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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. Both Cole's activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book, The Skin We're In. Puncturing once and for all the bubble of Canadian smugness and naiÌve assumptions of a post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year--2017--in the struggle against racism in this country. It was a year that saw calls for tighter borders when African refugees braved frigid temperatures to cross into Manitoba from the States, racial epithets used by a school board trustee, a six-year-old girl handcuffed at school. The year also witnessed the profound personal and professional ramifications of Desmond Cole's unwavering determination to combat injustice. In April, Cole disrupted a Toronto police board meeting by calling for the destruction of all data collected through carding. Following the protest, Cole, a columnist with the Toronto Star, was summoned to a meeting with the paper's opinions editor and was informed that his activism violated company policy. Rather than limit his efforts defending Black lives, Cole chose to sever his relationship with the publication. Then in July, at another TPS meeting, Cole challenged the board publicly, addressing rumours of a police cover-up of the brutal beating of Dafonte Miller by an off-duty police officer and his brother. When Cole refused to leave the meeting until the question was publicly addressed, he was arrested. The image of Cole walking, handcuffed and flanked by officers, out of the meeting fortified the distrust between the city's Black community and its police force. 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. Urgent, controversial and unsparingly honest, The Skin We're In is destined to become a vital text for anti-racist and social justice movements in Canada, as well as a potent antidote to the all-too-present complacency of many white Canadians."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 651 0 $a Canada $x Race relations. 650 0 $a Discrimination in law enforcement $z Canada. 650 0 $a Discrimination in criminal justice administration $z Canada. 650 0 $a Police misconduct $z Canada. 650 0 $a Police brutality $z Canada. 650 0 $a Race discrimination $z Canada. 650 0 $a Minorities $x Crimes against $z Canada. 650 0 $a Police-community relations $z Canada. 650 5 $a Black Canadians $x Social conditions. 650 7 $a Discrimination in criminal justice administration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00895034 650 7 $a Discrimination in law enforcement. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00895102 650 7 $a Minorities $x Crimes against. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023104 650 7 $a Police brutality. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01068571 650 7 $a Police-community relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01068784 650 7 $a Police misconduct. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01068618 650 7 $a Race discrimination. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086465 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 651 7 $a Canada. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204310 776 08 $i Online version: $a Cole, Desmond, 1982- $t Skin we're in. $d Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2020 $z 9780385686358 $z 9780385686358 $w (OCoLC)1082259943 941 $a 3 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20210126010844.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200917010049.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20200812034129.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D639C30DB9811EAAFE110FF96128E48 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search