Research Guides: Anti-Racism Reading List: Magazine and Journal Articles

Race and Justice (Sage Journal)

Race and Justice: An International Journal serves as a quarterly forum for the best scholarship on race, ethnicity, and justice. The journal seeks to engage and promote progressive means of thinking by publishing articles from diverse, inclusive, and intersectional perspectives, theories, methodologies, and ways of knowing.
Click here or below to see the latest articles.

Magazine Articles

Inside Canada's Growing Islamophobia Problem, Chatelaine
more...less...
Chowdhury, R. (2023, Fall). Inside Canada's Growing Islamophobia Problem. Chatelaine, 96, 42-47. https://login.gbcprx01.georgebrown.ca/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/magazines/inside-canadas-growing-islamophobia-problem/docview/2850260316/se-2
Bahadur, G. (2020). The Grammar of Oppression. New Republic, 251(12), 60–64.
Cole, D. (2015, May). The skin I'm in. Toronto Life, 49(5), 38+.
Crenshaw, K. W. (2020). Naming the Threat. New Republic, 251(1/2), 10–11.
Steinmetz, K. (2020). Q+A: Kimberlé Crenshaw. TIME Magazine, 195(7/8), 82.
Subramanian, S. (2020). Being Black in Canada. Maclean’s, 133(2), 87–89.

Academic Journal Articles

Hollinger, M. S. (2024). New Challenges, Old Hatred: The Role of Super-diversity, Immigration, and Political Polarization in the Rise of Antisemitism in Contemporary Canada. Women in Judaism, 20(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.33137/wij.v20i1.43967
This paper examines the rise of antisemitism in contemporary Canada and explores some emerging social trends that may exacerbate and enable it. Specifically, the rise and maintenance of antisemitism in Canada may be, in part, due to the multifaceted diversification of the West known as super-diversity, as well as increasing political polarization.
Williams, M. T., Khanna Roy, A., MacIntyre, M. P., & Faber, S. (2022). The Traumatizing Impact of Racism in Canadians of Colour. Current trauma reports, 8(2), 17–34.
Racial trauma, often overlooked in Canadian society, results from singular or cumulative racist experiences that cause stress and mental health issues. As Canada's BIPOC population grows, it's crucial to recognize racial discrimination and its traumatic effects, including those from microaggressions, on racialized Canadians.
Saleh, N., Clark, N., Bruce, A., & Moosa-Mitha, M. (2023). Using Narrative Inquiry to Understand Anti-Muslim Racism in Canadian Nursing. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 55(3), 292–304. https://doi.org/10.1177/08445621221129689
Islamophobia, particularly targeting hijab-wearing Muslim women, is increasing globally, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study explores anti-Muslim racism in Canadian nursing through the experiences of hijab-wearing nurses, aiming to present their counter-narrative and challenge existing prejudices.
Fresnoza, E. P., Balcombe, D., & Choo, L. (2024). Social justice in tourism recovery: examining equity, diversity, and inclusion in Canadian tourism restart policies. Tourism Critiques, 5(2), 154–178. https://doi.org/10.1108/TRC-07-2023-0018
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the incorporation, prioritization and depth of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in tourism industry restart policies of Canadian provinces and territories. This study investigates how the detailing of EDI in policies determine the priority in emancipating tourism workers from the inequities exacerbated during the pandemic.
Fang, L., Lee, E., Chan, K., Al-Raes, M., & Nuesca, E. (2024). “It Goes under the Radar!”: In/Visibility of Anti-Asian Racism from a Canadian Youth Perspective. Youth & Society, 56(7), 1293–1314. https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X231220390
This study examined Asian youth's experiences with anti-Asian racism (AAR) in Canada. Findings revealed AAR's dual nature: subtle but pervasive within White norms, and overt during crises like COVID-19. Youth identified White supremacy as AAR's root and reflected on their racialization, offering resistance to AAR.
Harris, J. C., & Patton, L. D. (2019). Un/Doing Intersectionality through Higher Education Research. Journal of Higher Education, 90(3), 347–372.
Patton, L. D., & Jordan, J. L. (2017). It’s Not about “You,” It’s about “Us”: A Black Woman Administrator’s Efforts to Disrupt White Fragility in an Urban School. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 20(1), 80–91.
Mosley, D. V., Hargons, C. N., Meiller, C., Angyal, B., Wheeler, P., Davis, C., & Stevens-Watkins, D. (2020). Critical consciousness of anti-Black racism: A practical model to prevent and resist racial trauma. Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Sawyer, J., & Gampa, A. (2018). Implicit and Explicit Racial Attitudes Changed During Black Lives Matter. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(7), 1039–1059.
Anderson, R. E., McKenny, M. C., & Stevenson, H. C. (2019). EMBRace: Developing a Racial Socialization Intervention to Reduce Racial Stress and Enhance Racial Coping among Black Parents and Adolescents. Family Process, 58(1), 53.
Darling-Hammond, L. (2017). Teaching for Social Justice: Resources, Relationships, and Anti-Racist Practice. Multicultural Perspectives, 19(3), 133–138.
Logan, J. R., & Oakley, D. (2017). Black lives and policing: The larger context of ghettoization. Journal of Urban Affairs, 39(8), 1031.
Dukes, K. N., Kahn, K. B., Nadal, K. L., Davidoff, K. C., Allicock, N., Serpe, C. R., & Erazo, T. (2017). Perceptions of Police, Racial Profiling, and Psychological Outcomes: A Mixed Methodological Study. Journal of Social Issues, 4, 808.
McCallum, M. J. L., & Boyer, Y. (2018). Undertreatment, Overtreatment, and Coerced into Treatment: Identifying and Documenting Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care in Canada. Aboriginal Policy Studies, 7(1), 190.
Davis, D. (2019). Fanon, Violence, Racism and Embodiment: Making raced bodies and practising a new dialogue of raced bodies in situation? Social Alternatives, 38(4), 5–15.