Resources and supports to help students, faculty, and staff advance equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism.
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Fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion involves change at both the individual and systemic level. For us, it is important that we understand the different kinds of discrimination faced by faculty, staff, and students of colour. We have compiled a list of resources that you can use as a jumping off point. Happy unlearning!
How does academia benefits from systemic racism?
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Ways That Scientists And Academics Can Effectively Combat Racism | Article | How individual scientists can play a major role in transforming science and academia into a safer, more inclusive environment. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| A Dozen-Plus Ways You Can Foster Educational Equity | Guide/ Article | Teaches non-Black faculty members how to dismantle educational inequities in practical ways. | Faculty, Staff |
| Accept That You’re Racist. Then, Get To Work Dismantling Racism | Article | For White people who wish to be anti-racist, the first step in facilitating change is likely also the hardest: White people need to accept that they’re racist. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Anthropology Courses | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | Study human diversity and commonality locally, nationally, and internationally. | Students |
| Anti-racist TA Training Resources/Readings (Megan McIntyre, @RCMeg) | Guide | List of decolonial teaching resources as well as insight into the history of teaching in higher education. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Antiracism Requires Accomplices | Guide | What it means to be anti-racist, action resource list, What it means to be anti-racist, action resource list, and an anti-racism resource list. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Apathy is Boring | Organization | A non-partisan, charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada’s democracy. | Students |
| BIPOC Authored Psychology Papers | Guide | A starting point to find research conducted by BIPOC researchers. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Collaborative Resource: Addressing systemic shortcomings in mental health training | Guide | A collaborative document for students, faculty, and programs in mental health training. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Colour Connected Against Racism UBC | Organization | An AMS resource group that works to end racism, and all forms of oppression, discrimination and prejudice. | Students |
| Concrete Steps for Recruiting, Supporting, and Advancing Underrepresented Minoritized Scientists | Guide | Teaches over-represented scientists to get engaged and work toward equity and fair representation. | Faculty, Staff |
| Contextualizing the cost of racism for people of colour: Theory, research, and practice | Textbook | Leading scholars examine the felt experience of being the target of racism, with a focus on mental and physical health. | Faculty, Students |
| Culturally-responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond | Textbook | Offers an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. | Faculty, Students |
| Even the Rat was White: A Historical View of Psychology by Robert Guthrie | Textbook | Histories of social psychology are presented in detail concerning early African-American psychologists and their scientific contributions. | Faculty, Students |
| Gender, Race, and Social Justice Courses | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | An area of study that delves deeper into the intersections of gender, sexuality, social justice, and race. | Students |
| Helen Neville's Twitter Thread on Racial Trauma and Healing | Guide/ List | Provides resources to learn more about radical healing pedagogies. | Faculty, Staff |
| IBPOC Connections: Staff and Faculty | Organization/ Initiative | An initiative designed for and by IBPOC faculty and staff at UBC to enhance their experiences and outcomes. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Ibram X. Kendi's Anti-Racist Reading List | Article | 38 books for those open to changing themselves, and their world. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Interrogating Your Discipline, and Other Ways Into Anti-Racist Teaching | Guide | Resources for teachers looking to create an anti-racist pedagogy. | Faculty, Staff |
| Jin Xun Goh's Twitter Thread on Articles on Racism | Guide/ List | Provides links to articles that can be used in class to understand racism through a social psychology lens. | Faculty, Staff |
| Law and Society Courses | Undergraduate Courses | Allows students to study law as a social phenomenon that is central to the organization of social relations and social life. | Students |
| Pedagogical Strategies to Acknowledge and Discuss Institutional Legacies of Racism | Textbook | Discusses higher education's institutional past in powerful ways, and remind us of the importance of trauma-informed pedagogies. | Faculty, Staff |
| Psychology of Radical Healing Syllabus by The Psychology of Radical Healing Collective | Guide | A masterlist of foundational texts, emerging frameworks, etc. designed to encourage a deeper exploration of radical healing in psychology. | Faculty, Staff |
| Racism in the Canadian University: Demanding social justice, inclusion and equality | Textbook | Discusses the ways in which the institutional culture of the academy privileges Whiteness and Anglo-Eurocentric ways of knowing. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Shades of Sustainability | Organization | A community project that unpacks what it means to engage in environmental action as BIPOC. | Students |
| Sociology Courses | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | Examines processes of social and cultural life in human societies. | Students |
| SPARK Society | Organization | Creates networks and promotes the professional development of historically excluded scholars in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks | Book | Answers important questions about racism and sexism in the classroom and how to teach students who do not want to learn. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| 'There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Complicit In A Racist Society | Article | An article that delves into how white people need to confront how they have been shaped by race. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks | Organization | A network of community organizations committed to promoting food security in neighbourhoods. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Vanguard STEM | Organization | An online network of women of colour, girls of colour and non-binary people of colour thriving on the STEM frontier. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
What is the Land Back movement? What role do uninvited settlers and locals play in the movement to give back the stolen land to Indigenous communities? What is the history of colonialism in Canada, and how does it impact Indigenous communities in the present?
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| "All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker | Book | Tackles a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| All My Relations | Podcast | Explores relationships - to land, to cultural relatives, and to one another. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| As Long As Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker | Book | Explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer | Book | Shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| CTLT | Land Acknowledgement in Teaching and Learning [Guide] | A comprehensive guide about land acknowledgement in practice. | Faculty, Students |
| Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) | Professional Development on Indigenous Topics [Website] | Learning resources that are Indigenous-focused, self-directed professional development opportunities available at UBC Vancouver and beyond. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| CTLT | Time and Place at UBC: Our Histories and Relations [Website] | The goal of the “UBC Aboriginal Timeline” is to build a shared understanding of the specificities and complexity of the time and place that we share today. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Evan's Drum (2021) | Film | A joyful visit to a family’s loving home, and an uplifting story of cultural pride. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| First Nations and Indigenous Studies | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | Looks at the historical, cultural, political, economic and legal issues that inform the experiences of Indigenous peoples in Canada. | Students |
| For Angela (1993) | Film | Portrays the experiences of Rhonda Gordon and her daughter, Angela, when a simple bus ride changes their lives in an unforeseeable way. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Freedom Road Series (2019) | Documentary | A five-part documentary series that tells the inspiring story of Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe First Nation and their battle to build a road. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Holy Angels (2017) | Film | Recaptures Canada’s colonialist history through impressionistic images and the fragmented language of a child. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger (2019) | Film | A battle for the right of First Nations and Inuit children to receive the same standard of social, health and educational services as the rest of the Canadian population. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) | Film | A dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again (2021) | Film | Shares the powerful story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who challenges sex discrimination against First Nations women embedded in Canada’s Indian Act. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle | Book | Presents a tour de force exploration into the writer’s own history and a reimagining of the future of our nation. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Native American DNA by Kimberly TallBear | Book | How DNA testing is a powerful-and problematic-scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019) | Film | Follows Colten Bushie's family after he died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friend in their journey for justice. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Red Skins, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Sean Coulthard | Book | Challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People by Kari Marie Norgaard | Book | Draws upon insight from Karuk experiences on the Klamath River to illustrate how the ecological dynamics of settler-colonialism. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| San'yas Anti Racism Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program [Training Course] | Self-paced training & learning activities on key aspects of cultural safety and anti-Indigenous racism. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors by Charlotte Cote | Book | Offers a valuable perspective on the issues surrounding Indigenous whaling. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Stories Are in Our Bones (2019) | Film | Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother), a residential school survivor who retains a deep knowledge and memory of the land. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Equity Myth by Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl E. James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos, and Malinda S. Smith | Book | Shows how the goal of achieving equity in higher education has been consistently promised, but never realized for racialized and Indigenous faculty members. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Great Vansishing Act by Norbert S. Hill Jr. & Kathleen Ratteree | Book | Brings together writers from around the world to explore the biological and cultural metaphor of blood quantum. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Lake Winnipeg Project (2021) | Documentary | Stories of ingenuity and resilience in four diverse communities surrounding Lake Winnipeg, at a time when many external forces are imposing change. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| UBC Arts | What I Learned in Class Today: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom [Website] | A research project that aims to make Aboriginal issues visible, and to find ways to have more professional and productive classroom discussions. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| UBC Professional Development | Respect, Sincerity & Responsibility: Land Acknowledgements [Canvas Course] | Foundational knowledge about land acknowledgement and some of the barriers many learners experience when doing land acknowledgements. | Faculty, Staff |
| UBCx | Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education [Online Course] | A course aimed to advance reconciliation in classrooms, organizations, and communities through the teaching and learning of Indigenous ways of knowing. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| University of Alberta (Faculty of Native Studies) | Indigenous Canada [Online Course] | A 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores the different histories and contemporary perspectives of Indigenous peoples living in Canada. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Unsettling Truths by Mark Charles & Soong Chan Rah | Book | The authors call our nation and churches to a truth-telling that will expose past injustices and open the door to conciliation and true community. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
Vancouver is the Anti-Asian hate crime capital of North America. However, did you know that Asian communities have a long lineage in Canada? What is the ‘Model Minority Myth’? How have Asian communities helped Vancouver turn into a multicultural city?
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Asian Awareness Project | Organization | Brings awareness to the injustices Asians face while educating their audience on the culture they continue to keep alive. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Asian Studies | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | Aims to educate students about the diverse cultures, languages, and traditions across Asia. | Students |
| How to Support the AAPI Community in a Time of Hate: A Resource List | Guide | A resource list to support and aid AAPI community members, as well as point both AAPI and non-AAPI allies to places they can go to to learn more. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story (2003) | Film | After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, all persons of Japanese descent in Canada were sent to internment camps. The film discusses how baseball served as a way to bridge cultures, and allowed Japanese people to survive in these camps. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Color of Success by Ellen D. Wu | Book | A look into the transformation of Asian-American communities from being perceived as "terror" into a model minority. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Muslim American Life by Moustafa Bayoumi | Book | Offers a look at the culture of the War on Terror as experienced by Muslim Americans. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Unwanted Soldiers (1994) | Film | A look into the legacy of discrimination and racism against BC's Chinese-Canadian community. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Western Eyes (2000) | Documentary | This documentary presents two Canadian women of Asian descent who are contemplating eyelid surgery. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
The world remembers the role of the US in the Atlantic Slave Trade, but people tend to forget the role that Canada played in this. What were Africville and Hogan’s Alley? How does discrimination and racism learned in the past, continue to impact the lives of Black communities in the present?
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Academics for Black Survival and Wellness | Organization | A professional development initiative for Non-Black academics to honor the toll of racial trauma on Black people. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Ain't I a Woman? by bell hooks | Book | Examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, and black male sexism. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Book | Written as a letter to the author's son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Black Lives Matter Vancouver | Organization | An online forum intended to build connections between Black people and their allies to fight anti-Black racism in "Vancouver". | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper | Book | Discusses rage as a source of power that grants black women the strength to not only survive but thrive in America. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Fatal Invention by Dororthy Roberts | Book | This work shows that all people are indeed created equal, despite political and economic interests that keep trying to persuade us otherwise. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis | Book | Reflects on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta | Book | Follows Kara Davis through elementary school to her high school graduation, as she comes of age while being caught between her Canadian nationality and Jamaican heritage. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| How She Read by Chantal Gibson | Book | A holistic, decolonized approach to challenging imperialist ideas by way of a close look at Canadian literature et. al | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Ice Breakers (2019) | Film | Josh Crooks is a promising teen hockey star in a sport where Black players like him are chronically underrepresented. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Invisible City (2009) | Film | A moving story of two boys from Regent Park crossing into adulthood. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| James Baldwin's Collected Essays and Works | Book | Presents the pain and struggle of Black Americans. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Journal of Black Psychology | Journal | Presents research on the behavior and experiences of Black and other populations from Black or Afrocentric perspectives. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Journey to Justice (2000) | Film | Pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Land to Light On by Dionne Brand | Book | This work looks at the experience of being an outsider to a new land — and the complicated feeling of being uncomfortable in this climate. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| North of the Color Line by Sarah-Jane Mathieu | Book | Examines factors such as social, political, labour and immigration through the lens of the experiences of black railway workers. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard | Book | This work traces the underreported modern and historical realities of anti-Blackness within a Canadian context. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Rachel Cargle's course on 'The Great Unlearn' | Online Course | Monthly self paced, self priced learning collective, committed to highlighting the genius of academics of colour. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Remember Africville (1991) | Film | Depicts a small black settlement that lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia and how in the '60s the families were uprooted. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt | Book | A memoir about identity, race and belonging. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde | Book | Takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Sonnet's Shakespeare by Sonnet L'Abbe | Book | Takes the work of William Shakespeare and inserts herself — a mixed race South Asian and Black Canadian poet. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison | Book | Story of an eleven-year-old, black girl in an America who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Color of Beauty (2010) | Film | Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. But she’s a Black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Hanging of Angelique by Afua Cooper | Book | Tells the story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal in the 1700s. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Hidden Rules of Race by Andrea Flynn, Susuan R. Holmber, Dorian T. Warren, and Felicia J. Wong | Book | Offers examples of the many ways in which unspoken rules of race and economics perpetuate inequality. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander | Book | Challenges all of us to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Skin We're In by Desmond Cole | Book | This book chronicles Coles's personal journalism, activism and experiences alongside stories that made the headlines across the country in 2017. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| They Call be George by Cecil Foster | Book | Being a train porter in Canada was a job reserved for Black men only and forced these men to be separated from their families as they travelled the country. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| They Said This Would be Fun by Eternity Martis | Book | A memoir about the difficulty of navigating through white spaces as a student of colour. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Until We Are Free, edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware | Book | Addresses how developments in Canadian Black activism, and alliances with Indigenous groups have served to challenge systemic racism. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele | Book | This memoir reveals what it is like to be Black in today's violently racially charged America. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| White Accomplices | Website | A website developed to support white people to act for racial justice. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Dr. Beverly Tatum | Book | A look into the psychology of racism to enhance communication across racial and ethnic divides. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Zero Toelarance (2004) | Film | Reveals how deep seated prejudice can be. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
Antisemitic incidents have increased both online and in-person since 2020. How have Jewish communities demonstrated resilience in the face of the Holocaust? What are their traditions and culture like?
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism | Organization/ Workshop | Provides Canadian teachers and students across the country with two award-winning human rights programs that include sections on the Holocaust and antisemitism | Faculty, Students |
| Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre - Antisemitism Workshop | Organization/ Workshop | Provides practical step-by-step guidelines and empowers students and the general public to become upstanders against antisemitism and other forms of racism. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism | Book | Assists university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism and other forms of prejudice. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Resources and Tools for Addressing Antisemitism, Intolerance and Bias by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington | Guide | Assists university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism and other forms of prejudice. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Resources to Address and Challenge Antisemitism by the Anti-Defamation League | Guide | Assists teachers who are looking to help students understand and challenge antisemitism. | Faculty, Staff |
| Antisemitism: You can make a difference today | Online course | Teaches about antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the ongoing discrimination against Jewish people. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Canadian Taskforce to Combat Antisemitism | Project | Looks at antisemitism online and what can be done to confront it through three virtual roundtables. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre | Organization | Teaches about Holocaust-based anti-racism education. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Antisemitism resources by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa | Guide | Compiles a list of books, online reports, and scholarly thought on antisemitism. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Social Media Antisemitism in the 21st Century | Explores the different ways in which antisemitism proliferates on online platforms and provides resources to combat it. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The stain of antisemitism in Canada | Discusses the history of antisemitism in Canada and it's effects on the lives of Jewish communities across the country. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
