Books on Racism & Anti-racism in Canada

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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America 4.24 avg rating — 17,335 ratings
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Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada
Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada 3.97 avg rating — 445 ratings
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The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power 4.44 avg rating — 10,168 ratings
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The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal 3.80 avg rating — 650 ratings
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Invisible North: The Search For Answers on a Troubled Reserve
Invisible North: The Search For Answers on a Troubled Reserve 4.12 avg rating — 320 ratings
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground 4.41 avg rating — 10,256 ratings
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The Courage of a Nation: Healing from Intergenerational Trauma, Addiction and Multiple Loss
The Courage of a Nation: Healing from Intergenerational Trauma, Addiction and Multiple Loss 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Wacky, Rocky World: Just a Teeny Little Voice
A Wacky, Rocky World: Just a Teeny Little Voice it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru -- An Illustrated History
Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru -- An Illustrated History 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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This Place: 150 Years Retold
This Place: 150 Years Retold 4.36 avg rating — 4,076 ratings
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Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present 4.56 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental
Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer
Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer 4.30 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Deadly Fever: Racism, Disease and a Media Panic (Fernwood Basics Series)
Deadly Fever: Racism, Disease and a Media Panic (Fernwood Basics Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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National Dreams: Myth, Memory, and Canadian History
National Dreams: Myth, Memory, and Canadian History 3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings
15.
Continuous Journey: A Social History of South Asians in Canada
Continuous Journey: A Social History of South Asians in Canada 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City 4.52 avg rating — 14,024 ratings
17.
Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid
Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid 4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought
Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Inclusive Equality: The Relational Dimensions of Systemic Discrimination in Canada
Inclusive Equality: The Relational Dimensions of Systemic Discrimination in Canada liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Racism and Anti-Racism in Canada
Racism and Anti-Racism in Canada 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Looking White People in the Eye
Looking White People in the Eye 4.60 avg rating — 40 ratings
23.
Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks
Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks 4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings
24.
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life 4.30 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society
Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society 4.52 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada 4.37 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Any Known Blood
Any Known Blood 3.87 avg rating — 3,898 ratings
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Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Gender
Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Gender 4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Returning the Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics
Returning the Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada
Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada 4.46 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Of Silk Saris & Mini-Skirts South Asian
Of Silk Saris & Mini-Skirts South Asian 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
32.
Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics
Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59 ratings
33.
Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging 4.10 avg rating — 737 ratings
33.
Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism
Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism 4.17 avg rating — 58 ratings
35.
I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter
I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter 4.24 avg rating — 2,216 ratings
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Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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First Nations 101
First Nations 101 3.91 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist Interventions, 6)
Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist Interventions, 6) 4.51 avg rating — 517 ratings
39.
They Called Me Number One
They Called Me Number One 4.20 avg rating — 3,035 ratings
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The History of Immigration and Racism in Canada: Essential Readings
The History of Immigration and Racism in Canada: Essential Readings really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Incorrigible
Incorrigible 3.74 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Deemed Unsuitable: Blacks from Oklahoma Move to the Canadian Prairies in Search of Equality in the Early 20th Century Only to Find Racism in their New Home
Deemed Unsuitable: Blacks from Oklahoma Move to the Canadian Prairies in Search of Equality in the Early 20th Century Only to Find Racism in their New Home 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945 (Canadian Social History Series)
Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945 (Canadian Social History Series) 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 3.98 avg rating — 66 ratings
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First Voices: An Aboriginal Women's Reader
First Voices: An Aboriginal Women's Reader 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada
Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
47.
Omar Khadr, Oh Canada
Omar Khadr, Oh Canada 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
48.
Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900
Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology
Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody 4.48 avg rating — 27 ratings
51.
In Search of April Raintree
In Search of April Raintree 4.02 avg rating — 5,432 ratings
52.
Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada
Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
53.
Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada
Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958
Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Colour of Justice: Policing Race in Canada
The Colour of Justice: Policing Race in Canada 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Bread Out Of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming and Politics
Bread Out Of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming and Politics 4.38 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Locating Law, 3rd Edition: “Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality Connections
Locating Law, 3rd Edition: “Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality Connections 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America 4.40 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women
An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women 4.38 avg rating — 37 ratings
61.
Half-Breed
Half-Breed 4.24 avg rating — 2,948 ratings
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I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism 4.33 avg rating — 691 ratings
63.
The Right to Be Cold
The Right to Be Cold 3.62 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America 4.46 avg rating — 356 ratings
65.
Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival
Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival 4.44 avg rating — 120 ratings
66.
Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada
Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada 4.60 avg rating — 1,367 ratings
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Life Among the Qallunaat (First Voices, First Texts, 3)
Life Among the Qallunaat (First Voices, First Texts, 3) 4.14 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story
Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story 4.17 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police
Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
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All Names Spoken
All Names Spoken 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder
Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Ruth Cuthand: Back Talk, Works 1983 - 2009
Ruth Cuthand: Back Talk, Works 1983 - 2009 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Silenced: Caribbean Domestic Workers Talk With Makeda Silvera
Silenced: Caribbean Domestic Workers Talk With Makeda Silvera 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings