African-Canadian & Racialized People
CFS GE is committed to embedding Race Equity Practices, developed by the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies One Vision One project, into our daily operational practices. You can read them here: OVOV – Race Equity Poster & Practices.
Helpful Resources and Supports:
- ONE VISION ONE VOICE: Changing the Ontario Child Welfare System to Better Serve African Canadians – http://www.oacas.org/what-we-do/onevisiononevoice/
- Unite Against Hate! is a social-profit organization providing anti-racist education resources and support to Brantford & surrounding areas – https://www.uniteagainsthate.ca/
Community Contacts:
- Imagine Brantford – https://m.facebook.com/imaginebrantford/
- Brantford Carribbean Association – https://m.facebook.com/brantfordcaribbean/
- Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG) – https://www.lspirg.org/
- OACAS One Vision One Voice – Keishia Facey, Project Manager of Phase III – onevisiononevoice@oacas.org
Learning Materials for Adults
Again, the road to equity begins with conversations and continual learning. History has primarily been documented from a white male lens. Below you will find information – provided from different lens and perspectives – that can help lead to a better understanding of how and why there is a disconnect that continues to promulgate inequities today. * = Canadian content
- * Ontario Black History Society – https://blackhistorysociety.ca/
- * Small Squared – Forgetting to celebrate our diversity
- * Grand River Branch United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada – “Remembering African-American Canadian Settlement in Brantford” – http://www.grandriveruel.ca/Newsletter_Reprints/99v11n1African_Canadian.htm
Biographies and Personal Narratives:
- * Alexander, Lincoln. Go To School, You’re a Little Black Boy
- Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time
- Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son
- * Brand, Dionne. Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics
- Coates, T. Between the World and Me
- Jenkins, Morgan, This Will be My Undoing
- Keys, Alicia. More Myself: A journey
- Mailhot, Therese Marie, Heart Berries
- Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom
- Obama, Barack. Dreams From My Father: A story of race and inheritance
- Obama, Michelle. Becoming
- Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African childhood
- Wright, Richard. Black Boy
- Wright, Richard. Notes of a Native Son
Letters from Black Canadians (a series in *Macleans, June 2020) – https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-weight-of-change-should-not-rest-on-the-shoulders-of-black-people/
- Desmond Cole
- Andray Domise
- Esi Edugyan
- Lawrence Hill
- Sandy Hudson
- Eternity Martis
- Rinaldo Walcott
- Ian Williams