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

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

Robyn Maynard

280 pages first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 comprehensi...

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hopeful: 10%

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