Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

by Robyn Maynard

Book Overview

Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada.
While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552669793
• ISBN13: 9781552669792
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.2"