Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous & Systemic Racism

updated February 2024

News sources where you might find stories dealing with many forms of racisms, and resistance.

Unrigged.ca: a non-profit journalism collaboration featuring 20 award-winning publishers of online articles and op-eds, print magazines, community newspapers, and podcasts covering news and current events across Canada. National publishers include The Breach Media, The Resolve, Ricochet Media, The Media Co-op, Canadian Dimension, and Press Progress.
Ricochet - public interest journalism
The Narwhal (environmental racisms)
the Conversation (academics writing short pieces)
Indigenous news feeds in the Pîkiskwêtân Companion Resource Guides
APTN News
CBC Indigenous
Byblacks.com
CBC Being Black in Canada
SEE also:
Antiracism in the Canadian media strategy resources by the Community Media Advocacy Centre

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Détours with Emilie Nicolas
join noted journalist Emilie Nicolas and a rotating cast of big thinking media personalities, journalists, and authors to discuss, dissect and debate the news and dive deep into hot button topics that are important to Francophones across the country, always with a critical antiracism lens
Media Indigena
The Secret Life of Canada
Sandy & Nora Talk Politics
Cite Black Women
Unreserved
Warrior life with Pamela Palmater
Portraits of Black Canadians

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INQUIRIES:

Public Inquiry Commission on relations between Indigenous Peoples and certain public services in Québec (2019, "Viens Report" on mistreatment of Indigenous peoples in healthcare and more) | Summary Report
Guide to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry (2019)
Guide to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission Inquiry (2015)
Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq (Qikiqtani Truth Commission): Final Report, Qikiqtani Inuit Association (2014)
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996)

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CANADIAN PROJECTS:

Citational Politics - CLEAR library
A public reading list hosted and regularly updated on Zotero. More about it on CLEAR's Citational Politics page.
More Than Personal Communication: Templates For Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers
An attempt to formalize something that Indigenous scholars have been doing for decades: fighting to find a better way to acknowledge our voices and knowledges within academia. Developped by Lorisia MacLeod, James Smith Cree Nation.
Reading List for Pioneers Long Before #MoiAussi: Black Women, Rape Culture, and Digital Feminist Activism in Quebec
A very local and specific example of the work being centered by the Black Women Radicals organization, which also includes a browsable Black Women Radicals Database.
Finding Indigenous voices: Approaches for discovering Indigenous scholars and authors
Though some of the links, resources and contacts named are particular to Simon Fraser University where this guide was written, many of the principles and practices can be just as useful to Concordia researchers. Contact one of us for further guidance.
Finding Indigenous Perspectives: Reverse Citation Search (UBC)
A demonstrated "cited by" search strategy in Google Scholar.
Writing & Citing Guides for Indigenous Journalism
These guidelines for journalists can also be useful for citation practices.
Citational Relations
Bibliographic essay by Daniel Heath Justice, from the book Why indigenous Literatures Matter
Episode 3.21 Citing Your Sources (Secret Feminist Agenda Podcast)
sound citational politics are both the cornerstone of what’s good about academia and the potential site of massive transformations in how we do our work

Aimed at educators (but also useful for researchers):

Cultivating a Conscientious Citation Practice
A post from the unwritten histories blog. More than a dozen ideas and links to useful resources.
Appropriation vs. Incorporation: Indigenous Content in the Canadian History Classroom
This post is part of a Beyond the Lecture mini-series, dedicated to the issue of teaching Indigenous history and the inclusion of Indigenous content in the classroom. Our goal is to provide resources for educators at all levels to help navigate the often fraught terrain of teaching Indigenous content.
Citation Politics (episode 51, Historical Reminiscents podcast)
In this episode I talk about the politics of citation and developing a more pro-active and critical approach to thinking about citations.
Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor)
I believe that bibliographies and endnotes and references and sources are alternative stories that can, in the most generous sense, centralize the practice of sharing ideas about liberation and resistance and writing against racial and sexual violence. Chapter from the book Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick.

U.S. ARTICLES AND PROJECTS:

Decolonizing Attribution: Traditions of Exclusion
[...] a structural critique of attribution as it is figured in colonial practices and ongoing settler-colonial logics that form the basis for creating, circulating, and sharing knowledge through research practices, methods, and platforms. byJane Anderson and Kimberly Christen.
Cite Black Authors - Database of work authored by Black academics
We seek to enhance recognition and citation of Black academic voices. Our approach requires a shift from traditional citation practices that are passive and white-centric to active citation practices that both quantify and equilibrate racial representation.
Cite Black Women
Cite Black Women is a Black feminist intellectual project, praxis, and global movement to decolonize the practice of citation by redressing the epistemic erasure of Black women from the literal and figurative bibliographies of the world. (from Feminist Anthropology, May 2021 issue)