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
Educational Resources
- Books
- Articles
- Theses, Papers, and Reports
- News, Blog Posts, and Tools
- Videos
- TV and Film
- Podcasts
- Essays, Memoirs, Poetry
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)