Anti-Racism Resources

This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.

Here is a shorter link: bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES

Compiled in May 2020 by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein, and shared with the ICA by Creative Equals.  Thank you Sarah, Alyssa and Creative Equals.

Thank you to the participants of our IDEA Anti-Racism panel series focussing on #blacklivesmatter. For more information on these and upcoming Anti-Racism panel sessions please connect with leah@theica.ca.

Do We Only Start Listening When Things are Burning?

Helen Ofosu, Principal, I/O Advisory
Kevin Johnson, CEO, MediaCom

Believing is Seeing: Racism and Representation in Content

Julien Christian Lutz, Director X, Co-Founder, Fela
Taj Critchlow, Co-Founder, Fela
Ira Baptiste, SVP, Managing Director, Brandfire Marketing Group
Haem Roy, President, BCMA

Language is Everything and Nothing

Fatma Othman, Manager, Integrated Media, Weber Shandwick
Hali Farah, Senior HR Consultant, City of Toronto

Multicultural and Mainstream

Justin Senior, Director, Sales & Marketing, SAMA Advertising
Asad Dhunna, Founder, The Unmistakables

Moving Beyond Tokenism: The Actions for Change

Dr Dori Tunstall, Dean of Design, OCAD U
Stephanie Small, Creative Operations Manager, TAXI
Joshua Richards, Director, Creative Technology, john st.

Diversity and Inclusion Training for your Agency

• OCAD U: Hiring for Decolonization, Diversity and Inclusion in the Creative Sector
• OCAD U: Whiteness Without White Supremacy: A Generative Creative Workshop
• Bias Interrupters: Toolkits
• Bias Interrupters: Bias at Work Survey

Supporting Black Creatives

• Hire & Be Hired: Bell Media portal for BIPOC Creatives
• Resource for Diverse Creatives
• Helping Black People Seek Mental Health Care – Sunshine Behaviorial Health (US Resources)

Resources for white parents to raise anti-racist children:

• Books:
  • Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
  • 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
• Podcasts:
  • Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
  • Fare of the Free Child podcast
  • Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
• Articles:
  • PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
  • Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
• The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon
• White Fragility Robin DiAngelo, PhD: Resources, Toolkits and Handouts

Articles to read:

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

Videos to watch:

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• Eddie Glaude Jr: Racism and the Soul of America

Podcasts to subscribe to:

• 1619 (New York Times)
• About Race
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Seeing White

Books to read:

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

Films and TV series to watch:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) 
• American Son (Kenny Leon) 
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 
• Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) 
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) 
• Dear White People (Justin Simien) 
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) 
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) 
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) 
• King In The Wilderness  
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) 
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) 
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) 
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)

Organizations to follow on social media:

• Antiracism Center: Twitter
• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

More anti-racism resources to check out:

• Young Black Perspectives by Ogilvy Canada
  
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Anti-Racism Project
• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
• Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
• The [White] Shift on Instagram
• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials
• White Fragility Robin DiAngelo, PhD: Resources, Toolkits and Handouts
• How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddie Glaude Jr.
• Juneteenth Virtual Celebrations
• ByBlacks.com Online Magazine