Immigration Partnership Resources
If you are interested in learning more about a particular topic, check out some of the resources we have compiled below.
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Anti-Racism
Islamophobia
Indigenous Peoples
Immigrants & Newcomers
Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Topic: Anti-Racism
Articles
☐ What White People Still Don’t Understand by Neil Price
☐ The Anti-Racist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi
☐ Racism in Canada is Ever-Present, But We Have A Long History of Denial by Maija Kappler
☐ Anti-Blackness is a public health crisis. It deserves more than lip service by Sane Dube
☐ My White Privilege- taking the blinders off by Liam Paschall
☐ Dear White People: Here are 10 actions you can take to promote racial justice in the workplace by Dana Brownlee
☐ So you now care about Black burdens? Prove it by Shree Paradkar
☐ Police Brutality continually treated like a “one-off” in Canada, says Desmond Cole by Padraig Moran
☐ The Coronavirus was an emergency until Trump found out who was dying by Adam Serwer
☐ Answering white people’s most commonly asked questions about the Black Lives Matter Movement by Courtney Martin
☐ White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
☐ The Intersectionality wars by Jane Coaston
☐ 103 Things White People can do for Racial Justice by Corrine Shutack
☐ 11 Anti-Racist Actions you can Take at Work Today and Everyday by Michelle Garcia
☐ What Riding my Bike has Taught me About White Privilege by Jeremy Dowsett
☐ Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others by Pepperdine University
Online Videos
☐ “How to be anti-racist: it’s more than books, quotes, and Blackout Tuesday” Washington Post
☐ “Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally” Nita Mosby Tyler
☐ “How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time” TED Speaker Baratunde Thurston
☐ “How Studying Privilege Systems can Strengthen Compassion” Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools
☐ “Racism has a cost for everyone” Heather C Mcghee at TEDxRainier
☐ “How racism makes us sick” David R. Williams at TEDMED
☐ “What it takes to be racially literate” Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo at TEDWomen
☐ “How Can We Win” David Jones Media
☐ “Video Series: 10 famous Black Canadians” Pines and Maples
☐ “How anti-racism is a treatment for the ‘cancer’ of racism” PBS NewsHour
Podcasts
☐ The Power of Martin Luther King Jr.’s anger – Codeswitch Podcast from NPR (5 min)
☐ Turning Lens, Seeing White (16 min)
☐ A decade of watching Black people die – Codeswitch Podcast from NPR (22 min)
☐ Reckoning with racial injustice in the U.S. (23 min)
☐ About race: Things can only get better (25 min)
☐ Shaping Civil Rights in Canada (23 min)
☐ Turning the lens, Seeing white (16 min)
☐ Episode 29- Black Indigenous Identity in Canada (27 min)
☐ Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma Series hosted by Dr. Carmen Logie
Films & TV Shows
☐ 13th (Ava DuVernay) – Netflix
☐ American Son (Kenny Leon) – Netflix
☐ The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr)
☐ When they See Us (Ava DuVerny) – Netflix
☐ Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)
☐ See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) – Netflix
☐ Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
Books
*Contact Huron County Public Library for more information.
☐ White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo
☐ Locking Up on Our Own by James Forman
☐ Heavy by Kiese Laymon
☐ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
☐ Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
☐ So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olou
☐ They Said This Would Be Fun by Eternity Martis
☐ Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
☐ The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
☐ The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
☐ A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
☐ Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
☐ Breathe: A Letter to my Sons by Imani Perry
☐ Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
☐ How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
☐ I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
☐ Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
☐ Tears we Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
☐ One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
☐ They Can’t Kill US All by Wesley Lowery
☐ When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
☐ Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada From Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
☐ Women, Race, Class by Angela Davis
☐ The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
☐ Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
☐ Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out by Ruth King
☐ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Organizations to Follow
☐ Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
☐ Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
☐ Black Women’s Blueprint Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
☐ The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
☐ United We Dream Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Topic: Islamophobia
Articles
☐ Yes, Islamophobia is a type of racism. Here’s why by Wes Streeting
☐ The repeated use of mosques as the background for stories on COVID-19 and fake news about Muslims as super spreaders creates concerns about violence by Khaled AL-Qazzaz
☐ Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Sentiment in the West by Gallup News
☐ Defeating hate takes more than remembering tragedy by Sanaa Ali-Mohammed and Shazlin Rahman
☐ Islamophobia may finally be getting the attention it needs by Zarqa Nawaz
☐ What does Islamophobia mean? And what does it look like? by Muriel Draaisma
☐ Islamophobia and hate crimes continue to rise in Canada by Jacques Boissinot
☐ Trudeau Condemns Islamophobia, Vows to Counter Hatred in Canada by Safaa Kasraoui
☐ Islamophobia remains in Canada after mosque shooting by Barry Ellsworth
☐ Islamophobia in Canada isn’t new. Experts say it’s time we face the problem by Arti Patel
☐ You just want to be prepared’: Why some Muslim Canadian women are taking up self-defence by Maham Abedi
☐ Calgary students battle Islamophobia during Islam Awareness Week by Michael King
☐ Muslim misconceptions: the everyday Islamophobia facing Canadians by Tania Kohut
☐ ‘Stop all racism’: Thousands march in Paris after Islamophobia attack on mosque by Global News staff
Online Videos
☐ Islamophobia killed my brother. Let’s end the hate | Suzanne Barakat (TEDTalk)
☐ A Middle Schooler’s Solution to Islamophobia | Salma Albezreh (TEDxDayton)
☐ What it’s like to be a Muslim in America | Dalia Mogahed (TEDTalk)
☐ The Muslims you cannot See | Sahar Habib Ghazi (TEDxStanford)
☐ Islamophobia and the Clash of Ignorance | Shafique Virani (TEDxUTSC)
☐ Young Muslim Americans react to Islamophobia (FUSION)
☐ How it feels to Experience Islamophobia (Junkee)
☐ 2020: Millions of Muslims negatively affected by Islamophobia (TRT World)
☐ Dangers of Islamophobia | Marc Scarcelli (TEDxCPP)
☐ The Muslim on the Airplane | Amal Kassir (TedX Talk)
☐ Why My First Ramadan Experience was Pretty Lit (AJ+)
☐ The Life of Mohammad (BBC Two)
☐ The Danger of a Single Story (TedTalk)
Podcasts
☐ Channel the Rage (CJ Werleman)
☐ Mornings with Mubarakah (Mubarakah Ibrahim)
☐ Two Arabs and a Podcast (Omer Aswad and Frass Azab)
☐ ABC Islam (Jazak Allah Khair)
☐ The War on Muslims with Mehdi Hasan (The Ezra Klein Show)
☐ Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism (Thinking Allowed)
☐ Where do we go from here? James Zogby (Voices on Islamophobia)
☐ Racism, Prevent & Structural Islamophobia Dr. Tarek Younis (Voices on Islamophobia)
Films & TV Shows
☐ Islamophobia: Cause & Effect (Full Documentary on YouTube)
☐ 14 and Muslim (CBC Gem)
☐ US Islamophobia Inc. (Aljazeera)
☐ Sabah (Directed by Ruba Nadda)
☐ Zarqa: A Fresh Portrayal of a Muslim Woman in Canada (Directed by Ana Leal Cornejo)
☐ Me and the Mosque (Directed by Zarqa Nawaz)
☐ Between Allah and Me (And Everyone Else) (Directed by Kyoko Yokoma)
☐ BBC4 Documentary- Islamic History of Europe (Directed by Rageh Omar)
☐ 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets (Starring Sir Ben Kingsley)
☐ The Sultan and the Saint (Directed by Alexander Kronemer)
☐ Islam 101 (Directed by Dr. Rev. M’ellen Kennedy
☐ Little Mosque on the Prairie (CBC Series)
Books
*Contact Huron County Public Library for more information.
☐ The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West by Todd H. Green
☐ The Enemy Within by Sayeeda Warsi
☐ The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
☐ American Islamophobia by Khaled A. Beydoun
☐ The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims by Nathan Lean
☐ Republic of Islamophobia: The Rise of Respectable Racism in France by James Wolfreys
☐ A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe by Liz Fekete
☐ The Politics of Islamophobia: Race, Power and Fantasy by David Tyrer
☐ Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy by Gabriel Greenberg and Peter Gottschalk
☐ What is Islamophobia? Racism, Social Movements and the State by Narzanin Massoumi, Toms Mills and David Miller
☐ Islam: A Short Story by Karen Armstrong
☐ The Story of the Qur’an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life by Ingrid Mattson
☐ Multiculturalism by Tariq Modood
☐ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
☐ Western Muslims and the Future of Islam by T Ramadan
☐ Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa al-Sanea
☐ Does my Head Look Big in This by Randa Abdel-Fattah
☐ Native Believer- Fiction by Ali Eteraz
☐ The Good Muslim- Fiction by Tahmima Anam
☐ Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Racism through the Lived Experiences of Muslim Youth (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education) by Naved Bakali
☐ Black Star: Britain’s Asian Youth Movements by Anandi Ramamurthy
☐ Islamophobia and Racism in America by Erik Love
☐ Go back to Where you Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy by Sasha Polakow-Suransky
☐ What everyone needs to know about Islam by John Esposito
☐ Muhammad: A Prophet of our Time by Karen Armstrong
☐ Believing Women of Islam by Asma Barlas
☐ Peace be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian and Jewis Coexistence in the Middle Eat by Zachary Karabell
☐ Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims really think by J.L Esposito and Dalia Mogahed
☐ The Saint and the Sultan by Paul Moses
☐ Laughing all the way to the mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
☐ Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
☐ The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christens Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal
Organizations & Experts to Follow
☐ Activislam Instagram
☐ Layla F. Saad Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
☐ Angelica Lindsey-Ali Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
☐ Ibram X. Kendi Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
☐ Malala Yousafzai Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
☐ Adwoa Aboah Twitter | Instagram
☐ National Council of Canadian Muslims Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Topic: Indigenous Peoples
Articles
☐ There have always been two Canadas. In this reckoning on racism, both must stand together for Indigenous people now by Tanya Talaga
☐ Canada’s injustices against Aboriginal peoples are nothing new by Gerald Caplan
☐ Canadian government withheld food from hungry aboriginal kids in 19400s nutritional experiments, research finds by Bob Weber
☐ The long history of discrimination against First Nations Children by Cindy Blackstock
☐ Canada must not ignore Indigenous ‘genocide’, landmark report warns by Leyland Cecco
☐ Racial Segregation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada by Jennifer Brant
☐ Canada’s history with Indigenous people is cruel and unfair, but we need to own up to it by Kerry Benjoe
☐ In Canada, Indigenous People are Part of Everyday Life, Not Thanksgiving Lore by Ian Austen
☐ Discrimination of Aboriginals on Native Lands in Canada by Melissa Gorelick
☐ Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration by Susan Neylan
☐ Systemic racism ‘runs very deep’ in Canada, Freeland says by Katie Dangerfield
☐ How disparities in health care hurt Black and Indigenous peoples by Kelly Chia
☐ Indigenous People Don’t Feel Safe Accessing Health Care. Here’s What Has to Change by Moira Wyton
☐ COVID-19 and the decolonization of Indigenous public health by Lisa Richardson and Allison Crawford
☐ Systemic Inequities Increase Covid-19 Risk for Indigenous People in Canada by Amanda Carling and Insiya Mankani
Online Videos
☐ ‘Canadians have been breaking their promises to Indigenous people’ CBC Docs
☐ ‘Canadian Shame: A History of Residential Schools’ Ginger Gosnell-Myers at TEDxVancouver
☐ ‘Indigenous in Plain Sight’ Gregg Deal at TEDxBoulder
☐ ‘Canada’s cultural genocide of Indigenous Peoples’ CBC News
☐ ‘How to Talk about Indigenous people’ CBC News
☐ ‘Six Misconceptions about Native American People| Teen Vogue’ Teen Vogue
☐ ‘The word Indigenous- explained’ CBC Kids News
☐ ‘What non-Indigenous Canadians need to know’ TVO Docs
Podcasts
Films & TV Shows
☐ The Angry Inuk (Alethea Arnaquq-Baril)
☐ The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-Maija Tailfeathers)
☐ There’s something in the Water (Elliot Page and Ian Daniel)
☐ Mohawk Girls (CBC Gem)
☐ Kuessipan (Myriam Verreault)
☐ Indian Horse (Stepehn Campanelli)
Books
*Contact Huron County Public Library for more information.
☐ When We Were Alone by David Robertson
☐ The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson
☐ The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
☐ Seven Fallen Fathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
☐ Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak Fenton
☐ A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliot
☐ 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
☐ Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk
☐ They Called me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars
☐ Skyscrapers hide the heavens by J.R Miller
☐ When I was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
☐ Canadian’s First Nations by Olive Dickason
☐ Tecumseh’s bones by Guy St-Denis
☐ The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
☐ Peace and Good Oder: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada by Harold R. Johnson
☐ Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools: The Devastating Impact on Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Findings and Call for Action by Melanie Florence
☐ Serving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal by Myra Tait
☐ Fighting for a Hand to Hold: confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada by Samir Shaheen-Hussain
☐ Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows
☐ From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010 by Tomson Highway
☐ First Nations, First Thoughts: The Impact of Indigenous Thoughts in Canada by Annis May Timpson
☐ Indigenous Poetics in Canada by Neal Mcleod
☐ Decolonizing Intersectionality: Racialized Injustice, Sexism and Indigenous Peoples in Canada by Martin Cannon
☐ Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada by Gina Starblanket
☐ Identity Captured by Law: Membership in Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and Linguistic Minorities by Sebastian Grammond
Topic: Immigrants & Newcomers
Articles
☐ Canada broke another record by welcoming 341,000 immigrants in 2019 by Kareem El-Assal
☐ Discrimination Against Skilled Immigrants in the Canadian Labor Market by Philip Oreopoulos
☐ In their words: Canadians’ experiences of racism by Brooklyn Neustaeter
☐ Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy and its implication on Racialized Immigrants by Arghavan Gerami
☐ Prejudice and Discrimination in Canada by Howard Palmer and Leo Driedger
☐ Career Successes and Challenges of Immigrant Professionals in Canada by Charles Chen and Jen Davies
☐ Children of Immigrants and their Challenges by Brian J. D’Souza
☐ Top 10 Problems for Immigrants by George Laczko
☐ Canadian immigrant parents, refugees face greater mental health financial challenges; Kids’ learning at risks, OISE research shows by Lindsey Craig
☐ My Canadian immigrant story: The foreign credentials struggle by BBC Canada
☐ Children of immigrants caught between 2 cultures by John Rieti
☐ Polls show the impact of discrimination on Canadian immigrants amid covid-19 by Institute for Canadian Citizenship
☐ ‘Everything is hard for us’: Newcomers find arrival in Canada complicated by COVID-19 by CBC News
☐ 6 Pre-Arrival tips for newcomers to Canada during COVID-19 by Kelly Dilworth and Munsif Sheraly
☐ New immigrants face special challenges adjusting to life in B.C. amid COVID-19 by Sophie Gray
Online Videos
☐ Welcome to Canada: 150 years of Immigration (Statistics Canada)
☐ ‘Past Tense, Future Imperfect’: My Life as an Immigrant | Nicole Kim (TEDxYouth@SHC)
☐ An Introduction to Canada’s Refugee Determination System (IRB Canada)
☐ The Finished Product-Immigration Realities | Martha Rodriguez Clavell (TEDxTalks)
☐ Canada increases immigration targets to historic levels following COVID-19 Disruptions (Global News)
☐ Canada Immigration Plan 2021-2023- latest News, IRCC Updates, Canada Vlogs, Express Entry (Sahil Sayal)
☐ Canada plans to bring in 1.2 million immigrants in next 3 years (CBC News)
☐ An Immigrant success story: Sukhjit Singh (New Canadians)
Podcasts
☐ Canadian Immigration Podcast (Mark Holthe)
☐ Redirect: Immigration Law and Perspectives (REDIRECT)
☐ International Students in Canada| Canadian Immigration Podcast (Will Tao)
☐ Born and Raised (Huffington Post Canada)
Films & TV Shows
☐ A Journey to Kapessseni: A Refugee’s Gift (Directed by Bill Weaver; Shivon Robinsong)
☐ The Canadian Dream: The Migrant Road to Canada- Enquete (Full Documentary on YouTube)
☐ What does it mean to be Canadian? | Once an Immigrant| CBC DOCS (Full Documentary on YouTube)
☐ Earth to Mouth (Directed by Yung Chang)
☐ 19 Days (Directed by Asha Siad and Roda Siad)
☐ Doctors Without Residency (Directed by Tetchena Bellange)
☐ The Lost Boys of Sudan (Directed by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk)
Books
*Contact Huron County Public Library for more information.
☐ Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
☐ The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
☐ 88 Tips on Immigration to Canada by Al Parsai
☐ American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
☐ We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
☐ The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
☐ The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
☐ Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
☐ The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
☐ The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
☐ Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
☐ The Arrival by Shaun Tan
☐ Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
☐ The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
☐ Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
☐ Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
☐ Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago
☐ The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell you by Dina Nayeri
☐ The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
☐ Confessions of an immigrant’s daughter by Rudolf Otto
☐ The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
☐ How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julie Alvarez
☐ Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
How Can We Help?
Huron County Immigration Partnership is always excited to support newcomers to Huron County. Let us know how we can help!
Find Us
57 Napier Street,
Goderich, ON
N7A 1W2
Canada
Phone
+1 (519) 524-8394 ext.6
