Reckoning With Racism : Police, Judges, and the RDS Case

Backhouse, Constance

ISBN 10: 0774868279 / ISBN 13: 9780774868273

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2022

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 44580912-n

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A history of the first case brought against systemic anti-Black racism in Canada.
 
The Canadian Supreme Court considered a complaint against judicial racial bias for the first time in 1997. The nation’s first Black woman justice, Corrine Sparks, heard the initial case: a white Halifax officer arrested a Black teenager, placed him in a choke-hold, and charged him with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. In acquitting the teen, Sparks wrote that police often overreacted toward young people of color. A debate ensued about the tradition that the legal system was not racist in its ordinary course. Reckoning with Racism is a thorough study of the case, its debate, and its lasting effects on the Canadian legal system.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Constance Backhouse is distinguished university professor of law at the University of Ottawa. She has written numerous prize-winning books, including Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900–1950.

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Titel: Reckoning With Racism : Police, Judges, and ...
Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New