AGH Staff & Volunteer Equity Resources

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For items available through Hamilton Public Library, click “Available through HPL” to access the resource free of charge.

Articles

Topic	Author	Title	Access
Anti-Racism	Rea McNamara	Why Your Museum's BLM Statement Isn't Enough	Free Online Resource
Anti-Racism	Syrus Marcus Ware	Give Us Permanence - Ending Anti-Black Racism in Canada's Art Institutions	Free Online Resource
Anti-Racism	Marsha Lederman	Royal B.C. Museum responds to accusations of racism	Requires Globe & Mail Subscription
Anti-Racist Parenting	Michel Martin	How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race	Free Online Resource
Anti-Racist Parenting	Peggy McIntosh	White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	Free Online Resource
Artist Tokenization	Omayeli Arenyeka	How to think differently about doing good as a creative person	Free Online Resource
Community Partnering	Aboriginal Curatorial Collective	Where we Draw the Line as "Partners"	Free Online Resource
Decolonization	Sumaya Kassim	The museum will not be decolonised	Free Online Resource
Museum Collection	Michelle Caswell	Identifying & Dismantling White Supremacy in Archives	Free Online Resource
Museum Curation	Maura Reilly	What is Curatorial Activism?	Free Online Resource
Museum Curation	Helen Holmes	The Guggenheim's First Black Curator is Denouncing the Museum's Treatment of Her	Free Online Resource
Museum Neutrality	La Tanya S. Autry, Mike Murawski	Museums Are Not Neutral: We Are Stronger Together	Free Online Resource
Museum Neutrality	Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell	Taking a Stand Against Neutrality: The Role of Social Justice in Museums	Free Online Resource
Museum Neutrality	Alina Cohen	How Art Museums Can Remain Relevant in the 21st Century	Free Online Resource
Museum Neutrality	Eunice Olumide	The Art World Remains Overwhelmingly White - Here's How That Can Change	Free Online Resource
Museum Neutrality	Amanda Parris	Canadian Cultural Institutions have silenced Black voices for years. Can we write a new chapter?	Free Online Resource

Books

Topic	Author	Title	Access
Anti-Racism	Desmond Cole	The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power	Available at HPL
Anti-Racism	Ibram X. Kendi	How To Be An Antiracist	Available at HPL
Black and Queer Existence	Rinaldo Walcott	Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies	Available at HPL
Black Trans Woman's Autobiography	Janet Mock	Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More	Available at HPL
Indigenous life in North America	Thomas King	The Inconvenient Indian	Available at HPL
Mass Incarceration	Michelle Alexander	The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness	Available at HPL
Social Justice in Exhibition Curation	Elena Gonzales	Exhibitions for Social Justice	Available in print or as an eBook
Transgender Representation	Samuel Gratton, Jax Cas	Navigating Transgender Representation in Contemporary Lens-based Art	Available as a print zine
White Privilege	Jenna Arnold	Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines	Available in print or as an audio book
White Privilege	Robin Diangelo	White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism	Available at HPL
White Privilege	Ijeoma Oluo	So You Want to Talk About Race	Available at HPL

Film & Television

Topic	Type	Title	Access
Anti-Black Racism	30-minute Documentary	The Skin We're In	Free Online Resource
Black Lives Matter	84-minute Facebook live video	Black August Book Club, hosted by Michele Pearson Clark	Free Online Resource
Indigenous Life in Canada	79-minute NFB Documentary	Birth of a Family	Free Online Resource
Indigenous Life in Canada	98-minute NFB Documentary	nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up	Free Online Resource
Indigenous Life in Canada	84-minute NFB Documentary	Trick or Treaty?	Free Online Resource
Indigenous Life in Canada	163-minute NFB Documentary	We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice	Free Online Resource
Oka Crisis	119-minute NFB Documentary	Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance	Free Online Resource
Unconscious Bias	17-minute TED Talk	How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias	Free Online Resource

Social Media

Topic	Platform	Title
Indigenous Curators	Instagram	Aboriginal Curatorial Collective
Racial diversity in Canadian museums	Instagram	Museum Professionals of Colour
Museum Neutrality	Instagram	Change The Museum
Trans-masc perspective and fat liberation	Twitter	Kivan Bay
Canadian Black liberation readings	Twitter	#BlackLivesCDNSyllabus

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From the International Art Collection

Croquet c.1878

James Tissot (French 1836-1902)

oil on canvas, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Basil Bowman in memory of their daughter, Suzanne, 1965

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