Educational Resources
On this page, learn about various books, articles, and other educational links around different Human Rights-related topics.
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- Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism
- ‘The weight of change should not rest on the shoulders of Black people’
- Why the Black struggle in Canada has all but been erased. Two historians explain our blind spot
- Chronicle of Higher Education – A Call to Action
- What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility With Robin DiAngelo
- If Black lives truly matter in Canada, an apology for slavery is only a first step
- ‘The weight of change should not rest on the shoulders of Black people’
- Campus Toolkit for Combatting Racism (PDF, 2.01 MB)
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- The skin we’re in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power (Desmond Cole)
- How to be an antiracist (Kendi, Ibram X.)
- Balancing Competing Human Rights Claims in a Diverse Society (Ontario Human Rights Commission, Shaheen Azmi, Lorne Foster, Lesley Jacobs)
- Until we are free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (Diverlus, Rodney)
- So you want to talk about race (Ijeoma Oluo)
- Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor (Saad, Layla F)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness (Robyn Maynard)
- Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race (Beverly Daniel Tatum)
- Blank (M. NourbeSe Philip)
- North of the Color Line (Sarah-Jane Mathieu)
- Queer Returns (Rinaldo Walcott)
- Policing Black Lives (Robyn Maynard)
- I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (David Chariandy)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo)
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Resmaa Menakem)
- Me and White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)
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- OHRC statement on the National Summit on Antisemitism
- Factsheet – Antisemitism in Canada
- Understanding and Countering Antisemitism
- Interfaith Alliance – Antisemitism
- Antisemitism in Our Midst: Past and Present
- Teaching Materials on Antisemitism and Racism
- Addressing antisemitism through education (UNESCO)
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- Preventing Discrimination Based on Creed
- Taking action to build awareness and challenge hate in Ontario
- Guide to Allyship
- Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How
- 5 tips for being an ally
- The Canadian Museum of Human Rights – Us vs. Them: The process of othering
- Interfaith Alliance – Partnering Against Hate
- Islamic Networks Group – Maintaining an Inclusive Workplace
- Police-reported hate crime in Canada, 2021
- Solutions not Sides: A critical approach to education on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Racial harassment: know your rights (brochure)
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- Some Very Basic Tips for Making Higher Education More Accessible to Trans Students and Rethinking How We Talk about Gendered Bodies By Dean Spade (PDF, 66.7 KB)
- Mapping the Void: Two-Spirit and LGBTIQ+ Experiences in Hamilton (PDF, 3.36 MB)
- Safe spaces, explained (Emily Crockett)
- The Trans PULSE Canada Team (2020). Health and health care access for trans and non-binary people in Canada
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- Gender and Sexual Diversity Non-Binary Lives – An Anthology of Intersecting Identities (Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Baker, Kat Gupta)
- Not Straight, Not White (Kevin J. Mumford)
- “We are not expected” Trans*educators re claiming space and voice in higher education and student affairs. (Jurian, T. J., Simmons, S. L., & Devaney, K. C. (2015). TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2, 431–446.)
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- Nothing about Us, Without Us (James I. Charlton)
- Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice (Michelle R. Nario-Redmond)
- Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (Jay T. Dolmage)
- Privilege, Power and Difference (Allan G. Johnson)
- Privilege: A Reader (Michael S. Kimmel & Abby L. Ferber, eds.)
- Building Access (Aimi Hamraie)
- Contours of Ableism (Fiona Kumari Campbell and Fiona Kumari Campbell)
- Disfigured (Amanda Leduc)
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- Ontario Human Rights Commission E-Learning
- Policy on Preventing Discrimination and Harassment because of Sexual Orientation (PDF, 221 KB)
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability
- Accessibility Resources for Instructors
- Canadian Human Rights Commission Webinars
- Ontario Human Rights Commission eLearning: Call it out: racism, racial discrimination and human rights
- Cole, Desmond. The Skin We’re In, CBC documentary, 2017
- Parris, Amanda. Black Light [weekly series], CBC
- Jaku Konbit, African History Classes
- Campus Tool-kit for Combatting Racism (Canadian Federation of
Students) (PDF, 2.21 MB) - Robin DiAngelo, Anti-Racism Hand-out (PDF, 429 KB)
- Ontario Human Rights Commission eLearning: Call it out: racism, racial discrimination and human rights
- Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Education
- Gender Diversity Crash Course
- Policy on preventing discrimination based on creed
- Berkeley University Anti-Semitism Training