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Title
The skin we're in : a year of black resistance and power (39373)
Collection Professional Library
Synopsis 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 Cole, Desmond
Dimensions 24 cm
ISBN# 9780385686341
Stmt Resp Desmond Cole.
PV Issued also in electronic format.
TitleVartn Skin we are in
Subjects Blacks—Canada—Biography; Canada—Race relations; Discrimination; Race discrimination—Canada; Race relations; Racial profiling in law enforcement; Racism; Racism—Canada; Diversity(CK)
Call# 305.896 COL
Holdings
Book 1 copy

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