Anti-racism resources

Tim Wise on white privilege: racism, white denial & the costs of inequality by featuring Tim Wise ; produced and edited by Sut Jhally. "For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color, but to white people as well. This is an invaluable classroom resource: an ideal introduction to the social construction of racial identities, and a critical new tool for exploring the often invoked - but seldom explained - concept of white privilege."

White like me : race, racism & white privilege in America by Media Education Foundation Production "White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today."

Sustaining difficult conversations on racism, identity and our mutual humanity by SAGE Publications Ltd, "Dr. Linda Lausell Bryant, PhD, discusses the importance of social workers' ability to prepare for and sustain a difficult conversation."

Anatomy of prejudice: Jane Elliott's seminar on race by Jane Elliott's Seminar on Race / Carlton International Media Limited. "She may be an overzealous crusader. She may be on a power trip. Then again, maybe Jane Elliott has pioneered a truly honest and viable way to talk about racial prejudice-a way in which white people and people of color can explore the subject together. This program documents one of Elliott's diversity training seminars, modeled on an experiment she first conducted as a third-grade teacher in 1968. In the film, British citizens of varied racial and cultural backgrounds are separated into brown-eyed "superiors" and blue-eyed "inferiors." Before the day is over, a handful will have stormed out and the remaining group will face painful truths and equally painful opinions about race in the 21st century."

Fighting racism and discrimination by CBC Curio collection "This collection looks at the fight against discrimination and racism in Canada. It includes examples of ongoing efforts across the country to remove barriers to equity, diversity and inclusion and to reduce inequities in all sectors of society."--Curio

Anti-racism films - NFB collection by NFB

The science of racism by producer & director Patricia Bebia Mawa. "This video explores the ways in which our brain compartmentalizes, classifies and subconsciously discriminates in order to make sense of the world around us."--Curio.ca.

The hate u give / Criterion on Demand Collection by 20th Century Fox Film Corp "Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right."

A class divided by Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). "After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., an elementary school teacher in a small Iowa town decided to introduce ideas about racism and discrimination to her all-white class. This classic Frontline episode recounts Jane Elliott's bold experiment and its provocative approach-awarding special privileges to her blue-eyed students while discriminating against those whose eyes were brown. The program tracks down Mrs. Elliott's former third-graders to learn what effect those early lessons about ignorance and injustice had on their lives."

Accidental courtesy : Daryl Davis, race & America by directed by Matt Ornstein. Musician Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan - something few black men can say. In his travels, he's collected robes and other artifacts from friends affiliated with the Klan, building a collection piece by piece, story by story, and person by person in hopes of eventually opening a "Museum of the Klan", a testimony to what knowledge and respectful, personal communication can accomplish. In ACCIDENTAL COURTESY, Daryl's journey takes him to across the country, from old friends who have left the Klan, to friends still active in the organization, including a current Imperial Wizard of the KKK."--kanopy.com.

Colour blind by director, Jinder Oujla-Chalmers. "Troubles began at Princess Margaret Senior Secondary school, in Surrey, B.C., when changes in the student population resulted in a shift of predominance from a white to an ethnic student body. It became a school full of racial rage, segregation and violence. The film follows 5 teenagers, as they learn tolerance for each other's differences and overcome racial conflicts."

Black Lives Matter : the disruptors by producer/director, Tamar Weinstein. "It grew in just a couple of years from a hashtag to a powerful movement that has taken on police shootings of Black people and is defiantly challenging the political establishment. Black Lives Matter (BLM) now has over 40 chapters in the United States and Canada. The Fifth Estate takes you inside the movement with the people who helped build it. Janaya Khan, the Toronto activist who has become its international ambassador, and Khan's partner Patrisse Cullors - the co-founder of BLM - share their history and insights into the movement as it faces its toughest test in the face of a new Trump administration. Former members of the Black Panther Party also reflect on how they see today's movement in light of their battles in the 1960s."--curio.ca.

I am not your negro by written by James Baldwin ; directed by Raoul Peck. DVD "Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter."

The skin we're in by director, Charles Officer. "Urgent, controversial and undeniably honest, The Skin We're In is a wake-up call to complacent Canadians. Racism is here. It is everywhere. It is us and we are it. Following celebrated journalist Desmond Cole as he researches his hotly anticipated book, this documentary from acclaimed director Charles Officer pulls back the curtain on racism in Canada."--Curio.ca.

Ninth floor by written and directed by Mina Shum. "It started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams Riot - a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation's history. Making a compassionate and audacious foray into non-fiction, writer and director Mina Shum locates the protagonists in clandestine locations throughout Trinidad and Montreal, the wintry city where it all went down. In a cinematic gesture of reckoning and redemption, she listens as they set the record straight - and lay their burden down. Can we make peace with the past? What lessons have we learned? What really happened up there on the 9th floor?"--NFB website.