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 [at] 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
Reading
Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe
"Self-Care Tips for Black People Who Are Struggling With This Very Painful Week" by Rachel Miller
"The Four Bodies: A Holistic Toolkit for Coping With Racial Trauma" by Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu
The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve by Rheeda Walker
"Tips for Self-Care: When Police Brutality Has You Questioning Humanity and Social Media Is Enough" by Imani J. Walker
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
"My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies" by Resmaa Menakem
Yoga and Meditation
"Black Lives Matter Meditations for Healing Racial Trauma" by Candice Nicole
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma by Gail Parker
Soulfulness4life by Shelly Harrell
Podcasts
Between Sessions Podcast by Melanin & Mental Health
Ep. 48: Self-Care for Change Agents and Activists by The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema
The Breakdown with Dr. Earl: A Mental Health Podcast by Earl Turner
Videos
"Emotionally Restorative Self Care for People of Color - Black People - African Americans" by Brandi Jackson Wellness
Apps
Liberate Meditation: A guided meditation app for the BIPOC community.
The Safe Place: A minority mental health app geared towards the Black community.
Other Resources
Resources for Black Healing by Micalah Webster
Tool Kits & Resources by the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
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)
Articles
“The White Space” by Elijah Anderson (2015)
"An Exoneration of Black Rage" by Debra Thompson (2017)
"Beyond Racism: Mapping Ruling Relations in a Canadian University from the Standpoint of Racialized Female Student Activists" by Mahtab Nazemi (2011)
"Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy" by Jason Arday & Heidi Safia Mirza (2018)
"Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions" by Robin DiAngelo (2012)
Theses, Papers, and Reports
"Black in the City: On the Ruse of Ethnicity and Language in an Antiblack Landscape" by Délice Mugabo (2018)
"Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor" by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2012)
"Geographies and Futurities of Being: Radical Black Activism in a Context of Anti-Black Islamophobia in 1990s Montreal" by Délice Mugabo (2016)
"Racialized Social relations in Higher Education: Black Student and Faculty Experiences of a Canadian University" by Rosalind Hampton (2016)
"Uprooting Medical Violence: Building an Integrated Anti-Oppression Framework for Primary Health Care" by Nanky Rai (2017)
News, Blog Posts, and Tools
"5 Black Women Talk About Their Lives in Canada—Past, Present and Future" by Eternity Martis (2020)
"75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice" by Corrine Shutack (2017)
"Anti-Racist Checklist for Whites" by Robin DiAngelo, adapted from John Raible (2018)
"Before You Declare Canada Is Not a Racist Country, Do Your Homework" by Vanmala Subramaniam (2020)
"It’s Long-Past Time to Talk About Policing of Black Women in Canada" by Robyn Maynard (2020)
"Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People" by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2020)
"On Being Comfortable with Discomfort: Tiffany Jewell Explains What It Means to Be Anti-Racist" by Vanessa Willoughby (2020)
"This Is What Black Burnout Feels Like" by Tiana Clark (2019)
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh (2018)
"Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?" by Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
"White Supremacy Culture in Organizations" by Centre for Community Organizations (2019)
"Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race" by Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)
"How to Respond to Racial Microaggressions When They Occur" by J. Luke Wood & Frank Harris III (2020)
Videos
"How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strength Compassion": Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (2012)
Angela Davis: How Does Change Happen? (2008)
Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (2016)
TV and Film
13th (2016)
American Son (2019)
Dear White People (2017)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
King in the Wilderness (2018)
The Hate U Give (2018)
When They See Us (2019)
YYC Colours: A Documentary About Racism in Calgary by the Canadian Cultural Mosaic Foundation (2017)
Podcasts
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Racism Cont'd by What a Day
Essays, Memoirs, Poetry
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes (2019)
Blank: Interviews and Essays by Marlene Nourbese Philip (2017)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2002)
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Arnold Rampersad & David Roessel, eds (1995)
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde (2017)