She is the first scholar to conduct research on racism in Canada publishing a study of racial discrimination in employment in 1975.
She has a long list of books, reports and articles on many aspects racism in Canadian society.
[5] In 2009, she co-authored the fourth edition of The Colour of Democracy: Racism in Canadian Society[6] that is widely used in universities as a text.
Her books include: Racism in the Canadian University (with C. Tator) "The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities (developed and edited) He Had the Power: Pa Neezer, the Orisha King of Trinidad, about ‘Pa Neezer’ (Ebenezer Elliott).
Henry is a life long Wagnerian serves as Chair of the Toronto Wagner Society.