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 Long History of Black Windsor-Essex and Why UWindsor Needs a Black Studies Programme”

The Legal Profession

• Windsor Law Access to Justice – Anti-Black Racism in 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

• Blackness, Exclusion, and the Law in the History of Canada’s Public Schools, Ontario and Québec 1850-Present

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

• “When They See Us”
• “13th”
• “LA 92”
• “Teach Us All”

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/

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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