The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power is a book by Desmond Cole published by Doubleday Canada in 2020.

[4][5][6] Among the events it discusses are the aftermath of the assault of Dafonte Miller in late 2016 and Canada 150.

[3] The work argues that Canada is not immune to the anti-Black racism that characterizes American society.

[7] Due to an error by the publisher, the initial printing of the book's cover did not include the word "Black" in the subtitle.

[9] In 2021, the book was nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.