Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole

5 reviews

vanesst's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

Minor: Sexual assault and Slavery

ferretspies's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, and Murder

Minor: Mental illness, Racial slurs, Slavery, Suicide, and Torture

sunsetcity's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This book was super informative and really opened my eyes to the racial discrimination in Canada. I was never one of those people who thought Canada had no racism or problems, but there were so many cases and incidents that I have NEVER heard of and I have lived here my entire life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

stubbornlybookish's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

Moderate: Slavery

justanotherayesha's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.0

🦋 "When I was young I loved to write for myself. I wrote stories and poems and kept a journal. I always imagined that if I ever wrote anything for others to read, it would be fiction. I never dreamed of writing for a newspaper. And I never thought that after getting a job with one of the biggest in Canada, I'd ultimately walk away from it."

The Skin We're In by Desmond Cole takes you from one January to another by documenting racism, historical and ongoing, and its impact on Black people in Canada. I used to think about journalistic objectivity in a different way before I got to know of the writer's work + his experiences. I found the book very relevant with the ongoing discussion on BLM, abolition, journalism vs activism, Canada's military and white supremacy, honouring Indigenous treaties, & (as seen in the recent arbitration decision by Lorne Slotnick) who gets to follow codes of conduct of newsrooms.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Torture, and Police brutality