Module 1: Power and Privilege
TEDX Lincoln Square – Unconscious Bias: Stereotypical Hiring Practices
This TED talk highlights unconscious bias in the hiring and recruitment industry, exemplifying how unconscious bias exists in every sphere.
Unconscious Bias and Fair Assessment
This presentation by Prof. Maydianne Andrade at University of Toronto Scarborough speaks to unconscious bias and challenges to Fair Assessment. Andrade speaks to Institutional, Racial and Gender Unconscious Bias through use of case studies.
White Supremacy in Global Health
Reflection by nonprofit leader Anu Kumar on privilege and power in shaping white supremacy and its link to Global Health.
Module 2: Gender and Race
Bailey et al “AI technologies — like po…olour” The Conversation, 24 August 2020
Facial recognition technology that is trained on and tuned to Caucasian faces systematically misidentifies and mislabels racialized individuals: numerous studies report that facial recognition technology is “flawed and biased, with significantly higher error rates when used against people of colour.”
“Gender-Lens Philanthropy: A practical …pic Foundations Canada, September 2019
The report discusses how companies, non-profit organizations and other programs utilize a gender-Lens Approach to their research, funding, and grant-making.
Shaun R. Harper, “Race without Racism:…s Minimize Racist Institutional Norms” (2012)
The purpose of this article is to show how researchers explain, discuss, and theorize about racial differences in student achievement, faculty and staff turnover, and other outcomes that are routinely disaggregated in the study of higher education. How do higher education scholars discuss and make sense of race-related findings that emerge in their studies?
Navigating Difficult Conversations Module, Queen’s University
This interactive module helps you to think about situations where you should consider the implications of harmful behavior, such as microaggressions. It specifically focusses on teaching and learning contexts.
Module 3: Decolonizing Research
“More than Words” Western’s Indigenous land Acknowledgments
Indigenous Canada Open Online Course, University of Alberta
“Indigenous Canada is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.”
Eve Tuck: I Do Not Want To Haunt You Bu…orizing on Reluctant Theories of Change
“If we are meant to think of the provocation of building social relations over property relations as an opportunity to think through how we might change not only institutions (and by proxy, the systems which bring them into being) but also the ways in which we relate to each other and ourselves, then we must begin with defining what we might mean by “change,” as Eve Tuck does here, through a beautifully speculative and poetic voice.”
Kim TallBear, Bioarchaeology, DNA, and Indigeneity (21:19)
FAQ on Indigenous Research
“This FAQ is based on questions we, as Indigenous researchers, advisors and administrators, often hear or wish researchers knew more about. When using this guide, keep in mind that “Indigenous groups” and “Indigenous peoples” are terms that cover immense diversity and answers to these questions will be different for each nation, government, governing body and group. In short, this FAQ is not the definitive answer to these questions so much as a guide that can help researchers start the journey to answering them. These questions should always be answered by the specific places, groups and/or governing bodies you wish to work with. There is no universal answer.”
Lessons for Collaboration Involving Tra…ronmental Governance in Ontario, Canada
Abstract: “Efforts to incorporate Aboriginal traditional knowledge (TK) into environmental governance regimes in Ontario continue to evolve in urgency, scope and complexity. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous parties have an interest in seeing such undertakings succeed, and yet errors in implementation continue to derail initiatives on a far too frequent basis. A brief look at the impetus behind current initiatives is provided, followed by highlights of some of the reasons why Aboriginal groups remain cautious in their interactions with outside agencies wishing to utilize and potentially exploit their knowledge. As well, reasons are offered as to why Indigenous peoples continue to see the sharing of TK as necessary in the move towards achieving global sustainability. Finally, lessons from two Ontario examples of attempts at government–First Nation collaboration are presented. Key among these is the finding that early, ongoing and mutually beneficial relationship-building between involved parties is essential to project success.”
USAI Research Framework
“The USAI Research Framework was conceived and developed by the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC) to guide all Indigenous research projects conducted by the OFIFC and urban Indigenous communities, in which the OFIFC is involved.”
Fish and Indigenous Law | Zoe Todd | Walrus Talks (6:06)
“From the Walrus Talks National Tour: We Desire a Better Country. Recorded March 6th, 2017 at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre in Yellowknife. Zoe Todd (Red River Metis) is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She is from Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) in the Treaty Six area. She writes about art, architecture, Indigenous legal orders, fish philosophy, and decolonization. She also studies human animal relations, colonialism, and environmental change in northern and western Canada. Her art engages human responsibilities to fish as kin. Todd was a 2011 Trudeau Scholar.”
Indigenous historical thinking
“Shekon Neechie provides a venue for Indigenous historians to gather as an e-community and share their ideas or works in progress. “Historian” in this case is broadly defined as a person who researches and presents Indigenous histories in essays, stories, photographs, videos, podcasts, or through other means and whose work is based in oral history and traditions, archival research, archaeology, and material interpretation. The historians featured here are formally trained – either within the academy or in the community – or self-taught.”
Research as Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods – Shawn Wilson
An Indigenous Feminist’s take on the On…another word for colonialism – Zoe Todd