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• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  Not sure where to start in discussions about race and racial prejudices? This is a great place to start. Oluo guides the reader through discussions about white privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, and the Black Lives Matters…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Me and White Supremacy

  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

  Saad, Layla F,

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  Initially offered as an Instagram challenge as a way for white people to examine how they uphold white supremacy, Layla Saad then wrote this workbook instructing readers on how to understand and interrogate their white privilege and how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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  Ibram X. Kendi writes about his own awakening to anti-racism, and helps the reader to interrogate their own biases, policies and social arrangements that support white supremacy.

• White Fragility

  Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism

  DiAngelo, Robin J.,

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  Robin DiAngelo discusses the defensiveness that white people often feel when discussing their own privilege and racism, and how that can be combated so we can engage in discussions of racism more constructively.

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Alexander, Michelle,

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  An in-depth examination of the criminal justice system and how it upholds white supremacy and unfairly targets black men.

• Policing Black Lives

  State Violence in Canada From Slavery to the Present

  Maynard, Robyn, 1987-

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  Looking for a Canadian perspective on how systemic racism has affected the lives of Black Canadians? This book covers state-sanctioned policies and punishments of Black lives in Canada, spanning from pre-18th century to the modern era.

• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

  Eddo-Lodge, Reni,

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  A discussion about racism, whitewashed feminism and the link between class and race, along with a framework on how to see and disrupt racism and white privilege.

• When They Call You a Terrorist

  a Black Lives Matter Memoir

  Khan-Cullors, Patrisse, 1984-

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  A memoir from the women who founded the Black Lives Matter movement and the life experiences that led to their activism.

• I've Been Meaning to Tell You

  a Letter to My Daughter

  Chariandy, David, 1969-

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  Acclaimed novelist David Chariandy writes to his daughter about what it means to be black in Canada.

• The Fire Next Time

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,

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  A significant text about racism during the Civil Rights era, Baldwin’s collection of essays has enduring meaning today.

• The Skin We're in

  a Year of Black Resistance and Power

  Cole, Desmond, 1982-

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  Desmond Cole chronicles one year of the struggle against racism in Canada, including his groundbreaking article about the racist actions of the Toronto police force, and skewering the Canadian belief that structural racism doesn't exist in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Like Who?

  Writing Black Canada

  Walcott, Rinaldo, 1965-

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  A groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, spanning hip-hop, literature, and social movements, as well as an examination of what blackness means in a Canadian context.