The following are some suggested resources on anti-black racism. For additional resources, please refer to the Black Experience in Canada libguide. For more information about these resources, please contact: Jane Schmidt| jschmidt@ryerson.ca
Books (available to the Ryerson community online)
Black like who?: writing Black Canada / by Rinaldo Walcott
Teaching community : a pedagogy of hope / bell hooks
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
How to be an antiracist / Ibram X. Kendi (ebook on order)
The End of Policing / Alex S. Vitale (available as free download from publisher)
African Canadian leadership : continuity, transition, and transformation / edited by Tamari Kitossa, Erica S. Lawson, and Philip S.S. Howard.
Films (available to the Ryerson community online)
I am not your negro / written by James Baldwin ; directed by Raoul Peck.
13th (Note: Netflix documentary)
Selected articles and reports (publicly available online)
What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For? / Lauren Michele Jackson
The case for reparations / Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black / Desmond Cole
Black Women in Canada / Wallace, Jen Katshunga; Notisha Massaquoi; Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit, City of Toronto; Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI); and Justine Wallace
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its mission to Canada. / UN Human Rights Council
Resource guides (publicly available online)
Black Lives Matter Allyship and Action Guide
Introduction to Critical Race Theory / Adrienne Keene