Educational Resources
Building a Race-Conscious Institution: A Guide for University Leaders Enacting Anti-Racist Organizational Change
Prepared by Arig al Shaibah
for Universities Canada (July, 2022)
Updated January 21, 2022
This resource list is designed to inform Dalhousie University's community. It was designed in the wake of George Floyd's murder with the aim of providing social and historical context to the events of the summer of 2020 and for generations past. This resource guide provides tools and resources to unpack issues of justice, race, colonialism, sexualized violence, and other forms of oppression. This guide provides links to articles, papers, books, social media channels, and videos about racism and activism in Canada.
Social Justice Terms
Please note this is a non-exhaustive list of resources that we have compiled. If you are aware of additional resources not included here, please contact the Educator Advisor, Amanda Wilneff via HRES@dal.ca
Educational Resource List
Anti-Black Racism
Books
Black Canadian Authors:
Burnley "Rocky" Jones Revolutionary by Burnley "Rocky" Jones & James St. G. Walker
There's Something in the Water by Ingrid Waldron
Live from the Afrikan Resistance by El Jones
The Hanging of Angelique by Afua Cooper
Black Like Who? By Rinaldo Walcott
The Skin We're In By Desmond Cole
Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard
Riot by Andrew Moodie
Bluesprint by Wayde Compton
Dear Pholomena by Mugabi Byenkya
Black Canadians by Joseph Mensah
Sister to Courage by Wanda Robson
Ma-Ka Diasporic Juks by Debbie Douglas, Courtnay Mcfarlane, Makeda Silvera, Douglas Stewart (eds.)
Coloured Zion by DonnaByard Sealey
Theorizing Empowerment by Njoki Nathani Wane and Notisha Massaquoi
Black Life: Post BLM and the Struggle for Freedom by Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi
Until We are Free by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, Syrus Marcus Ware (eds.)
Hood Feminism by Mikki endall
Abolitionist Books
"Are Prisons Obsolete?" By Angela Y. Davis
"Assata: An Autobiography" by Assata Shakur
"Carceral Capitalism" by Jackie Wang
"Blood in My Eye" by George L. Jackson
"Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex" edited by Nat Smith, Eric A. Stanley
"The End of Policing" by Alex Vitale
"Freedom is a Constant Struggle" by Angela Y. Davis
"Beyond Survival" edited by Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
"Fumbling Towards Repair" by Mariame Kaba, Shira Hassan
"As Black as Resistance" by Zoe Samudzi, William C. Anderson
Abolition Now! 10 Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
By Critical Resistance
Black Marxist Books
"Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition" by Cedric J. Robinson
African Heritage Month Books
Poetry
She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks by M. NourbeSe Philip, 2015
Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou, 2015
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, 1995
Memoirs
Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman's Life in Nova Scotia by Verna Thomas, 2002
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, 1853; 2013 edition
Historical Fiction
Africville by Shauntay Grant, illustrated by Eva Campbell, 2018
Problematic Books:
"White Fragility" by Robin Dangelo
Why it's problematic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/
Films/Documentaries
Films that are problematic, and that follow 'white saviour' narratives:
- The Help (2011) dir. Tate Taylor
- Green Book (2018) dir. Peter Farrelly
Queer Black Films:
- Portrait of Jason (1967) dir. Shirley Clarke
- Looking for Langston (1989) dir. Isaac Julien
- Tongues United (1989) dir. Marlon Riggs
- Paris is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston
- Young Soul Rebels (1991) dir. Isaac Julien
- Black is... Black Ain't (1995) dir. Marlon Riggs
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) dir. Douglas Carter Beane
- The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye
- Chocolate Babies (1997) dir. Stephen Winter
- Venus Boyz 2002) dir. Gabrielle Baur
- Brother to Brother (2003) dir. Rodney Evans
- Still Black: A Portrait of Black Trans men (2008) dir. Kortney Ryan Ziegler
- Pariah (2011) dir. Dees Rees
- Blackbird (2014) dir. Patrik-Ian Polk
- Dope (2015) dir. Rick Famuyiwa
- Tangerine (2015) dir. Sean Baker
- Naz & Malik (2015) dir. Jay Dockendorf
- Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins
- Rafiki (2018) dir. Wanuri Kakiu
- Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (2020) dir. Sam Feder
Documentaries:
- First Australians: The Untold Story of Australia
- I am not your Negro
- The Tall Man
- 3 1/2 Minutes. Ten Bullets
- The House I Live In
- We are the Giant
- Putaparri and the Rainmakers
- Quest
- Do Not Resist
- Westwind: Djalu's Legacy
Academic Articles
"'Whiteness as Property" by Cheryl Harris
"The Racial Contract" by Charles Mills
"The Lived Experience of the Black Man" by Frantz Fanon
Social Media
@Laylafsaad
@rachel.cargle
@AustinChanning
Organizations
Dalhousie Student Societies
- African Nova Scotian Student Association (ANSSA)
- Black United Student Association (BUSA)
- Dalhousie African Students Association (DASA)
- Dalhousie Black, Indigenous and People of Colour Caucus (BIPOCUS)
- Dalhousie Black Law Students' Society (DBLSA)
- Dalhousie Caribbean Connections
Dalhousie Resources
- Dalhousie Black Faculty and Staff Caucus
- Dalhousie Law School Indigenous Black and Mi'kmaq Initiative
- James Robinson Johnston Endowed Chair in Black Canadian Studies
- Imhotep's Legacy Academy (ILA)
- Promoting Leadership In Health For African Nova Scotians (PLANS)
- Transition Year Program
Nova Scotia Resources
- African Canadian Services Division
- African Diaspora Association of the Maritimes (ADAM)
- African Nova Scotian Affairs
- Black Business Initiative (BBI)
- Black Cultural Centre
- Black Educators Association
- Black History Month Association
- Health Association of African Canadians
- Nova Scotia Association of Black Social Workers
North American Organizations
Critical Resistance http://criticalresistance.org/resources/
Donate
LOVE – Leave Out Violence (Nova Scotia)
- Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/love-nova-scotia/
- Learn More: https://theloveprogram.ca/
The Association of Black Social Workers
- Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/the-association-of-black-social-workers/
- Learn more: http://nsabsw.ca/
Hope Blooms
- Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/31667
- Learn more: https://hopeblooms.ca/
Black Cultural Centre
- Donate: http://www.bccnsweb.com/web/support-us/donate/
- Learn more: http://web1.bccnsweb.com/
North End Parent Resource Centre
- Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/north-end-parent-centre-association/
- Learn more: http://www.neprc.org/
Africville Heritage Trust (Africville Memorial Project, including the Museum and the Africville Interpretive Centre)
- Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/africville-heritage-trust-society/
- Learn more: https://africvillemuseum.org/
Black Loyalist Heritage Centre
- Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/black-loyalist-heritage-society/
- Learn more: http://blackloyalist.com/
Delmore ‘Buddy’ Daye Learning Institute
- Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/delmore-buddy-daye-learning-institute-inc/
- Learn more: https://dbdli.ca/
North End Community Child Care Centre
North End Opportunities Fund
- Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/north-end-opportunities-fund-society/
- Learn more: https://www.neof.ca/
ISANS
- Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/isans/
- Learn more: https://www.isans.ca/
Halifax Refugee Clinic
- Donate: http://halifaxrefugeeclinic.org/?page_id=54
- Learn more: http://halifaxrefugeeclinic.org/
One North End https://www.onenorthend.ca/nest
902 Man Up https://902manup.ca/
ACCE HFX https://www.facebook.com/pg/accehfx/about/?ref=page_internal
Health Association of African Canadians (HAAC) http://haac.ca/
Black Business Initiative http://www.bbi.ca/
The Menelik Hall Association https://menelikhallassociation.webs.com/
Sickle Cell Disease Association of Nova Scotia - http://sicklecellnovascotia.ca/
Africa Festival of Arts and Culture http://www.afacs.org/
Into GoFundMe campaigns? There are options there, too!
Black Lives Matter Solidarity Fund NS https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-lives-matter-solidarity-fund-ns
Decolonization
Books
Howard Adams – A Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization
Jodi Byrd – Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
Amilcar Cabral – Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral
Aime Cesaire – Discourse on Colonialism
Glen Coulthard – Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Iyko Day – Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
Sarah Deer – The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
Vine Deloria Jr. – Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Nick Estes – Our History is Our Future
Frantz Fanon – Wretched of the Earth
Mishuana Goeman – Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping our Nations
Sandy Grande – Red Pedagogy
Shona Jackson – Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
Emma Laroque – When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850-1990
Lisa Lowe – The Intimacies of Four Continents
Terese Marie Mailhot – Heart Berries
Lee Maracle – I am Woman
George Manuel – The Fourth World: An Indian Reality
Albert Memmi – The Colonizer and the Colonized
Scott Morgenson – Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten – The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (open access!)
V.Y. Mudimbe – The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge
Pamela Palmater – Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens
Reiland Rabaka – Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon’s Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization
Audra Simpson – Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and New Emergence
Linda Smith – Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Huanani-Kay Trask – From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Alex Weheliye – Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Videos
Sara Ahmed – Brick Walls: Racism and Other Hard Histories
Jodi Byrd – “Variations Under Domestication”: Indigeneity, Financialization, and the Logics of Dispossession
Sarah Hunt – Embodying Self-Determination: resisting violence beyond the gender binary
Joy James – Refusing Blackness as Victimization: Trayvon Martin and the Black Cyborgs
Rauna Kuokkanen – Indigenous Gender Justice
Dory Nason – Indigenous Feminist Resurgence, Love and Resistance in Indigenous Women’s Contemporary Storytelling
Audra Simpson – The Chief’s Two Bodies: Theresa Spence and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty
Kim TallBear – Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexuality
Erica Violet Lee – Our Bodies and Lands are Not Your Property
Alex Wilson – Coming In: Indigenous Resurgence, Body Sovereignty and Gender Self-Determination
Documentary:
Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)
Articles
Glen Coulthard – Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the ‘Politics of Recognition’ in Canada
Iyko Day – Being or Nothingness: Indigeneity, Antiblackness and the Settler Colonial Critique
George Dei – Rethinking the Role of Indigenous Knowledges in the Academy
Sarah Hunt – Ontologies of Indigeneity: The Politics of Embodying a Concept
Sarah Hunt & Cindy Holmes – Everyday Decolonization: Living a Decolonizing Queer Politics
Freya Schiwy – Decolonizing the Technologies of Knowledge: Video and Indigenous Epistemology
Eve Tuck & Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández – Curriculum, Replacement & Settler Futurity
Eve Tuck & C. Ree – A Glossary of Haunting
Tryon Woods – The Fact of Antiblackness: Decolonization in the Chiapas and the Niger River Delta
Sylvia Wynter – Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Glen Coulthard – Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the ‘Politics of Recognition’ in Canada
Iyko Day – Being or Nothingness: Indigeneity, Antiblackness and the Settler Colonial Critique
George Dei – Rethinking the Role of Indigenous Knowledges in the Academy
Sarah Hunt – Ontologies of Indigeneity: The Politics of Embodying a Concept
Sarah Hunt & Cindy Holmes – Everyday Decolonization: Living a Decolonizing Queer Politics
Freya Schiwy – Decolonizing the Technologies of Knowledge: Video and Indigenous Epistemology
Eve Tuck & Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández – Curriculum, Replacement & Settler Futurity
Eve Tuck & C. Ree – A Glossary of Haunting
Tryon Woods – The Fact of Antiblackness: Decolonization in the Chiapas and the Niger River Delta
Sylvia Wynter – Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Organizations
Idle No More:
https://idlenomore.ca/
Mental Health
Books
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities
http://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Revolution-starts-at-home-zine.pdf
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
https://www.bkconnection.com/static/Trauma_Stewardship_EXCERPT.pdf
Towards Transformative Justice: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse and other forms of Intimate and Community Violence
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Gender and Sexuality
Books
"Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex" edited by Eric Stanley and Nat Smith
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
full-metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead
Me, Myself and They: Life beyond the binary by Luna M. Ferguson
This One Looks Like a Boy: My gender journey to life as a man by Lorimer Shenher
Misfit by Andreas Souvaliotis
Academic Articles
"Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination
Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics" by Kimberle Crenshaw
Social Media
Kimberlé Crenshaw @sandylocks
Workshops
Rethinking Gender – Trans Inclusive Spaces and Practices
What does it mean to create spaces and practices that are inclusive for people of various gender identities?
Nolan Pike, a writer and community educator whom many Dal staff, faculty and leaders have benefitted from his training in the past, created an online learning program that looks specifically at what it means to be inclusive of gender diversity, and what each one of us can do to be more inclusive of the transgender community. As much as we are becoming more informed about transgender identities, there is a lot of misinformation that we are likely to have come across in our lives. This online program takes us through a journey starting with the basics of what is meant when words like transgender, gender identity, and gender expression are said, then will address some of the common misconceptions about different issues before diving deeper into the subject to explore practical actions we can take to make our workplace and our communities more inclusive for people with diverse range of gender identities and expressions.
Dalhousie HR has bought this program to be available for our community. We encourage you to take this program and cascade it internally to your faculties/departments. This course should take 2 – 3 hours to complete depending on your pace and your engagement with bonus content. We recommend you take 2 – 3 breaks while completing the course, and you can also take it on multiple occasions as your progress will be saved when you return. To access the course, please follow these steps:
1. Click on this link: https://nolan-s-school-805b.thinkific.com/courses/DAL-rethinking-gender-trans-inclusive-spaces-and-practices-0401
2. Create an account using your Dalhousie email address.
3. Click on Enroll Now
4. Access the course through "My Courses" in the menu items on the top of the page.
Sexualized Violence
Books
I Still Believe Anita Hill: Three Generations Discuss the Legacy of Speaking the Truth to Power by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg
Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality by Toni Morrison
Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It by Kate Harding
I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass
I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape by Robin Warshaw, Gloria Steinem, Salamishah Tillet
Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence by Lisa Factora-Borchers and Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Ask: Building Consent Culture by Kitty Stryker, Carol Queen and Laurie Penny
Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support by Cindy Crabb
Consent on Campus: A Manifesto by Donna Freitas
Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence by Lexie Bean, Dean Spade and Nyala Moon
Academic Articles
"The Sociology of Gaslighting" by Paige L. Sweet
"NORMALIZING SEXUAL VIOLENCE: Young Women Account for Harassment and Abuse" by Heather r. Hlavka
"Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape" by
Elizabeth a. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney.
"Government-mandated institutional betrayal" by Alec M. Smidt & Jennifer J. Freyd
"Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color" by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Films/Documentaries
- Unbelievable (2019) dir. Susannah Grant and Michael Chabon. Netflix Series
- Promising Young Woman (2020)
Articles
The Guardian Newspaper/ rape articles
https://www.theguardian.com/society/rape
Misogynist Incels and Male Supremacism
https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/misogynist-incels-and-male-supremacism/
Gender-Based Violence Terminology Link