A crucial work in chronicling Black experiences in Canada If you only read one book this year make it this one Policing Black Lives is a comprehensive and necessary book for anyone who cares about the past present and future of Black life in this country Brilliant work

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- Black Lives Matter Toronto

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Robyn Maynard offers powerful lessons for making antiblackness in Canada legible to activists scholars policy makers and community members committed to building a future nationand worldfree of racism heteropatriarchy xenophobia and exploitation

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- Erik S McDuffie author of Sojourning for Freedom Black Women American Communism and the Making of Black Left Feminism

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Grounded in an impressive and expansive treatment of Black Canadian history Maynard has written a powerful account of state antiBlack violence in Canada Empirically rich and theoretically nimble this work is an outstanding contribution to Black Canadian Studies

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- Barrington Walker Queens University

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Thanks Robyn Maynard for opening all of our eyes to a scary history and frightening present for Black Canada

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- Patrisse CullorsKhan cofounder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network

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Timely urgent and cogentbrilliantly elucidates the grotesque antiBlack racist practices coming from the state and other institutions imbued with power over Black peoples lives

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- Afua Cooper

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Robyn Maynards meticulouslyresearched and compelling analysis of state violence challenges prevailing narratives of Canadian multiculturalism and inclusion by examining how structures of racism and ideologies of gender are complexly anchored in global histories of colonization and slavery This book should be read not only by those who have a specific interest in Canadian histories and social justice movements but by anyone interested in the abolitionist and revolutionary potential of the Black Lives Matters movement more broadly

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- Angela Y Davis

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To understand this moment in Canada when Black communities are asserting that Black Lives really do matter readers need this book

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- Sylvia D Hamilton

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In this eyeopening and timely book Robyn Maynard deftly and conclusively pulls back the veil on antiBlack racism in Canada exploding the myth of multiculturalism through an emphatically and unapologetically intersectional lens In compelling and accessible prose Maynard provides a sweeping overview of Canadian state violence from colonial times to the present seamlessly articulating the relationship and distinctions between settler colonialism and antiBlackness and centering Black women trans and gender nonconforming people within the broader narrative Through an analysis squarely situated in the global socioeconomic context Policing Black Lives explores parallels between state violence in Canada and its neighbor to the South as well as the unique legal social and historical forces informing criminalization through segregation surveillance stop and friskcardingstreet checks the war on drugs gang policing the school to prison pipeline welfare fraud and child welfare enforcement and the conflation of immigration and criminality The result is both eyeopening and chilling firmly pointing to shared fronts of struggle across borders Policing Black Lives is a critical read for all in Canada and the United States who SayHerName and assert that BlackLivesMatter and essential to movements for Black liberation on Turtle Island

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- Andrea J Ritchie author Invisible No More Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color