Resources for understanding protests against police violence and anti-Black racism
Note: List created by Dr. Courtney Szto and Dr. Mary Louise Adams
On the protests/anger/grief in the Black community
Natasha Cloud (WNBA) - Player's Tribune: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/natasha-cloud-your-silence-is-a-knee-on-my-neck-george-floyd
Edge of Sports with Royce White: https://soundcloud.com/edgeofsports/royce-white-on-the-frontlines-in-minneapolis
Racism as a public health crisis
Statement from Black health leaders: Anti-Black racism is a public health crisis. https://www.allianceon.org/news/Statement-Black-health-leaders-Anti-Black-Racism-Public-Health-Crisis
André Picard in the Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-protests-against-police-brutality-show-theres-more-than-one-public/?fbclid=IwAR2CJD4er4pTRtJFAaIDDm2Q4VPtSWKAIEwYsGz1N88eUKm1G8NK1C7kJNI
Anti-Black racism in Canada
Desmond Cole, blogpost on police violence against Indigenous and racialized peoples in Canada:https://thatsatruestory.wordpress.co m/2020/04/17/remembering-27-black-indigenous-and-racialized-people-killed-by-canadian-police/?fbclid=IwAR0m8uGghoPQKR-2AGAw-YK0z4pxbfnec1Gwindng9OeDwor_gWAvBLM-YA
Desmond Cole speaking in response to the current protests on CBC radio's The Current: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-june-1-2020-1.5592953/police-brutality-continually-treated-like-a-one-off-in-canada-says-desmond-cole-1.5592954
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In. Penguin, 2019. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole/9780385686341
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood, 2017. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives
Podcasts
1619 - a podcast series from the New York Times that looks at how the "long shadow of slavery" shaped the history of the United States.
Secret Life of Canada a CBC radio podcast series on histories of Indigenous and racialized peoples in Canada. The episodes are often quite short.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/documentaries/the-secret-life-of-canada/
Colour Code: a Globe and Mail podcast about race in Canada: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/colour-code-podcast-race-in-canada/article31494658/
Code Switch - an NPR podcast about race. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
Understanding whiteness:
Seeing White -- this series is season two of a podcast called Scene on Radio from Duke University. The series looks at the "history and meaning" of whiteness in the United States -- but also very relevant for white people in Canada.
"'Why I'm not racist' is only half story" a video on white fragility with Robin Di'Angelo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzLT54QjclA
Documentary film
13th - documentary available on Netflix. Here's what Wikipedia says about it: "a 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay. The film explores the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States;"[3] it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime. DuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated since the end of the American Civil War through criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynchings and Jim Crow; politicians declaring a war on drugs that weigh more heavily on minority communities and, by the late 20th century, mass incarceration of people of color in the United States. She examines the prison-industrial complex and the emerging detention-industrial complex, discussing how much money is being made by corporations from such incarcerations.
