - https://www.socialwork.career/2020/06/anti-racism-resources-for-social-workers-and-therapists.html
Black Lives Matter Canada - https://blacklivesmatter.ca/
Standing Up For Racial Justice (Toronto) - https://surjtoronto.com/
Canadian Anti-racism Network - https://stopracism.ca/
Get deeper into theory.
Books
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Articles
New Cartographies: Power to the Young People by Ashley Marshall - https://rungh.org/new-cartographies-power-to-the-young-people/
Who Is a Settler, According to Indigenous and Black Scholars by Ashley-Rae Thomas - https://www.vice.com/en/article/gyajj4/who-is-a-settler-according-to-indigenous-and-black-scholars
The Sociology of Racism by Matthew Clair and Jeffrey S. Denis - https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/matthewclair/files/clair_denis_2015.pdf
Videos
How to talk about anti-racism by the Art Gallery of Ontario - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFlcQTucxzs&feature=emb_title
The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw- https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en
Understand police/prison abolitionism.
Books
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Davis
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Assassination of Fred Hampton by Jeffrey Haas
Articles
How I Became a Police Abolitionist (The Atlantic) - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/how-i-became-police-abolitionist/613540/
Reckoning with Violence by Michelle Alexander (The New York Times) - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/opinion/violence-criminal-justice.html
11 Things You Can Do To Help Black Lives Matter End Police Violence (Teen Vogue) - https://www.teenvogue.com/story/support-the-black-lives-matter-movement
Movies/Documentaries
13th (Ava DuVernay)
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch)
Understand economic issues and reparations
Articles
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
When They Steal Your Land, They Steal Your Future by Todd Lewan and Dolores Barclay - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-02-mn-10514-story.html
Black Wealth Cratered Under Obama by Matt Bruenig – https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2017/09/27/new-fed-data-black-wealth-cratered-under-obama/
A Wealth Tax for Canada? By Daniel Tencer - https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/wealth-tax-canada-poll_ca_5fb7ec50c5b625a2ae66dbda
Books
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr and A. Kirsten Mullen
Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations by Roy L. Brooks
Learn about prominent Black figures and movements.
Books
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
Assata by Assata Shakur
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin
The Hanging of Angélique by Afua Cooper
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Movies/Documentaries
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack)
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson)
I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin, Raoul Peck)
Explore issues in policy-making and the media.
Articles
The Majority of Canadians Support a Green New Deal - https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/04/17/majority-of-canadians-support-a-green-new-deal-poll-finds.html
Liberals' C51 Reform, C59, weakens journalism -https://www.cjfe.org/national_security_acts_like_pop_acts_require_all_the_right_notes
'Journalism while brown': Why Sunny Dhillon quit The Globe and Mail - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4885734/journalism-while-brown-why-sunny-dhillon-quit-the-globe-and-mail-1.4885862
CBC wrong to fire reporter who told news site he was forced to delete tweet critical of Don Cherry: arbitrator - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/khan-cbc-canadaland-tweet-cherry-fired-arbitor-1.5873539
Desmond Cole’s Decision to Leave the Toronto Star Suggests a Double Standard on Activism - https://j-source.ca/article/desmond-coles-decision-to-leave-the-toronto-star-suggests-a-double-standard-on-activism/