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.
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.