The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence pol…

If you like book The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

Buy this book on Amazon
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Buy this book on Amazon
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tra…
Buy this book on Amazon
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written …
Buy this book on Amazon
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.

With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues f…
Buy this book on Amazon
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF …
Buy this book on Amazon
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addic…
Buy this book on Amazon
Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As a child, he endured the intergenerational trauma that resulted from his family attending residential …
Buy this book on Amazon
Scarborough

City of Toronto Book Award finalist Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner city communities, it suffers…
Buy this book on Amazon
Five Little Indians

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released …
Buy this book on Amazon
I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

Buy this book on Amazon
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 year…
Buy this book on Amazon
All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)

In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to …
Buy this book on Amazon
Denison Avenue

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders

Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Inn…
Buy this book on Amazon
"Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power

Buy this book on Amazon
The Break

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist

When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of …
Buy this book on Amazon
How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ou…
Buy this book on Amazon
Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

Buy this book on Amazon
So You Want to Talk About Race

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--o…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Story of Us

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bond of family and the magic that can happen when we meet in the middle

Like many Overseas Filipino Work…
Buy this book on Amazon