Quiet Book Club

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

We invite you to read the current book club selection The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole.

The Skin We’re In chronicles systemic inequality over the course of a year, as told through a month-by-month narrative of Black experiences in Canada. This title was recommended by Talitha Klym, Indigenous Student Services Generalist at Red Deer Polytechnic.

Reviews:

• Citizens for Public Justice
• Quill & Quire

Find The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power in RDP Library (login for off-campus access):

Read the Book
Watch the Film

Recommended Reading

These book/ebook titles are available at RDP Library:

• The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
• Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice by bell hooks
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Black Writers Matter edited by Whitney French
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Viola Desmond’s Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land by Graham Reynolds

Recommended Viewing

These streaming video titles are available at RDP Library

• Hidden Figures
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• The Color Purple