Equity & Anti-Racism Resources
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This list will be updated by November 25, 2022.
*United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024): https://www.un.org/en/observances/decade-people-african-descent “In proclaiming this Decade, the international community is recognizing that people of African descent represent a distinct group whose human rights must be promoted and protected.” Also, explore the multimedia library. Ask your local libraries and school libraries to have a section dedicated to the literature of and written by persons of African Descent.
*United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples-https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html
“The Declaration is a comprehensive statement addressing the human rights of indigenous peoples. It was drafted and formally debated for over twenty years prior to being adopted by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007. The document emphasizes the rights of indigenous peoples to live in dignity, to maintain and strengthen their own institutions, cultures and traditions and to pursue their self-determined development, in keeping with their own needs and aspirations. “ FAQ - https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/faq_drips_en.pdf
https://www.reconciliationeducation.ca/what-are-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-94-calls-to-action
*Diversify Your Narrative - https://www.diversifyournarrative.com - under Educators you will find links to lesson plans/book lists etc.
*Challenging Racist BC 150 years and counting: https://www.challengeracistbc.ca - has a teacher resources section which includes video.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls for Action:
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-governments/indigenous-people/aboriginal-peoples-documents/calls_to_action_english2.pdf
*National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/
*Introduction to Learning Anti-Racism Toolkit: The Toolkit and materials were launched March 29, 2022 and can be found on the VMS website, www.victoriamultifaith.com (under Resources) and the Centre for Civic Religious Literacy website. You can see an introduction to the tool kit on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEqBdvQOTg8 (1 hour and 15 mins).
*Dr. Sue: Microaggressions/Macroaggresions - https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/faculty-retention-success/Files/Racial-Microaggressions.pdf
*Microintervention Strategies -Disarm and Dismantle Individual and Systemic Racism and Bias by Dr. Derald Wing Sue et al. (Book)
*Racism in Greater Victoria: A Community Report by the Greater Victoria Local Immigration Partnership and the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria - https://www.icavictoria.org/stories/racism-in-greater-victoria-a-community-report-released/
*Anti-Asian Zine (made for students and great for everyone-addresses Anti-Asian racism) -https://www.uvic.ca/education/news/featured/current/anti-asian-racism-zine.php and https://www.growthandsolidarity.ca/zine/ and https://www.growthandsolidarity.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Cultivating-Growth-and-Solidarity-Fillable.pdf
*CBC launches expanded website BEING BLACK IN CANADA, featuring the stories and experiences of Black Canadians: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/beingblackincanada
TALKING EDUCATION
*The N-Word: Confronting Racial Slurs in Literature: https://bookriot.com/racial-slurs-in-literature/
*The N-Word "Double Standard by Chesca Leigh https://youtu.be/_LK-j8ZED44
* Four reasons why white people can't use the N word by educator Jamie Utt : https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/03/white-people-cant-use-the-n-word/
*Anti-Racist Education Remembrance Day- You will find links to Youtube videos that honour Indigenous, Black, and Female Armed Force Members: https://www.etfowr.ca/equityminute_remembrance_day
*Abolitionist Teaching Network: https://abolitionistteachingnetwork.org/ & Resources for Agitators https://abolitionistteachingnetwork.org/resources-for-agitators
*My Life in Education as a Native Teacher with Shgen George: A personal look at culturally responsive education." (62 mins) This is the wonderful video. Shgen George is a Tlingit educator: https://youtu.be/H6WtQz40rN0
*Counting Descent by Clint Smith (2 mins): (Imagine having your students illustrate their abilities in this way) https://youtu.be/FdN4ITOE2Rw
*Educators For Antiracism https://www.edantiracism.com - An extensive array of antiracism resources for educators: https://www.edantiracism.com/anti-racist-resources & https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwuIzbO7OaHiIrsbyTzlGjA/featured
*Grading for Equity (60 mins): “Joe Feldman describes how grading practices that are accurate, bias-resistant, and motivational can reduce those gaps, improve learning for all students, minimize grade inflation, and become a lever for creating stronger teacher-student relationships and more caring classrooms.” https://youtu.be/xtYWdsT1O8k
Juneteenth - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/opinion/juneteenth-slavery-freedom.html.
July 9, 2021 : Dr. Tracy Bear & Dr. Paul Gareau offered a free Indigenous Canada Course via Coursera and the University of Alberta. “Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explored key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Topics for the 12 lessons included the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions.” The course required 3-5 hours of your time each week. https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada.
*We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom: Dr. Bettina L. Love
TALKING TO KIDS
*How to Talk to Kids About Racism for Parents and Educators (Canada focused- 70 mins) https://youtu.be/Xy5LAN0D7cU
*Dr. Kyra Banks from Raising Equity (USA focused - 74 mins in length). This is a panel of both Black and Non-Black parents: https://youtu.be/yAY9VJlzZ-Q
*AKOMA Vancouver has a talk on their website: How to Talk to Kids about Racism & Becoming an Anti-Racist Ally by Jen Nickel
*Sesame Street explains Black Lives Matter (5 mins in length) https://youtu.be/xBUFcv0y0yk
UNDERSTANDING TERMS
UBC EQUITY & INCLUSION GLOSSARY OF TERMS: https://equity.ubc.ca/resources/equity-inclusion-glossary-of-terms/
UNDERSTANDING ANTI-BLACK RACISM AND RACISM
*Math and Anti-Racism: A discussion of math and antiracism led by Dr. Luis Leyva and Dr. Nicole Joseph (83 mins). https://youtu.be/5cX4jWFVCu4 .
*Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre-Calgary Anti-Racism Education http://www.aclrc.com/external-resources
*BCTF Social Justice section on Racism (numerous resources for educators and very good for parents as well) https://bctf.ca/SocialJustice.aspx?id=21344
*Embrace Race: https://www.embracerace.org/resources/20-picture-books-for-2020
*Team Canada - numerous resources here: https://olympic.ca/team-canada-anti-racism-resources/
*21 Day Equity Challenge by Dr. Eddie Moore - https://www.eddiemoorejr.com/21daychallenge
*White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide by Dr. Carol Anderson (United States) https://www.youtube.com/watchv=YBYUET24K1c&feature=youtu.be
*Why Every Word Doesn’t Belong to Everyone by Ta-Nehsi Coates (This video uses slurs that might be triggering for minoritized and racialized groups). https://youtu.be/QO15S3WC9pg
*Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehsi Coates
*Systemic Racism is Real explained in 3 mins: https://youtu.be/fTcSVQJ2h8g
*Know Your Rights-Anti-Black Racism in Education from Stolen from Africa (Canadian Focused) June 16, 2020 - “This session is for Black students, parents and supporters to share questions and concerns with legal and education professionals on Anti-Black Racism.” https://youtu.be/kyd6xhFzPJ8
*Colour Code: A Podcast About Race In Canada with Denise Balkissoon and Hannah Sung https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/colour-code-podcast-race-in-canada/article31494658/
*BC Teachers Federation: https://www.bctf.ca/SocialJustice.aspx?id=17632 . This site has numerous resources. Although it was designed for teachers, it is a good resource for parents and the broader community.
Ijeoma Oluo’s Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/confronting-racism-is-not-about-the-needs-and-feelings-of-white-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The Kirwan Institute of Race and Ethnicity: http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu
*Understanding Bias
*K-12 History Education: The Secret Life of Canada https://www.cbc.ca/radio/secretlifeofcanada and Teaching Hard History https://www.tolerance.org/podcasts/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery &
Middle Ground
*Implicit Bias Module Series by Kirwan Institute For The Study of Race And Ethnicity: https://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/implicit-bias-training
The Kirwan Institute of Race and Ethnicity publishes an annual comprehensive summary of the implicit bias research. These reports can be downloaded for free from http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/research/understanding-implicit-bias
26 Mini-Films for exploring race, bias, and identity with students
UNDERSTANDING MICROAGGRESSIONS
*Dr. Sue: Microaggressions/Macroaggresions (2019) - https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/faculty-retention-success/Files/Racial-Microaggressions.pdf
*Microintervention Strategies (2020) -Disarm and Dismantle Individual and Systemic Racism and Bias by Dr. Derald Wing Sue et al. (Book)
*You Can't Ask That (has various seasons): https://youtu.be/jf7RFdfuWWM
*I'm not your inspiration by Stella Young: https://youtu.be/8K9Gg164Bsw
*Dr. Derald Sue: How unintentional but insidious bias can be the most harmful: https://youtu.be/mgvjnxr6OCE
How Microaggressions Are Like Mosquito Bites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDd3bzA7450 A 2 minute video (has cursing) that discusses the impacts of microaggressions:
*Microaggressions In The Classroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahtlxW2CIQ
WHITE FRAGILITY, IDENTITY, PRIVILEGE, AND SUPREMACY
*4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Hijacking the Conversation on Racial Justice (2019) by Jennifer Loubriel
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/4-ways-white-people-can-process-their-emotions-without-bringing-the-white-tears/?fbclid=IwAR1domdkWXOoegEgvsr39YnYgZ-91ieP4lYhCWlUp1CFgjbLmfBheAMBV08
*21 Day Equity Challenge by Dr. Eddie Moore - https://www.eddiemoorejr.com/21daychallenge
*Layla Saad & Robin DiAngelo: Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
*Tim Wise
*Reni Eddo-Lodge: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race. You can also listen to the audio version of this long read.
*Ella Wilks-Harper, Nikhita Chulani, Jamie Macwhirter, Neelam Tailorand Katie Lamborn: June 26, 2020 How White Fragility reinforces racism. https://youtu.be/YvIO2GU8yTU
*Dr. Robin DiAngelo - Nice Racism https://robindiangelo.com…..also her website has a lot of resources scroll down to HOW To Tools - https://www.robindiangelo.com/resources/. Please note that this is a resource area designed primarily for white educators in US.
*Dr. Robin DiAngelo - White Fragility https://robindiangelo.com
*Dr. Robin DiAngelo author of White Fragility - "Why I'm Not Racist" https://youtu.be/kzLT54QjclA
*AKOMA Vancouver has a talk on their website June 2020: Becoming an Anti-Racist Ally by Jen Nickel
Articles by C. Matias may require you to go through your institution. Here are 2:
*Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education (2016) “Discussing race and racism often conjures up emotions of guilt, shame, anger, defensiveness, denial, sadness, dissonance, and discomfort. Instead of suppressing those feelings, coined emotionalities of whiteness, they are, nonetheless, important to identify, understand, and deconstruct if one ever hopes to fully commit to racial equity. Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education delves deeper into these white emotionalities.”
*Check Yo'self before You Wreck Yo'self and Our Kids: Counterstories from Culturally Responsive White Teachers? . . . To Culturally Responsive White Teachers! (2013)-”…..Yet few articulate the dynamics of how whiteness impacts the delivery of culturally responsive teaching. Using critical whiteness studies, critical race theory, and Black feminist concepts, this article interrogates the effectiveness of White teachers who engage in culturally responsive teaching without first interrogating their whiteness.”
*A Mathematicians Lament: https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
*Intersectional Environmentalist: Their Mission :”We hope to empower + instill joy in people of color and historically excluded communities by amplifying the incredible legacies of diverse people in the environmental space throughout history and in the present - because we believe with representation, and an understanding that they have always been part of environmental history, we’ll empower a new generation of environmentalists and reshape the future of environmentalism to one that is rooted in equity and inclusion.” https://www.intersectionalenvironmentalist.com/about
*ELECT HER: A ROADMAP FOR IMPROVING THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN CANADIAN POLITICS : Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women - https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/FEWO/Reports/RP10366034/feworp14/feworp14-e.pdf
*In this election, what’s a black voter to do? - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-in-this-election-whats-a-black-voter-to-do/?utm_source=Shared+Article+Sent+to+User&utm_medium=E-mail:+Newsletters+/+E-Blasts+/+etc.&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links
TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION-ONE BLACK VOICE
Chad Goller-Sojourner: “Your Child Should Not be Your First Black Friend.”
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/26/266434175/growing-up-white-transracial-adoptee-learned-to-be-black
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Math Teachers from Anti-Racist Mathematics Presentation :
twitter #RehumanizeMath
Math Teachers for Anti-Racism(US-Private Group): You all will make your own! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1273812173010557/
Website Links
The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics (2011): http://www.ms.uky.edu/~sohum/ma330/files/Crest_of_the_peacock.pdf
Ethnomathematics: https://coe.hawaii.edu/ethnomath/ and https://coe.hawaii.edu/ethnomath/blog/
For the person who asked about antiracist grading policy, I really liked this book: https://bookshop.org/books/grading-for-equity-what-it-is-why-it-matters-and-how-it-can-transform-schools-and-classrooms/9781506391571School Mathematics for Reconciliation: From a 19th to a 21st Century Curriculum by Glen Aikenhead (2017; University of Saskatchewan) https://education.usask.ca/documents/profiles/aikenhead/School-Mathematics-for-Reconciliation-vB11.pdf
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics & Teaching Children’s Mathematics Journal (practitioner focus): https://www.nctm.org/Publications/Teaching-Children-Mathematics/About-Teaching-Children-Mathematics/
Changing the Conversation: “National Academy of Engineering asked people if they wanted to be engineers: Girls were twice as likely as boys to say no. But when asked if they would like to design a safe water system, save the rainforest, or use DNA to solve crimes, the girls answered yes.” https://www.nap.edu/read/12187/chapter/5?term=76#77
How To Begin Bringing Rich and Inclusive Math History Resources Inside K to 12 Classrooms (July, 2020): https://medium.com/@sunilsingh_42118/how-to-begin-bringing-rich-and-inclusive-math-history-resources-inside-k-to-12-classrooms-2d0a4162e6fc
Aboriginal Perspectives and/in Mathematics: A Case Study of Three Grade 6 Teachers by Kathleen Nolan and J. Harley Weston (2015; University of Regina): https://ineducation.ca/ineducation/article/view/195
Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers
MATHEMATICS FOR HUMAN FLOURISHING by Francis Su
What Does Race Have to Do With Math by Alice Aspinall: https://www.edumatchpublishing.com/post/what-does-race-have-to-do-with-math
Improving Math Curriculum for English Language Learners: https://www.edutopia.org/article/improving-math-curriculum-english-language-learners
A Framework for Re-envisioning Mathematics Instruction for ELL (2016) *Please review and let me know if you believe this is a good resource - I do not have the subject matter expertise and this was suggested to me. This is US based by The Council of Great City Schools: https://www.cgcs.org/cms/lib/DC00001581/Centricity/Domain/87/FrameworkForMath4ELLs.pdf
What Does Anti-Racism in Mathematics Look Like by Vanessa Rivera-Quinones (July, 2020) https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2020/06/21/what-does-anti-racist-mathematics-look-like/
How Does Race Affect a Student's Math Education? by Melinda Anderson (2017) https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/04/racist-math-education/524199/
*Dr.Leyva and Dr. Joseph used Chapter 2 from “The Brilliance of Black Children in Mathematics” which gives the historical perspective of the math education of Black children from 1900 to the present and “The Man Who Counted” (author: Malba Tahan, a pseudonym) is a wonderful novel, a collection of stories that shares much of the PERSIAN MATH, illuminating Islamic origins of many beautiful math elements. Connects math with some spiritual connections and history.
Consider creating similar documents/examples for Canadian students and Canadian context: Go to Math Section and you will see a couple of examples including Not Just White Dudes Mathematics and Black Mathematicians Monthly.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/182TX6yIFecg9bILGXdAmB0dRHRvhi2-ordWXPErM070/edit
**Not Just White Dudes Mathematics: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AOc7RHJr0TJQbjiyhuReFYjP3g-oN_ycRQISQuyPfSw/edit#gid=239042764
**Black Mathematicians Monthly http://kristopherchilds.com/black-mathematician-month - think about creating one for your country.
PAST CONFERENCES: Worth searching to see if they are going to have a similar conference this year.
National Educators Anti-Racism Conference : Beginning August 8th-August 12th 2021 National Educators Conference https://www.eventbrite.com/o/educators-for-anti-racism-30679388882 - to register for all events - times are Eastern. Registration is limited to 500 educators and can close at any time. Register as soon as possible. This conference is based in the United States but Canadian educators will also find it applicable. Sessions will address anti-racism by subject area (e.g., math, english, science), by role/specialization in school (e.g., administrator, counsellor, union, special education etc). They are free and ASL interpretation is provided for all sessions. To get information on presenters and details of sessions, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/abolitionistteachingbookclub/home . If you scroll down to Conference, you will see all the events for the week. , Further, the site is now a hub for anti-racist resources by subject area.