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| Title
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The skin we're in : a year of black resistance and power (39373) |
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| Collection
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Professional Library
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| Synopsis
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In May 2015, the cover story of Toronto Life magazine shook
Canada's largest city to its core. Desmond Cole's "The Skin I'm In"
exposed the racist practices of the Toronto police force, detailing
the dozens of times Cole had been stopped and interrogated under the
controversial practice of carding. The story quickly came to national
prominence, went on to win a number of National Magazine Awards and
catapulted its author into the public sphere. Cole used his newfound
profile to draw insistent, unyielding attention to the injustices
faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis: the devastating effects of
racist policing; the hopelessness produced by an education system
that expects little of its black students and withholds from them the
resources they need to succeed more fully; the heartbreak of those
vulnerable before the child welfare system and those separated from
their families by discriminatory immigration laws. In a
month-by-month chronicle, Cole locates the deep cultural, historical
and political roots of each event so that what emerges is a personal,
painful and comprehensive picture of entrenched, systemic inequality.
-provided by publisher.
| Author
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Cole, Desmond
| Dimensions
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24 cm
ISBN#
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9780385686341
| Stmt Resp
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Desmond Cole.
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Issued also in electronic format.
| TitleVartn
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Skin we are in
| Subjects
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BlacksCanadaBiography;
CanadaRace relations;
Discrimination;
Race discriminationCanada;
Race relations;
Racial profiling in law enforcement;
Racism;
RacismCanada;
Diversity(CK)
| Call#
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305.896 COL
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