This resource list is part of a blog titled, Engaging as Co-Conspirators in Anti-Racism Work, which is a statement about our commitment as the staff of Facing History and Ourselves Canada to our mission to stand up against bigotry and racism. The Facing History and Ourselves Canada team have been reading, watching, and learning from the following resources. This is by no means an exhaustive list and we would love to hear from you what you are reading, and who are the voices that you are learning from. 

Canadian Resources

Black Canadian History and Contemporary Issues:

• Anti-Racist Educator Reads
• A Recent History of Racial Profiling and Policing in Canada
• Brought in Bondage: Black Enslavement in Upper Canada
• Canada’s history during the American Civil War and its complicity with Confederacy (Adam Bunch @TODreamsproject)
• Canada's slavery secret: The whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement
• Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of “George and Rue” by George Elliot Clarke  
• I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter by David Chariandy
• Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
• The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole
• The Skin We’re In Documentary
  

Indigenous History and Contemporary Issues:

• All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward by Tanya Talaga 
• Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools by Theodore Fontaine
• Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel 
• Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice
• Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga 

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
• United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous Peoples

American Resources

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Nice White Parents: Building a Better School System, and What Gets In the Way
• The work of Bettina Love
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Working for Justice, Equity and Civic Agency in Our Schools: A Conversation with Clint Smith

Important resource lists

• CBC's ‘25 books about being black in Canada’
• CBC's ‘108 Indigenous writers to read, as recommended by you’
• Daily 10, 25 or 45 minute Anti-racist learning schedule and resourcesUniversity of 
• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources  
• University of Toronto’s Anti-Black Racism Reading List 

To read the Facing History and Ourselves Canada statement about our commitment to our mission to stand up against bigotry and racism click here.