I want to learn how to define & understand “race”
TEDMED. (2016, November). Dorothy Roberts: What’s the matter with race-based medicine.
Dismantling Racism Works (dRworks). Dismantling Racism Works web workbook [Internet]. [updated 2020 Jun; cited 2020 Sep 30]
*This site has a great page on racism which includes a definition and explanation.
TED talks pertaining to race/racism
I want to learn about health equity & inequity
Racial Equity Tools – Glossary
National collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. (2013). Let’s talk: Health equity.
Public Health Agency of Canada (2020). From risk to resilience: An equity approach to Covid-19. Ottawa.
World Health Organization (2018). “Health inequities and their causes.”
I want to delve deeper into conversations about racism
Brown, A. (2018). I’m still here: Black dignity in a world made for whiteness. Convergent Books.
Cooper, B. (2018). Eloquent rage: A Black feminist discovers her superpower. St. Martin’s Press.
Das Gupta, T., James, C.E., Andersen, C., Galabuzi, G.E., & Maaka, R.C.A. (Eds). (2018). Race and racialization: Essential readings (2nd Ed.).Canadian Scholars. *note this is a book with different authors per chapter. Profs/lecturers can choose chapters to assign as readings.
Kendi, I. (2019). How to be an antiracist. One World.
Livingston, R. (2020). How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace. Harvard Business Review.
Rutherford, A. (2020). How to argue with a racist: What our genes do (and don’t) say about
human difference. The Experiment.
Saad, L. (2020). Me and white supremacy: Combat racism, change the world, and become a good Ancestor. Sourcebooks.
White, D. (1999). Too heavy a load: Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994. W. W. Norton.
I want to learn about the impact of racism on Canadian health care
I want to learn about the impact of racism on individual health
Etowa, J. B., Beagan, B. L., Eghan, F., & Bernard, W. T. (2017). “You feel you have to be made of steel”: The strong Black woman, health, and well-being in Nova Scotia. Health Care for Women International, 38(4), 379-393. doi:10.1080/07399332.2017.1290099
Gravlee. C. (2009). How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 139(1), 1-4.
Krieger, N. (2014). Discrimination and health inequities. International Journal of Health Services, 44(4), 643-710. https://doi.org/10.2190/HS.44.4.b
Silverstein, J. (2013). How Racism is Bad for Our Bodies. The Atlantic.
I want to learn more about critical race theory
Ackerman-Barger, K., & Hummel, F. (2015). Critical race theory as a lens for exploring inclusion and equity in nursing education. The Journal of Theory Construction and Testing, 19(2), 39-46.
Nado Aveling (2007) Anti-racism in Schools: A question of leadership?, Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 28:1, 69-85.
Black Voices
Edugyan, E. (2021). Out of the sun: On race and storytelling. House of Anansi Press.