‘Race-Coloured Glasses’

The primitive habit of viewing and classifying oneself and others according to skin colour is becoming more and more mainstream in Canada.

A recent manifestation of this racist worldview’s acceptance was the listing of “Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)” as one of Ottawa’s ‘Hill Times’ “Best Books in 2016”:
https://www.hilltimes.com/2017/01/03/hill-times-list-best-books-2016/91612

sayno-race-coloured-glasses-800x800It also was a Finalist for the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, and a ‘Globe and Mail’, ‘National Post’, ‘The Walrus’, ‘CBC Books’, ‘Chatelaine’, ‘49th Shelf’, and ‘Writers’ Trust’ Best Book of the Year winner.
http://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443441438/brown

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