Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

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Title
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Abstract
The author traces the violent realities of anti-blackness in Montreal and across Canada from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. She examines 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.
Place
Black Point, NS
Publisher
Fenwood Publishing
Date
2017
# of Pages
292p.
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-55266-980-8
Citation
Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Black Point, NS: Fenwood Publishing, 2017.
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