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Reckoning With Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case (Landmark Cases in Canadian Law) - Softcover

Backhouse, Constance

 
9780774868273: Reckoning With Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case (Landmark Cases in Canadian Law)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0774868279 ISBN 13: 9780774868273
Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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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Verlag
University of British Columbia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0774868279
ISBN 13 
9780774868273
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
289
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