Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression Resources
As a community, we are engaged in an institutional equity action planning process and I urge us to continue to dedicate ourselves to working toward actions that help us realize our collective commitments to equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism. - President Kevin Hall (view full president's statement)
Books
- The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
- So You Want to Talk About Race
- Caste - The Origins of Our Discontents
- Situating "Race" and Racisms in Space, Time and Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars
- Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian residential schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada
- Circle works: transforming eurocentric consciousness
- Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada
- Dancing on Our Turtle's Back
- Race, work, and leadership: new perspectives on the black experience
- Anti-Asian Violence in North America
- Racism, dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the present: a documentary history
- Anti-Asiaphobia
- What is Islamophobia and how to counter it?
- Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics
- Engaging the Other
- White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
- A Guide to Gender: The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook
- Fairly Equal: Lawyering the Feminist Revolution
- Gender, race & Canadian law: a custom textbook from Fernwood
Online Resources
- Read BIPOC: A list of books by black, Indigenous and/or people of color writers
- Embrace Bend: Decolonize this Book Club
- Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization/Reconciliation: Resources for Law Students
- Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism: Resources for Law Students
- Anti-Racisim Bookshelf
Further Reading
For further published resources, please visit the following libguides:
Equity and Diversity
In addition to this reading list, the Equity and Human Rights page is a resource for all UVic community members, providing education, information, assistance and advice in aid of building and supporting an inclusive campus. We believe that our campus should represent the diversity of our larger communities and that every person--student staff and faculty--should be treated equitably.
Contact
You can contact any of the support program staff individually.
An invitation to brave space
Together we will create brave space
Because there is no such thing as a “safe space”
We exist in the real world
We all carry scars and we have all caused wounds.
In this space
We seek to turn down the volume of the outside world,
We amplify voices that fight to be heard elsewhere,
We call each other to more truth and love
We have the right to start somewhere and continue to grow.
We have the responsibility to examine what we think we know.
We will not be perfect.
This space will not be perfect.
It will not always be what we wish it to be
But It will be our brave space together, and
We will work on it side by side.
Micky Scott Bey Jones