
TLRJN is committed to making efforts to eliminate systemic racism faced by Black communities. This project was developed by J’Davia Noel, TLRJN’s student intern for 2020/2021. The goal is to highlight resources relevant and useful to the struggle for equality and liberation with special emphasis on North America.
Click here to read the University of Windsor Faculty of Law’s statement supporting the fight against Anti-Black Racism.
Click here to read the statement written by Windsor Law faculty in support of the fight against Anti-Black Racism.
Click here to learn more about the Black Lives Matter movement.
It is imperative that individuals, as well as public and private organizations, recognize the active measures they must take to combat Anti-Black Racism.
Below are a list of educational resources relevant to all audiences, separated by resource-type. Each resource-type contains subcategories including history, white privilege, fear, technology, policing, intersectionality, and unconscious bias. With accessibility in mind, we want to share information on a wide range of topics to ensure a thorough understanding of Anti-Black Racism and how it manifests itself in our society. This is not an exhaustive list of tools, but rather the first step in becoming educated on how to assist black communities in the struggle for equality.
Trigger Warning: Some resources contain violent language and images.
ARTICLES:
History
- “The 1619 Project” by Nikole Hannah-Jones
White Privilege
- “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Ibram X. Kendi
Unconscious Bias
- “Some FAQs About Racism and Answers You May Find Challenging” by Shree Paradkar
- “Towards a Race Conscious Pedagogy in Legal Education” by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Fear
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Ibram X. Kendi
Technology
- “Understanding Race with AI” by Bruce D. Haynes & Sebastian Benthall
- “The Racial Bias Built Into Photography” by Sarah Lewis
Policing & Criminalization
- “Breaking the Law: How the State Weaponizes an Unjust Criminal Justice System” by Marie Henein
- Resource Guide: Prison, Policing and Punishment by Micah Herskind
- “Punishing Black Bodies in Canada: Making Blackness Visible in Criminal Sentencing” by Danardo Jones
VIDEOS:
Unconscious Bias
- “Allegories on Race and Racism” by Camara Jones
- “How to Talk About Race” by Eric Deggans
Policing & Criminalization
- “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and Modern Urban America” by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Black Studies
The Legal Profession
BOOKS:
History
- Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Unconscious Bias
- Canadian Critical Race Theory: Racism and the Law by Carol A. Aylward
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Intersectionality
- Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism by Yanick St. Jean & Joe R. Feagin
Policing & Criminalization
- The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
ESSAYS & DISSERTATIONS:
History
Intersectionality
- Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies by Rinaldo Walcott
PODCASTS:
History
- “American Police” by Rund Abdelfatah & Ramtin Arablouei
Intersectionality
- “Intersectionality Matters” by AAPF & Kimberlé Crenshaw
- “Angry Black Woman” by Hana Baba and Leila Day
Whiteness
- “Seeing White” by John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika
DOCUMENTARIES & DOCUSERIES
History/Policing & Criminalization
Below are a list of organizations focused on countering Anti-Black racism and empowering black communities:
- https://blacklivesmatter.com/
- https://policingequity.org/
- https://blackhealthalliance.ca/
- https://blsacanada.com/
- https://scholarstrikecanada.ca/
- https://www.blacklegalactioncentre.ca/
As a law-affiliated organization, we would like to highlight significant legal cases and commentary relevant to the fight against Anti-Black Racism.
- “One Woman’s Resistance” by Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- “Errors of Fact and Law: Race, Space, and Hockey in Christie v York” by Eric M. Adams
- R v. Le
- Peel Law Association v. Pieters
- “Revisiting R v. S. (RD)” by Heather Douglas
- “Biased Impartiality: A Survey of Post-RDS Caselaw on Bias, Race and Indigeneity” by Sujith Xavier