This is an evergreen project, which means it will evolve over time. General comments or suggestions for improvement are welcome and can be directed, by email to the AAO Web Administrator.
Please visit the Toward Truth and Reconciliation page for a list of resources related to the legacy residential schools, a critical examination of colonialism, and Indigenous issues in Canada and the Indigenous Resources page for a list of online exhibits and archival material related to Indigenous communities in Ontario.
Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindnes.
Maynard, Robyn. (2017). Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.
Botnick, J. (2019). Archivists as Amici Curiae: Activating Critical Archival Theory to Confront Racialized Surveillance. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 5. Retrieved from https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/35
Caswell, M. (2017). Teaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in Archives. The Library Quarterly, 87(3), 222-235. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1086/692299
Caswell, M. (2014). Inventing New Archival Imaginaries: Theoretical Foundations for Identity-Based Community Archives. In Identity Palimpsests: Ethnic Archiving in the U.S. and Canada, edited by Dominique Daniel and Amalia Levi. Sacramento, CA: Litwin.
Caswell, M., Broman, G., Kirmer, J., Martin, L., & Sowry, N. (2012). Implementing a Social Justice Framework in an Introduction to Archives Course: Lessons from Both Sides of the Classroom. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 8(2).
Dunbar, A. (2006). Introducing critical race theory to archival discourse: Getting the conversation started. Archival Science 6, 109-129.
Eagle, J.H. (2019). “I Want Them to Know We Suffer Here”: Preserving Records of Migrant Detention in Opposition to Racialized Immigration Enforcement Structures. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 5. Retrieved from https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/32
Gilliland, A. (2011). Neutrality, Social Justice, and the Obligations of Archival Education and Educators in the Twenty-First Century. Archival Science 11(3–4), 193–209.
Kim, E. (2017). Appraising Newness: Whiteness, Neoliberalism & the Building of the Archive for New Poetry. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(2). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i2.38
Ramirez, M.H. (2015). Being assumed not to be: A critique of whiteness as an archival imperative. The American Archivist, 78(2), 339-356. doi:10.17723/0360-9081.78.2.339 http://maint.literatumonline.com
Sutherland, T. (2017). Archival Amnesty: In Search of Black American Transitional and Restorative Justice. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(2). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i2.42
Williams, S. & Drake, J. (2017). Power to the People: Documenting Police Violence in Cleveland. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(2). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i2.33
Call to Action: Archiving State-Sanctioned Violence Against Black People
No one owes their trauma to archivists, or, the commodification of contemporaneous collecting
Confronting Our Failure of Care Around the Legacies of Marginalized People in the Archives
2018 CBC Massey Lecture #1 - Tanya Talaga - We Were Always Here
2018 CBC Massey Lecture #2 - Tanya Talaga - Big Brother’s Hunger
2018 CBC Massey Lecture #4 - Tanya Talaga - I Breathe For Them
2018 CBC Massey Lecture #5 - Tanya Talaga - We Are Not Going Anywhere
The Walrus - The Conversation Piece - Brittany Andrew Amofah on the power of local government
The Walrus - The Conversation Piece - Desmond Cole on the police
Archives have the power to boost marginalized voices / TED talk by Dominique Luster