Resources

Books by Topic 

Reclaiming our History 

● The White Racial Frame (3rd edition) 2020 Joe R. Feagin 

● How the South Won the Civil War 2020 Heather Cox Richardson https://a.co/d/iVux99h

● The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration 2011 Isabel Wilkerson https://a.co/d/iLaUg3Q 

● A People’s History of the United States 2015 Howard Zinn https://a.co/d/hEzQrMh 

Mindsets and Legacies of Racism/Colonialism 

● White Fragility 2018 Robin DiAngelo https://a.co/d/7nwJZHF 

● Dying of Whiteness 2019 Johnathan A. Metzel https://a.co/d/3UeViUA

● Racing to Justice 2015 john a. powell https://a.co/d/fLu2lzN 

● The Colonizer and the Colonized 1965 Albert Memmi https://a.co/d/1PZalW1

● Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 2020 Isabel Wilkerson https://a.co/d/iGfPNab 

Indigenous Perspectives 

● The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee David Treuer https://a.co/d/625gk8g

● Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto Vine DeLoria, Jr. 1988 https://a.co/d/2AFrkHD 

● An Indigenous People's History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2015 https://a.co/d/8lsQgjI 

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The Criminalization of Blackness/BIPOC 

● Just Mercy 2014 Bryan Stevenson https://a.co/d/iMNfk4f 

● The New Jim Crow 2020 Michelle Alexander https://a.co/d/0vppFdw 

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Taking it to the Streets: Theory and Tools for Building Antiracism Knowledge

● Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements 2019 Charlene Carruthers https://a.co/d/h2xFiZh 

● Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment 2021 Zach Norris https://a.co/d/bApQnLq 

● How Minds Change:The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion 2022 David McRaney https://a.co/d/cRteldP 

● The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together 2022 Heather McGhee https://a.co/d/a61dQeb 

● How to Be an Antiracist 2019 Ibram X. Kendi https://a.co/d/cN5sSfB

● My Grandmother's Hands 2017 Resmaa Menakem https://a.co/d/htnlpRi

● Managing Microaggressions: Addressing Everyday Racism in Therapeutic Spaces 2020 Monnica T. Williams https://a.co/d/aMf2ecI 

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Blogs and Newsletters 

● Anti-Racism Daily A daily anti-racism newsletter to learn and take action.

● Letters From an American https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/about This is a chronicle of today’s political landscape, but because you can’t get a grip on today’s politics without an outline of America’s Constitution, and laws, and the economy, and social customs, this newsletter explores what it means, and what it has meant, to be an American. 

● Neighbor, A Handbook 

https://medium.com/@amyepayne/neighbor-chapter-one-7e73198e5615

● THE FORUM | AAPF The Forum is a source of news and commentary deploying the insights of critical race theory, and supplying the materials and organizing strategies to re-envision American democracy from the ground up. 

Podcasts 

● All My Relations Podcast Current issues concerning Indigenous peoples.

● Listen to ‘1619,’ a Podcast From The New York Times An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling 

● Radical Imagination The Radical Imagination podcast dives into the stories and solutions that are fueling change. It features changemakers and visionaries who manifest that vision of justice and fairness for all, and who help us to do the same.

● Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast on Apple Podcasts

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Decolonization in the Classroom Resources

• Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions These guides are the result of a collaboration between BCcampus and the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills. The project was led by a steering committee of Indigenous education leaders from B.C universities, colleges, and institutes, the First Nations Education Steering Committee, the Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association, and Métis Nation BC. There is a Foundational Guide as well as guides for Teachers

       and Instructors, Leaders and Administrators, Front Line Staff, Advisors, and Student    Services, Curriculum Developers and Researchers.   

• Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

• Decolonize your Syllabus: An Interview with Yvette DeChavez. Helebore Press.

• Ricardo Levins Morales video: A Circle by the River: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/category/videos/   (second video on page) 

• Joy Harjo Poem: For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Fee

• Billy-Ray Belcourt Poem: Sacred.

• Elwood, J., Andreotti, V., & Stein, S. (2019). Towards Braiding.

• Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective. (2021)

• Developing Stamina for Decolonizing Higher Education: A Workbook for Non-Indigenous People.

• Pedagogy of the Decolonizing | Quetzala Carson | TEDxUAlberta 

• A Beginner's Guide to Decolonization | Kevin Lamoureux | TEDxSurrey

• Decolonization Is for Everyone | Nikki Sanchez | TEDxSFU

• Betasamosake Simpson, L. (2011). Dancing on our turtles back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Recreation,Resurgence, and a New Emergence. Arbeiter Ring Publishing.

• Betasamosake Simpson, L. (2020). As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press.

• Betasamosake Simpson, L., & Maynard, R. (2023). Rehearsals for Living. Vintage Canada.

• Krawec, P. (2022). Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past, Reimagining Our Future. Broadleaf Books.

• Cote-Meek, S. (2014). Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma, and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education. Fernwood Publishing.

• Battiste, M. (2013). Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit, Purich Publishing. Tuck, E. and Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 1(1): 1–40.

• Vowel, C. (2016). Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada. Highwater Press

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