Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the Rds Case

by Constance Backhouse

Book Overview

A history of the first case brought against systemic anti-Black racism in Canada.

The Canadian Supreme Court considered a complaint against judicial racial bias for the first time in 1997. The nation's first Black woman justice, Corrine Sparks, heard the initial case: a white Halifax officer arrested a Black teenager, placed him in a choke-hold, and charged him with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. In acquitting the teen,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774868279
• ISBN13: 9780774868273
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"