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The Skin We're in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
5 reviews
mandkips's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Murder
Minor: Genocide and Torture
ferretspies's review
5.0
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
readsandrants's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, and Sexual harassment
justanotherayesha's review
4.0
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.
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Torture, and Police brutality
liteartha's review against another edition
white canadians have a massive problem of pretending we don’t have the same problems that exist south of the border. nothing has ever highlighted that fact to me more clearly than first hearing of the murder of a mentally ill Black man committed by the police — which occurred within a few minutes’ walking distance from my home — in this book. that is a massive failure both of mine, for not being better informed, and of local media and culture for not shining the same light it does on killings of this kind in the US
canadians, by and large, do not talk about this. canadians point the finger at the states and disparage their violently racist law enforcement while voicing relief that “things are much better here” as if we aren’t two sides of the same coin
canada is a deeply racist, ableist, queer- and transphobic country. our police are the perpetrators of the same violence we scorn in the US while ignoring at home. the intersectional lens this book employs while still remaining focused on the Black experience within canada was a revelation to me and will inform how i seek, receive, and act on news going forward. cole's journalistic background lends itself extremely well to this format, and his narration of the audiobook is clear and compelling. i can’t recommend this more highly
Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Murder
Moderate: Homophobia and Transphobia
Minor: Torture