Voices

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A selection of leaders, educators, activists and journalists to follow and learn from.

Grand Chief Constant Awashish
f: https://www.facebook.com/constantawashish/

Marie Battiste
Academic Director, Aboriginal Education Research Centre, University of Saskatchewan
Research: decolonizing and indigenizing the academy
t: @imperialbuster

Cindy Blackstock
Executive Director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
Professor, School of Social Work, McGill University
t: @cblackst

Ibram X. Kendi
Author of How to Be Antiracist
Executive Director, The Antiracist Research and Policy Center
t: @DrIbram
ig: @ibramxk

Shay-Akil McLean
Research: decolonizing science and exploring the sociology of race/racism
t: @Hood_biologist
ig: @hood_biologist

Javeed Sukhera
Research: approaches to stigma reduction & implicit bias recognition and management in health professions
Chair of Psychiatry, Institute of Living
Chief of Psychiatry, Hartford Hospital
t: @Javeedsukhera
ig: @drsukhera

Dorothy Roberts
Author of Fatal Invention: How Science Politics and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century and Killing the Black Body
Acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law
Director, Program on Race, Science & Society, UPenn
t: @DorothyERoberts

Read

Maria Trent, Danielle G. Dooley, Jacqueline Dougé. (2019). The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health (Vol 144, Issue 2).American Academy of Pediatrics.

Listen

1619
NYT podcast, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, on the long history of slavery in America.

Code Switch
NPR’s podcast on race, culture and ethnicity, hosted by Shereen Marisol Meraji & Gene Denbyn.

Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls
A Collection of podcast episodes, recordings and radio episodes on the history of MMIWG in Canada.

Seeing White
A podcast on whiteness in America, hosted by John Biewen and Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika

Watch

Unseen: Ranjit’s Story
Hearing Our Voices: De-centering Whiteness in Health Care

Celebrating the contributions of Black nurses to healthcare

This project included a physical display, a virtual “walk through” of the display and an online flipbook. A video of the walk-through and flipbook are available through the online library, linked below.

Wytenbroek, L., De Sousa, I., Hussein, T., Nguyen, K., Chiao, A. T.-H., Moeller, B., & Moffatt, M. (2022, February 28). Black History Month 2022 : Celebrating the contributions of Black nurses to healthcare [O]. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0421283

UBC Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry | 2022 Black History Month
Black History Month Flipbook | Open Library Media

Black (in)Visibility: Black Nurses in Canada who Paved the Way

In recognition of Black History month, the Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry at the UBC-V School of Nursing hosted an online nursing history panel on February 25, 2021. Materials include a recording of the panel, which recognizes the significant historical contributions of Black nurses to health care in British Columbia and Canada.

Flynn, K., De Sousa, I., Dordunoo, D., & Wytenbroek, L. (2021, February 25). Black (in)Visibility : Black Nurses in Canada who Paved the Way. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0398203

UBC Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry | 2021 Black History Month
Open Library Materials

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