Would you like to show your support for Black History Month? Use one of our Zoom backgrounds! Simply click on your preferred image to open it in your browser, then right-click and save it to your computer. Spots were filled on a first come, first served basis but we will do a second run of this book club at a later date. Explore the connections between gender, ethnicity, age, education and income, and understand that income inequality was created: take the Economic Policy Institute’s interactive website.take the Implicit Association Test that confronts your own unconscious biases.Themes are anti-Blackness at the border, our own racism in our schools, our child welfare system, examines Canada’s historical and contemporary narratives, looks at micro aggressions in employment, systemic inequality anti-black racism and Inclusion in education and other sectors, white supremacy, violent police brutality and oppression of Indigenous Peoples. “The Skin We’re In” discusses evidence of state violence against communities of colour through inaction including the mainstream Medias lack of attention to issues pertaining to black Canadians, and action that injustices and systemic inequalities Black Canadians face come in the forms of police violence and presence in Black lives and livelihoods. Now, in a book titled “The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power,” Nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writingĭesmond Cole is a Black activist and journalist who, in 2015, famously wrote “The Skin I’m In,” a Toronto Life article about being stopped by police more than 50 times and asked for ID in the controversial carding practice. To celebrate Black Excellence, and Black History Month, the BU Book Club is reading the book “The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power” by Desmond Cole. Please join us as we celebrate Black History Month at Brandon University! Book Club Learn more about Black History Month in Canada. Every February, Canadians are invited to participate in Black History Month festivities and events that honour the legacy of Black Canadians, past and present.
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