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Rady Office of Anti-Racism: Race, Racism, Anti-Racism Resources: COVID-19

Data Collection and COVID-19

COVID-19 Disability Survey Report for Data Collected from September 19th, 2021 to April 11th, 2022

Health officials to ask Manitoba COVID-19 patients about ethnicity to see who's affected

Race and ethnicity data collection during COVID-19 in Canada: if you are not counted you cannot count on the pandemic response

Race-based COVID-19 data may be used to discriminate against racialized communities

Ahmed R, Jamal O, Ishak W, Nabi K, Mustafa N. Racial equity in the fight against COVID-19: a qualitative study examining the importance of collecting race-based data in the Canadian context. Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines. 2021;7(1):15. doi:10.1186/s40794-021-00138-2

Race, Racism, and COVID-19

A Human Rights Based Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Principles and Actions

Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19

Bonilla-Silva, E. (2020). Colour-blind racism in pandemic times. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Vol. 8(3), 343-354. doi:10.1177/2332649220941024

Anti-Asian Racism

Articles

Leigh JP, Moss SJ, Tiifu F, et al. Lived experiences of Asian Canadians encountering discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study. cmajo. 2022;10(2):E539-E545. doi:10.9778/cmajo.20220019

Shang Z, Kim JY, Cheng SO. Discrimination experienced by Asian Canadian and Asian American health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study. cmajo. 2021;9(4):E998-E1004. doi:10.9778/cmajo.20210090

Yu H. The white elephant in the room: anti-Asian racism in Canada. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://beyond.ubc.ca/henry-yu-white-elephant/

Reports

CCNCTO and Project 1907. Another Year: Anti-Asian Racism Across Canada Two Years into the Covid-19 Pandemic

Podcasts

To, C. (Host). Voice of the Pandemic Podcast. CCNCTO. https://www.covidracism.ca/podcast

News Articles

2 Years into the Pandemic, anti-Asian hate is still on the rise in Canada, report shows

‘Stand with us’: Anti-Asian racism in Canada is nothing new, communities say after Atlanta shootings

Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence

Covid-19 Fueling Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia Worldwide

The model minority myth hides the racist and sexist violence experienced by Asian women

'Not always overt': Unmasking COVID racism

Police-reported anti-Asian hate crimes in Canada jumped 300 per cent in 2020: StatCan

Police-reported hate crimes up 21% in B.C. during 2nd year of pandemic

'Raise your voice': Campaign targets anti-Asian racism heightened amid COVID-19 in Canada

Anti-Black Racism

Anti-Black Racism Analysis Tool for a Radically Equitable COVID-19 Response

Anti-Indigenous Racism

Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Indigenous communities

Indigenous Peoples & the Covid-19 Pandemic: Considerations

What is the Impact of Covid-19 on Indigenous Peoples' Rights?

Islamophobia

Policing the boundaries of space and race during COVID-19

 

Gendered Racism

Etowa J, Hyman I. Unpacking the health and social consequences of COVID-19 through a race, migration and gender lens. Can J Public Health. 2021;112(1):8-11. doi:10.17269/s41997-020-00456-6

Khanlou N, Vazquez LM, Pashang S, Connolly JA, Ahmad F, Ssawe A. 2020 syndemic: convergence of covid-19, gender-based violence, and racism pandemics. J Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 2022;9(6):2077-2089. doi:10.1007/s40615-021-01146-w

 

2SLGBTQQIA+ Identities

2SLGBTQQIA+ during COVID