Racism for Reel - Media for Change

[ Categories: British Columbia : Canada : Anti-racism : Film/Video : Websites  ]

Equipped with cameras, a diverse group of BC youth set out to expose the realities of internalized and systemic racism and find ways to help dismantle and overcome it. Featuring vignettes both comical and disturbing, Racism for Reel is a fast-paced and candid examination of racial biases expressed through the media and in everyday life.

This video is produced by the Access to Media Education Society's Peer Perspective Program, and is available for viewing online, or copies can be ordered.

WATCH THE VIDEO

Classroom facilitations are also available with this program and feature thought provoking discussion around the issues raised in the video. In addition, the group has developed learning resource packages for teachers.

LEARNING PACKAGE SAMPLE (pdf format, approx 300K)

Peers Recognizing and Resisting Discrimination

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Anti-racism : Film/Video : Learning Resource Guides  ]

Peers Recognizing and Resisting Discrimination; preventing and intervening in
verbal and physical racial violence.

This is a down-to-earth workshop about real issues that affect the participants. The objective is " to empower us to recognize and resist verbal and physical violence, and specifically racial violence."

Download the lesson plan here and the "PowerFlower" attachment (both in pdf format)

All were created by Gabrielle Martin for the AMES Peer Perspective program.

A Closer Look; Understanding the systemic racism of Canadian history and current policies.

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Anti-racism : Learning Resource Guides : Websites  ]

A down-to-earth lesson plan for teachers and facilitators about real issues that affect the participants.
The objective of the workshop is to "learn more about the parts of Canada's history that are withheld from our mainstream society, so that we can begin to understand the experiences of people of colour within our communities."

Download the pdf "A Closer Look" , and its associated lesson plans and information (all pdf):
"Historical Timeline of Racism in Canada",
"Chinese Canadian History" : Excerpts from Last Steps to Freedom by John Boyko,
"Native Canadian History" : Excerpts from Last Steps to Freedom by John Boyko,
"Immigration Scenarios", and
Immigration to Canada Form (summarised from Citizen and Immigration Canada website

All were created by Gabriel Martin for AMES' Peer Perspectives program.

Diversity Learning

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : British Columbia : Canada : Vancouver : Anti-homophobia : Anti-racism : Books : Film/Video : Learning Resource Guides : Websites  ]

Designed for and by teachers, this website has links to hundreds of resources, lesson plans and learning activities on eliminating racism and promoting diversity that have been catalogued by subject/curricula and grade level. These lessons and activities cover a variety of topics, including multiculturalism, human rights, gender equity, global awareness and many other related issues.

A Scattering of Seeds - The Creation of Canada

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Film/Video : Learning Resource Guides : Websites  ]

A Scattering of Seeds - The Creation of Canada is a series of 52 documentary films exploring the dreams, daring and determination of Canada's first immigrants. It is a journey into the hopes and triumphs of those who built a nation, interpreted by Canada's best independent documentary filmmakers.

The website includes descriptions of each episode, relevant articles, teacher resources, forums and related links.

Open Hearts – Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project

[ Categories: Anti-racism  ]

"Following World War II, a group of young Jewish orphans immigrated to Canada from the devastation of Europe. Open Hearts – Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project is an online teaching exhibit that chronicles the lives of these orphans as they emerged from the events of the Holocaust into displaced person camps and eventually to new lives in Canda. This multi-media website uses the orphans' own words and artefacts as well as primary documents and photographs to provide students with a powerful learning experience about the Holocaust and the broader history of Canadian immigration during the 20th Century.

The site provides extensive support for students & teachers in middle & secondary school, social studies and language arts classrooms. The teacher's guide, web links, maps, biblio-videographies and pop-up glossary terms can be browsed online or downloaded as printable classroom materials. The bilingual site offers French teachers a valuable new resource for Holocaust Education."

(taken from the site)

Amnesty International Canada

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Organizations : Websites  ]

Amnesty International Canada is an excellent resource for current news and actions surrounding human rights issues. The section on Canada would provide interesting talking points in classrooms. There is Amnesty Youth which includes ways to take action, and a Resource Centre for teachers.

Hate - Don't Buy In

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Anti-homophobia : Anti-racism : Organizations : Websites  ]

Hate: Don't Buy In is an ongoing project of the Cultural Resources Unit of the Calgary Police Service with some other partners, and offers an interactive web site that includes media clips and reviews, discussion forums, and my own tips on starting an activist group.

"Hate: Don't Buy In is an ongoing project of the Cultural Resources Unit of the Calgary Police Service with some other partners, and offers an interactive web site that includes media clips and reviews, discussion forums, and my own tips on starting an activist group."

Redefine Whitney McNally -- the proliferation of Asian stereotypes in Details magazine

[ Categories: Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Websites  ]

This site is a response to a recent (April 2004) Details magazine article "Gay or Asian" (p.52) written by Whitney McNally:

"Help make the name Whitney McNally synonymous with the continuation and proliferation of Asian stereotypes! Help define what Whitney McNally means!!! Link this website on your websites or blogs. Let's make this the No.1 google search for Details magazine and Whitney McNally! "

"Some Missing Pages" (The Black Community in the History of Québec and Canada)

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Learning Resource Guides : Websites  ]

The Black Community in the History of Québec and Canada. Primary and Secondary Source Materials.
The Québec Board of Black Educators and the Provincial Association of Social Studies Teachers collaborated with the Ministère to "supply some of the "missing pages" in print materials most generally used by students in elementary and secondary schools. Materials that focus upon Blacks in the history of Québec and Canada help learners to understand more fully the social and cultural realities of the past centuries. These pages depict joy and sorrow, struggle and triumph, courage and determination."

Diversity Watch -- Ryerson School Of Journalism

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Other Publications : Websites  ]

Diversity Watch is a website that examines current news coverage of "several ethnocultural and religious communities, and because it offers practical help—background, sources, and story ideas—to assist journalists who want to achieve better coverage of diversity."

It has short background information on many cultural groups and links to more resources, a large glossary and indepth coverage of topical news events.

big boots

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-homophobia : Anti-racism : Other Publications  ]

big boots is a "zine about resistance on paper, about the power of words and art to inspire change, about women and trans people of colour reclaiming our voices and telling our own stories."

Some archived articles are available online.

"Tolerance in Films" (UNESCO)

[ Categories: Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Film/Video  ]

Education International and UNESCO have released a directory of films on tolerance for teachers.

A brief guide accompanies the list online.

Youth Millennium Project

[ Categories: British Columbia : Canada : Vancouver : Anti-racism : Organizations : Other Publications : Websites  ]

YMP is designed to provide youth (aged 10-18years) with the opportunity to build a project for their community of their own design.
The projects are hopeful, positive and inspiring. Register your school or class to receive communications on programmes, curriculum kits, and research in peace education. Join the YMP network today and connect with teachers around the globe.

Project Colourblind -- submit your art or writing!

[ Categories: British Columbia : Canada : Vancouver Lower Mainland : Vancouver : Anti-racism : Other Media : Other Publications : Websites  ]

Project Colourblind is an Anti-Racism Writing/Art Contest organized by the Vancouver School Board District Race Relations Youth Advisory Committee.

"This year, we are proudly presenting a writing/art contest for all students of the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia in hopes of spreading awareness of racial issues and celebrating cultural diversity. The winning entries will be compiled and put together into a scrapbook-type publication titled Colourblind. "

David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education

[ Categories: British Columbia : Canada : Vancouver : Anti-racism : Organizations : Other Media : Websites  ]

The UBC Faculty of Multicultural Education holds presentations free and open to the public. Check their site for up to date listings.

Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education

[ Categories: Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Books  ]

Leslie G. Roman and Linda Eyre, eds. Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education. New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 288.

"This timely collection contributes richly detailed and perceptive analyses of how educational policies and practices have come to be constituted so that questions of effectiveness and efficiency now prevail over “other” concerns, rendering many of the authors and the students to whom they feel accountable are marked as marginal and different. At the same time, many papers offer exemplary illustrations of a range of conceptual strategies and methodologies, useful both for their content and for how their approaches might be modified and applied elsewhere. Most of all, Dangerous Territories raises important and troubling questions for anyone who wishes to practice and promote critical education in contemporary schools and universities."
(from Historical Studies in Education review)

Taking IT Global

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Websites  ]

TakingITGlobal.org is a Canadian-made "global online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally, nationally and globally. Membership is free of charge and allows you to interact with various aspects of the website, to contribute ideas, experiences, and actions."

Of particular interest is their 'understanding' section -- with current news, links to resources and organizations, editorials and artwork.

Pacific Educational Press - anti-racism and multicultural book list for teachers

[ Categories: British Columbia : Canada : Anti-racism : Books  ]

The Pacific Educational Press has a good list of books in their collection that can be ordered online.

Note Many Threads: Weaving a Country (Edited by Wilma Maki)
"This book is a collection of authentic writing for students in grades 5-7 about the wide range of people's experiences as immigrants to Canada. A carefully chosen selection of excerpts and short pieces from a variety of genres-poetry, novels, journals, newspapers-is included. They are arranged thematically so that readers can explore the reasons people have for leaving their original homes, their journeys to a new land, the strange, often exciting, and sometimes unpleasant experiences they have adjusting to a new social milieu, and the impact they have on this milieu. Accounts from both past and present add a historical dimension to the book. The original writing and documents are accompanied by short factual accounts to provide context for readers."

"The KIT" - a manual by youth to combat racism through education

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Learning Resource Guides  ]

This manual was produced in 2002 though the United Nations of Canada and is available online on the Youth Forums Against Racism site.

The KIT is a "bilingual manual containing 61 pages of information, history, resources, and tools for anti-racism education. The manual has been created by youth for youth, but is also useful for educators, parents, community leaders, anti-racism activists, ethnocultural groups, and non-governmental organizations." (description from site)

Parentbooks

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Books  ]

Toronto-based Parentbooks has an excellent selection of anti-racist & multicultural education books for educators and parents.

NFB Film Catalogues On-line

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Film/Video  ]

Search by index through the NFB (National Film Board's) collections of films. 'Cultural diversity and multi-culturalism' , for example, is a good place to start.

Where I Come From

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Books  ]

Vijay Agnew'a newest book, Where I Come From 2003, Canada, 299pp.) is "a reflective memoir of an immigrant professor's life in a Canadian university. It covers the period from 1967, when Canada was opened up to third-world immigrants, to the present. The book illustrates the ways in which identity is socially constructed by tracing some of the labels that were applied to the author at various stages during her thirty years in Canada — “foreign student,” “Indian woman,” “immigrant,” “Indian feminist,” and “third-world woman.”

She shows how each of these names has affected her relationships with other people and contributed to making her the woman she is now perceived to be: a feminist, anti-racist, activist professor. This multilayered story reveals the complex ways in which race, class, and gender intersect in an immigrant woman's life, and engages readers in a conversation that narrows the distance between them, showing not only what is different, but what is shared."

(details from above site)

Equality Today!

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Websites  ]

Equality Today! is an electronic magazine published by Young People's Press (YPP) that deals with issues of multiculturalism and anti-racism and how they affect youth.

CFRO 102.7 Co-op Radio

[ Categories: British Columbia : Canada : Vancouver Lower Mainland : Vancouver : Anti-racism : Other Media  ]

Co-op Radio’s more than 400 volunteer programmers provide programming 24 hours a day in the areas of arts, public affairs, music and in languages other than English. We strive to provide programming that does not discriminate against people on the grounds of sex, race, age, class, ability, sexual orientation or anything else.
Our first priority is to provide a media outlet for the economically, socially or politically disadvantaged. We provide news and perspectives that are not otherwise accessible – information that is not covered by the conventional media or perspectives that challenge mainstream media coverage.

Whiteness and White Privilege in the Media

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Websites  ]

<i>Whiteness and White Privilege in the Media. Media Awareness Network.

These articles "deal with whiteness and white privilege in the media; how white privilege is reinforced and supported by the media; and how the media marginalize the perspectives not only of visible minorities, but also of working-class women and men."

Media Portrayals of Ethnic and Visible Minorities

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Websites  ]

Media Portrayals of Ethnic and Visible Minorities. Media Awareness Network.

These articles explore the ways in which members of ethnic and visible minorities are portrayed in news coverage and entertainment media in Canada and the U.S. It also explores the representation of minority groups behind the scenes, as journalists and media producers. It provides the latest articles and reports on these topics, as well as a snapshot of federal policies aimed at combatting stereotyping and encouraging healthier, more realistic portrayals of ethnic and visible minorities.

Adaptation of Bafa Bafa game

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Other Publications  ]

Hicks, D. Bafa Bafa in Minorities. London: Heinemann Educational, 1981. pp. 82-85.

Adaptations of Bafa Bafa

This is just a simpler version of the Bafa Bafa game. It basically goes along the same premise of the original game, but each group develops their own culture rather than following the outline of the Beta and Alpha cultures.

Bafa Bafa Activity

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Organizations : Other Publications : Websites  ]

In BaFá BaFá participants come to understand the powerful effects that culture plays in every person's life. It may be used to help participants prepare for living and working in another culture or to learn how to work with people from other departments, disciplines, genders, races, and ages. Here are a few of the ways BaFá BaFá has been used in the hundreds of thousands times it has been run around the world:

* Build awareness of how cultural differences can profoundly impact people in an organization.
* Motivate participants to rethink their behavior and attitude toward others.
* Allow participants to examine their own bias and focus on how they perceive differences.
* Examine how stereotypes are developed, barriers created, and misunderstandings magnified.
* Identify diversity issues within the organization that must be addressed.

Racism. Stop it. Govt of Canada website

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Anti-racism : Websites  ]

International day for the elimination of racism, March 21st. Also see “links” for more websites.

Take part in the Racism. Stop It! National Video Competition !

This campaign involves thousands of young Canadians in every province and territory. It requires little or no acting experience but requires one to have fun. It also allows individuals to move beyond the recognition of the problem and take action to Stop It!

Racism. Stop it. Govt of Canada website

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Anti-racism : Websites  ]

International day for the elimination of racism, March 21st. Also see “links” for more websites.

Take part in the Racism. Stop It! National Video Competition !

This campaign involves thousands of young Canadians in every province and territory. It requires little or no acting experience but requires one to have fun. It also allows individuals to move beyond the recognition of the problem and take action to Stop It!

Choose Dignity: A Kit for Fighting Hate

[ Categories: British Columbia : Canada : Vancouver : Anti-racism : Learning Resource Guides  ]

Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice

[ Categories: Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Anti-racism : Learning Resource Guides  ]

Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice

[ Categories: Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Anti-racism : Learning Resource Guides  ]

Spark Initiative at the NFB

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Anti-racism : Film/Video  ]