Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard

Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard

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.

Robyn Maynard is a Black feminist writer, grassroots community organizer and intellectual based in Montrü¾Ž–”¼al. Her work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Montrü¾Ž–”¼al Gazette, World Policy Journal and Canadian Women Studies Journal.

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ISBN 13	9781552669792
ISBN 10	1552669793
Title	Policing Black Lives
Author	Robyn Maynard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Year published	2017-10-16
Number of pages	292
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