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Policing Black Lives

Policing Black Lives State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present By (author): Robyn Maynard

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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 Lives traces the... Read More

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 Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates.

Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities.

A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.

Awards

2018 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
2018 Society for Socialist Studies Errol Sharpe Book Prize
2018 Concordia University First Book Prize

Book details

Page length: 292 Publication Date: 2017-10-16 Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination,  Publisher: Fernwood Publishing ISBN: 9781552669792

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ISBN: 9781552669792
Title: Policing Black Lives
Subtitle: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
Contributor: Robyn Maynard (CA)
Format: Paperback / softback | Trade paperback (US)
Price (CAD): 25.00
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN13: 9781552669792
ISBN10: 1552669793
Publication Date: 20171016
Last Updated: 20201024
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<p>Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, <em>Policing Black Lives</em> 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.</p>
<p>While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, <em>Policing Black Lives</em> traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates.</p>
<p>Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities.</p>
<p>A call-to-action, <em>Policing Black Lives</em> urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.</p>

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Weight 0.0005 kg
Dimensions 9 × 6 × .5 in

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Robyn Maynard
Robyn Maynard

Robyn Maynard is a Black feminist writer, grassroots community organizer and intellectual based in Montr?al. Her work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Montr?al Gazette, World Policy Journal and Canadian Women Studies Journal.

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