Chapter 8 Recommended resources

Ethnic and Racialized Groups

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

https://nctr.ca/map.php

Coming out of the Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is an extensive source and repository for information related to the Comission.

Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=20242

Professor of Law Osagie K. Obasogie’s Blinded by Sight is an academic analysis of what race means to people who have been blind since birth - and what this tells us about understandings of race more generally.

Indigenous Canada

https://www.ualberta.ca/admissions-programs/online-courses/indigenous-canada/index.html

This is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) whereby people can learn about the contemporary and historical circumstances of Indigenous people, from an Indigenous perspective.

Dawnland

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/dawnland/

In a parallel to Canada’s history of residential schools, this film is about the removal, of Indigenous Wabanaki children in the US, from their families.

Broadband Bruce: Fighting Canada’s Digital Divide

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/witness/2017/6/17/broadband-bruce-fighting-canadas-digital-divide

This documentary tells the story of Bruce Buffalo, a young man working to provide high-speed internet to Maskwacis, an underserved community.

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