Bias, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Resources
Book Resources
- Adichie, Chimamanda N. Americanah. London: 4th Estate, 2013.
- Banaji, Mahzarin R., & Anthony. G. Greenwald. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People. Delacorte Press, 2013.
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
- Cole, Desmond. The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. Doubleday Canada, 2020.
- Cooper, Afua and Wilfried Raussert. Black Matters. Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd, 2020.
- DiAngelo, Robin J. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
- Elliot, Alicia. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground. Doubleday Canada, 2019.
- Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York: Pantheon Books, 2012.
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. New York, NY: One World, 2021.
- Itani, Frances. Requiem. New York: Grove Press, 2012.
- Jivani, Jamil. Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity. Harper Collins, 2018.
- Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York, NY: One World, 2019.
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2015.
- King, Thomas. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. U of Minnesota Press, 2013.
- Maracle, Lee. I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism. Press Gang Publishers, 1996.
- Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black Lives, Revised and Expanded Edition: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Winnipeg, MB: Fernwood Publishing, 2025.
- Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. United States: Central Recovery Press, LLC, 2017.
- Mlodinow, Leonard. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior. Pantheon/Random House, 2012.
- Neiman, Susan. Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Nordell, Jessica. The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
- Saad, Layla F. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2020.
- Sniderman, Andrew Stobo and Douglas Sanderson. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation. Toronto, ON: Harper Collins, 2022.
- Tavris, Carol and Elliot Aronson. Mistakes were Made (but Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts. Harcourt, 2007.
- Wagamese, Richard. Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations. Blackstone Publishing, 2019.
- Wagamese, Richard. Indian Horse: A Novel. Minneapolis: Milweed Editions, 2018.
- Wagamese, Richard. Keeper’n Me. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1994.
- Wagamese, Richard. One Story, One Song. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2016.
- Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Waterville, ME, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
Podcasts
Democracy Now! – https://www.democracynow.org/pages/help/podcasting
On Being with Krista Tippett: Resmaa Menakem ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’ – https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence/
Parenting: Difficult Conversations: Talking Race With Young Children – https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716700866/talking-race-with-young-children
Unlocking Us with Brené Brown: Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist –https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bren%C3%A9-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist/id1494350511?i=1000476611079
Online Resources
- A 21st-century indigenous woman’s experience https://www.ted.com/talks/carmen_yupe_a_21st_century_indigenous_woman_s_experience
- A portion of “Color of Fear – What it Means to be American” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nmhAJYxFT4
- BBC: “Where Are You From?” The Game – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU_htgjlMVE
- Breaking the silence surrounding Canada’s Indigenous crisis https://www.ted.com/talks/qajaq_robinson_breaking_the_silence_surrounding_canada_s_indigenous_crisis
- Canadian Shame: A History of Residential Schools – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1EDbbse2BM
- Changing the way we see Native Americans – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIzYzz3rEZU
- Club Native – https://www.nfb.ca/film/club_native/
- Color blind or color brave? https://www.ted.com/talks/mellody_hobson_color_blind_or_color_brave#t-592985
- Column: Why is ‘people of color’ OK but not ‘colored people’? A reading list for white folks. https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-dahleen-glanton-colored-email-reading-list-20200304-utx7geiwm5hupa3t7w6xr3xqn4-story.html
- Dark nights and white knuckles – https://faithandleadership.com/dark-nights-and-white-knuckles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Dark%20nights%20and%20white%20knuckles&utm_campaign=faithleadership
- Elise Roy: When we design for disability, we all benefit | TED Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/elise_roy_when_we_design_for_disability_we_all_benefit
- Get comfortable with being uncomfortable https://www.ted.com/talks/luvvie_ajayi_get_comfortable_with_being_uncomfortable
- Healing through story: Unpacking Indigenous resiliency and hope – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDVwebiriAo
- Heineken beer commercial – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbIjGxc1vjo
- How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time. https://www.ted.com/talks/baratunde_thurston_how_to_deconstruct_racism_one_headline_at_a_time
- How “white fragility “reinforces racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvIO2GU8yTU
- I grew up in Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s why I left. https://www.ted.com/talks/megan_phelps_roper_i_grew_up_in_the_westboro_baptist_church_here_s_why_i_left#t-746119
- If we had only known…whistle blowers, Florence Nightingale, and residential schools. https://activehistory.ca/blog/2020/02/10/if-only-we-had-only-known-whistle-blowers-florence-nightingale-and-residential-schools/
- Implicit Bias – How We Hold Women Back – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM1MBSczyzI
- Indigenous In Plain Sight https://www.ted.com/talks/gregg_deal_indigenous_in_plain_sight
- Land acknowledgment | Baroness von Sketch Show – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlG17C19nYo
- Life of privilege explained in a $100 race – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps
- Lt General David Morrison on the role of soldiers in ending sexual violence in conflict – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZAFEorwqv0
- Meghan Hussey: 4 ways to design a disability-friendly future | TED Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/meghan_hussey_4_ways_to_design_a_disability_friendly_future
- My descent into America’s neo-Nazi movement — and how I got out. https://www.ted.com/talks/christian_picciolini_my_descent_into_america_s_neo_nazi_movement_and_how_i_got_out
- National Equity Project: Don’t talk about Implicit Bias without talking about Structural Racism – https://medium.com/national-equity-project/implicit-bias-structural-racism-6c52cf0f4a92
- Parable of polygons – https://ncase.me/polygons/
- Procter & Gamble: THE TALK – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4bGnHF30ig&feature=youtu.be
- Programme of Activities for the Implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent. https://www.un.org/en/observances/decade-people-african-descent/programme-activities
- Progress on Realizing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action https://afn.bynder.com/m/21a223c344077b7/original/Progress-on-Realizing-the-Truth-and-Reconciliation-Commission-s-Calls-to-Action-September-2025.pdf
- Texas attorney describes white privilege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kss1jMiNbA
- That Little Voice – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll56imVATLk
- The Doll test – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM
- The legacy of anti-Black racism: The public health crisis of racial trauma – https://theconversation.com/the-legacy-of-anti-black-racism-the-public-health-crisis-of-racial-trauma-246104
- The lie that invented racism https://www.ted.com/talks/john_biewen_the_lie_that_invented_racism#t-1004128
- The New Yorker: Rewriting racist headlines https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/rewriting-racist-headlines?verso=true
- The power of vulnerability https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability
- The secret to changing the world – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5SNpCtiWk
- The Urgency of Intersectionality https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en#t-1120175
- TRC Calls to Action Status – https://www.indigenouswatchdog.org/2025/03/05/trc-calls-to-action-status-may-13-2022/
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada – Calls to Action – https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
- Two Canadas: my story of generosity and systemic racism – Honorable Ahmed Hussen https://www.ted.com/talks/honourable_ahmed_hussen_a_tale_of_two_canadas_my_story_of_generosity_and_systemic_racism/transcript?language=en
- Two recent stories show that hurt sentiments are the privilege of a few – https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-widdowson-elghawaby-freedom-of-speech-1.6746799
- Understanding My Privilege – https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=XlRxqC0Sze4&feature=emb_logo
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf
- We need to address the real roots of racial violence https://www.ted.com/talks/megan_ming_francis_we_need_to_address_the_real_roots_of_racial_violence
- What does my headscarf mean to you? https://www.ted.com/talks/yassmin_abdel_magied_what_does_my_headscarf_mean_to_you?language=en
- What is privilege? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5f8GuNuGQ
- White Privilege: Unpack your invisible knapsack – https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack
- Whose land are you on? What to know about the Indigenous Land Back movement https://www.ted.com/talks/lindsey_schneider_whose_land_are_you_on_what_to_know_about_the_indigenous_land_back_movement?language=en
- Why Indigenous Languages Matter and What We Can Do to Save Them – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2HiPW_qSrs
- Words and phrases you may want to think twice about using https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/words-and-phrases-commonly-used-offensive-english-language-1.6252274
30+ Examples of Biased Language You Should Know https://blog.ongig.com/diversity-and-inclusion/biased-language-examples/#:~:text=Using%20%E2%80%9Cconfined%20to%20a%20wheelchair,40%20against%20age%2Drelated%20discrimination
8+ Problematic Phrases in the Workplace (and 8+ Alternatives) https://www.deannasingh.com/blog/problematic-workplace-phrases-alternatives#:~:text=Problem%20Phrase%20%231:%20%E2%80%9CCrack,%234:%20%E2%80%9CMy%20tribe%E2%80%9D