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03647aam a2200397 i 4500 |
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on1082260321 |
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OCoLC |
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20200220021332.0 |
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190115s2020 onc b 000 0 eng |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
NLC |
| Modifying agency |
OCLCF |
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NLC |
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OCLCQ |
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UKMGB |
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CaBVa |
| AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
lac |
| GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-cn--- |
| LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
VP@A |
| CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED IN CANADA |
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| Classification number |
FC106.B6 |
| Item number |
C65 2020 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
305.896/071 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780385686341 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
038568634X |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Cole, Desmond, |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The skin we're in : |
| Remainder of title |
a year of Black resistance and power / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Desmond Cole. |
| VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Skin we are in |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
246 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243). |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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. 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. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Discrimination in law enforcement |
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Police misconduct |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Police brutality |
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Race discrimination |
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Minorities |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Police-community relations |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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| d |
305.89 COL |
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800 |
