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

4 reviews

vanesst's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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pipn_t's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

This is an excellent book.  It discusses racism, really interesting to read about racism in Canada, especially as these stories are not all well publicized or discussed as widely as they should be in Canada.  Really valuable as an example of the all-pervasiveness of racism - it isn’t only a thing for one country.  I also really appreciated that it also included the issues of the  indigenous peoples of North America - this isn’t always discussed but it’s really good to see it also in a book like this as the issues are not unrelated.   
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medhuvada's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

For anyone that thinks Canada is a bastion of inclusivity - this book holds a mirror to every wrong assumption and ingrained, systemic anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity. Cole writes of a year of activism in Canada, wraps each story and chapter with care and concern for those whose stories he shares, and demonstrates failures in a racist settler-colonial system. This should be mandatory reading across the country, and hopefully then the activists working to dismantle these harmful institutions will be joined by more Canadians.
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lizard800's review

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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