This resource was created for educators in the Ontario public education system. The texts were chosen as entry-points for educators in Ontario who are navigating the complex field of anti-racism education. This collection of suggested readings is not meant to be a comprehensive list of resources. Rather, this list is offered as a humble introduction to contemporary texts that address racism.
For those interested in exploring some of the readings and articles listed in the annotated bibliography above, the WHS library has a number of titles in its collection.
Desmond Cole: The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard: Policing Black Lives
Tanya Talaga: Seven Fallen Feathers
Chelsea Vowel: Indigenous Writes
Final Report of the Canada's TRC
Ijeoma Oluo: So you want to talk about race.
Here are links to some of the articles that are listed in the article (for which the authors provide no links):
Galabuzi, G.-E., (2014). Race and the streaming of Ontario’s children and youth. In Restacking the deck: Streaming by class, race and gender in Ontario schools (pp. 185 – 226). Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Gray, E., Bailey, R., Brady, J., & Tecle, S. (2016, September). Perspectives of Black male students in secondary school: Understanding the successes and challenges – student focus group results. Mississauga, ON: Peel District School Board.
Here are six books in the WHS Library collection that are not listed in the Annotated Bibliography but might nevertheless be useful in your exploration of anti-racism in the context of Ontario schools, students, and education.
Barry Van Driel: Confronting Islamo-phobia in Educational Practice
K.G. Lundy: Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World
Robin Winks: The Blacks in Canada: A History
A Knock at the Door: TRC History of Residential Schools
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Phoebe Robinson: You Can't Touch My Hair
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
Eternity Martis: They Said This Would Be Fun
Wesley Lowery: "They Can't Kill Us All"
Janet Mock: Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
Thomas KIng: The Inconven-ient Indian
Helen Knott: In My Own Moccasins
Jesse Thistle: From the Ashes
Alicia Elliott: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Darrel J. McLeod: Mama-skatch: A Cree Coming of Age
Sara Farizan: If You Could Be Mine (LGBTQ)
Rajaa Alsanea: Girls of Riyadh
Sabina Khan: The Loves and Lies of Rukhsana Ali (LGBTQ)
Randa Abdel-Fattah: Ten Things I Hate About Me
SK Ali: Saints and Misfits
Samira Ahmed: Love, Hate, and Other Filters
Cherie Dimaline: Empire of Wild (Metis)
Drew Hayden Taylor: Motor-cycles and Sweetgrass (First Nations)
David Chariandy: Brother
Esi Edugyan: Washington Black
Kim Fu: For Today I Am a Boy (LGBTQ)
Catherine Hernandez: Scarbo-rough