Resources to confront anti-Black racism

This page contains a living list of multimedia self-care and educational resources relating to anti-racism. Recommendations for additional resources are welcome, and may be submitted to equity.provost@mcgill.ca.

Self-Care Resources for Black Students, Faculty, and Staff

Mental Health

AMI-Quebec: Call 514-487-1448 or 1-877-303-0264

Black Youth Helpline: Call 416-285-9944 or 1-833-294-8650

Free Black Healing Sessions by Ethel’s Club (Virtual sessions available)

Tel-Aide: Call 514-935-1101

The Summit Wellness Group

Live Another Day 

 

Educational Resources 

Books

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (2003)

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

Blacks in Montreal 1628–1986 by Dorothy W. Williams (1989)

Divided Sisters: Bridging the Gap Between Black Women and White Women by Midge Wilson & Kathy Russell-Cole (1996)

Good White People: The Problem With Middle-Class White Anti-Racism by Shannon Sullivan (2014)

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (2019)

Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognize Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F. Saad (2020)

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (2017)

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard (2017)

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela Davis (2017)

Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies by Rinaldo Walcott (2016)

Racism in the Canadian University: Demanding Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equity by Frances Henry & Carol Tator (2009)

Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms by George Sefa Dei (2017)

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens & Mai’a Williams (2016)

The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities by Frances Henry et al. (2017)

The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal by Afua Cooper (2006)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2011)

The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole (2020)

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson (2005)

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (2018)


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