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A review by justanotherayesha
The Skin We're in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, and Torture