Articles and Essays
Resources to support you in your anti-racist work.
- The Anti-Racist Starter Pack, by Brea Baker
- Addressing anti-Black racism: Black and African diaspora community recommendations [PDF], City of Vancouver 🇨🇦
- The Black History of Community Land Trusts, Northwest CLT Corporation
- But where are you really from? CBC 🇨🇦
- Canada’s civic vocabulary is broken. How can we fix it? A user’s guide to inclusion, by John Ralston Saul, Adrienne Clarkson, Charles Foran, and Scott Young,
The Globe and Mail 🇨🇦
- Communities Of Colour Contribute Massively To The Co-Operative Movement. Why Aren’t They Recognized For It? by Neha Chollangi, Future of Good 🇨🇦
- Cultivating Growth and Solidarity – An Anti-Racism Zine for Asian Youth (and Adults too!) [PDF], Growth and Solidarity (UVic) 🇨🇦
- Decolonizing Antiracism, by Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua, Social Justice
- Examining Whiteness, by Cyndi Suarez, The Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ)
- The hidden victims of gaslighting, by Ria Wolstenholme, BBC
- Hey, you got a little racism stuck in your teeth, Vu Le, Nonprofit AF
- The intersectionality wars, by Jane Coaston, Vox
- Is Capitalism Racist? by Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker
- The Mantra of White Supremacy, by Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic
- The National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism Final Report [PDF], UBC 🇨🇦
- ‘Not Racist’ Is Not Enough: Putting In The Work To Be Anti-Racist, by Eric Deggans, NPR
- 100 Ways White People Can Make Life Less Frustrating For People of Color, by Kesiena Boom, Vice
- Organizations Cannot Afford to Stay Silent on Racial Injustice by Enrica N. Ruggs and Derek R. Avery, MITSloan Management Review
- “Peace Is a Verb, Not A Noun”: Why Modernizing Global Cooperation and Aid Must Start With Reframing Language” by Neha Chollangi, , The Future of Good
- The Pervasive Reality of Anti-Black Racism in Canada, by Nan DasGupta, Vinay Shandal, Daniel Shadd, Andrew Segal, Boston Consulting Group in conjunction with CivicAction 🇨🇦
- Racial Equity in Co-ops: 6 Key Challenges and How to Meet Them by Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Non Profit Quarterly (NPQ)
- Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life, by Derald Wing Sue Ph.D., Psychology Today
- 7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism Is Real, Ben and Jerry’s
- Social Equity & Regional Growth Study [PDF], Metro Vancouver Regional District 🇨🇦
- Ten Tips for Putting Intersectionality into Practice, Opportunity Agenda
- To understand BC’s Black history, connect past and present, from UBC’s Beyond. 🇨🇦
- ‘The worshipping of whiteness’: why racist symbols persist in America, by Alexandra Villarreal, The Guardian
- What diversity means to Emma, a CHF Canada Diversity Scholarship recipient, by Emma Yeats, CHF Canada 🇨🇦
- What is Anti-Oppressive Practice? Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health (Ontario) 🇨🇦
- What Is White Privilege, Really? by Cory Collins, Learning for Justice
- What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm, by Maisha Z. Johnson, Everyday Feminism
- Why Do Nonprofits Struggle with Diversity? by Kishshana Palmer, Bloomerang
- Who Said it Was Simple by Audre Lorde (a good resource to assist you in interpreting Lorde’s poem can be found here.)
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