Racism and COVID-19 Resources curated by CAMH Library

This list contains CAMH librarian-curated information on the intersection of racism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources include community leader statements, reports, bulletins, news items, podcasts, reading lists, webinars, and more.

• Statement from Black Health Leaders on COVID-19’s impact on Black Communities in Ontario Alliance for Healthier Communities, April 2 2020 https://www.allianceon.org/new...-Communities-Ontario
• Stigma, discrimination, health impacts and COVID-19 Vivian Chau and Lawrence Loh, National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health blog, March 16 2020 http://nccdh.ca/blog/entry/sti...impacts-and-covid-19

• Letter to Premier Ford, Deputy Premier Elliott and Dr. Williams regarding the need to collect and use socio-demographic and race-based data Alliance for Healthier Communities, April 10 2020 https://www.allianceon.org/new...ollect-and-use-socio

• Black Health Alliance’s COVID-19 Bulletin Black Health Alliance, 2020 http://blackhealthalliance.ca/covid-19/

• Systemic Inequities Increase Covid-19 Risk for Indigenous People in Canada Human Rights Watch Dispatches, June 9 2020 https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/...genous-people-canada

• Karan, A., & Katz, I. (2020). There is no stopping covid-19 without stopping racism.BMJ, 369. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2244
• Let’s Talk: Racism and Health Equity (Rev. ed.). National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University, 2018. http://nccdh.ca/images/uploads...Health-Equity-EN.pdf
• The Rise of Anti-Asian Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, April 2020 http://www.etfo.ca/AboutETFO/P...Anti-AsianRacism.pdf

• Millett, G. A., Jones, A. T., Benkeser, D., Baral, S., Mercer, L., Beyrer, C., ... & Sherwood, J. (2020). Assessing differential impacts of COVID-19 on Black communities. Annals of Epidemiology. In press, pre-proof. https://www.sciencedirect.com/...ii/S1047279720301769
• Poteat, T., Millett, G., Nelson, L. E., & Beyrer, C. (2020). Understanding COVID-19 Risks and Vulnerabilities among Black Communities in America: The Lethal Force of Syndemics. Annals of Epidemiology. 47, 1-3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/...720301770?via%3Dihub
• Ten Equity Implications of the Coronavirus COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States NAACP, updated April 3 2020 https://naacp.org/wp-content/u...y-Considerations.pdf
• COVID-19: Addressing Discrimination and Racism Equity Subcommittee: Local Health Department Support Guidance. Working Document. Public Health Alliance of Southern California, March 9 2020 http://www.bmsg.org/wp-content...crimination_lhds.pdf

News/Popular Media

• Is the racial divide of COVID-19 victims in the US repeating in Ontario? Metro Morning, CBC, April 20 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live...repeating-in-ontario
• The Pandemic Of Black Trauma Will Never End, Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, May 29 2020 https://www.refinery29.com/en-...andemic-black-trauma
• The Coronavirus Has a Disparate Impact on Black Grief, Too, Fernanda Echavarri, Mother Jones, May 29 2020 https://www.motherjones.com/co...-on-black-grief-too/
• The unbearable grief of Black mothers: Between Covid-19 and police brutality, the burden of grief is yet another risk to Black mothers’ health. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, Vox, May 28 2020 https://www.vox.com/first-pers...ief-sadness-covid-19
• Canada's COVID-19 blind spots of race, immigration and labour, Aimée-Angélique Bouka and Yolande Bouka, Policy Options, May 19 2020 https://policyoptions.irpp.org...igration-and-labour/
• Why COVID-19 Is Even More Dangerous For Black Women, Eternity Martis, Refinery29, May 19 2020 https://www.refinery29.com/en-...n-canada-coronavirus
• Ask Code Switch: The Coronavirus Edition, Code Switch podcast, NPR, May 13 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/05/12...-coronavirus-edition
• The Other Problematic Outbreak: As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, so too does racism. Yasmeen Serhan and Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, March 13 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/in...hobia-racism/607816/
• When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus, Code Switch podcast, NPR, March 4 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/02...spreads-like-a-virus

To learn more about racism in Canada:

Anti-Black Racism Reading List

• University of Toronto Libraries https://onesearch.library.utor...-racism-reading-list

Anti-Racism Films

• National Film Board of Canada https://www.nfb.ca/playlist/anti-racism-films/
• Anti-Aboriginal Racism in Canada: A Social Determinant of Health (webinar), National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/playli...2Ksd2gXYbaoIAibZuj7M

Learning about Racism (online course)

• Canadian Race Relations Foundation https://www.crrf-fcrr.ca/en/ca...earning-about-racism
• Call it out: racism, racial discrimination and human rights (interactive module), Ontario Human Rights Commission http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/learn...learning/call-it-out