Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present Maynard RobynPaperback
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present Maynard RobynPaperback Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the…
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Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present Maynard RobynPaperback
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