Decolonizing the Heart Reading List
“Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” - Peggy Mcintosh's work on educating people on white privilege. McIntosh conveys that racism can be found within white privilege itself, because white parties are granted unearned dominance in the invisible systems that distinguish the elite from the many.
The Colonizer and the Colonized, Alberto Memmi, 1957.
Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, 1963.
pedagogy of the oppressed. Paulo Freire. Bloomsbury: New York, London, 2000.
Brene Brown: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame?language=en ; https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability?language=en ; https://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/shame-resilience-theory/
Ego, Hunger & Aggression. F.S. Perls. Vintage Books, A Division of Random House: New York, 1947, 1969.
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society’s Betrayal of the Child. Alice Miller. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 1981.
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society’s Betrayal of the Child.
Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience. Betty Jean Lifton. Harper Perennial: New York, 1983.
“Compulsory Heterosexuality & Lesbian Existence”. Adrienne Rich. Signs: Journal of Woman in Culture and Society. Signs 5.4 (1980): 631
Integrative Feminisms: Building Global Vision 1960s – 1990s. Angela Miles, Routledge, New York and London, 1996.
Women and The Gift Economy – a radically different world is possible. Ed., Genevieve Vaughan. Inanna Press: Toronto, 2007.
The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy. Ed., Genevieve Vaughan. Inanna Press: Toronto, 2018.
Motherhood in Patriarch: Animosity Towards Mothers in Politics and Feminist Theory – Proposals for Change. Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve. Barbara Budrich Publishers: Berlin & Toronto, 2013.
“Gender in Egalitarian Societies”, Eleanor Leacock. From Becoming Visible: Women in European History. 2nd edition, edited by Renate Bridenthal and Claudia Koonz (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1987) https://washburn.edu/cas/history/stucker/Leacock.html Also see: Eleanor Burke Leacock and Intersectionality: Materialism https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41675356.pdf
Bil Ury’s TedXTalk: www.ted.com/talks/william_ury?language=en
Crucial Conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high. Patterson, Grenny, McMillan,
Switzer. McGraw Hill: Toronto, 2012
Getting To Yes. Roger Fisher & William Ury, Penguin: New York, 1981.
Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry: Conversations on Creation, Land Justice, And Life Together. Ed., Steve Heinrichs, Herald Press, 2013.
Capitalism: A Ghost Story. Arundhati Roy, Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2014.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism. David Harvey. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2005.
The Comeback. John Ralston Saul. Penguin: Toronto, 2014.
Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call. Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson. Between the Lines: Toronto, 2015.
The History of White People. Nell Irvin Painter. Norton: New York, 2010.
A People’s History of Science: Miners, Midwives and “Low Mechanicks”. Clifford D. Connor. Nation Books: New York, 2005.
Essay: “Nehiyaw iskwew kiskinowâtasinahikewina— paminisowin namôya tipeyimisowin” -
Learning Self Determination Through the Sacred. wahpimaskwasis (little white bear)