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Race on trial : black defendants in Ontario's criminal courts, 1858-1958 / Barrington Walker.
Van Pelt Library KEO1167.5 .W35 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Barrington, 1970-
- Series:
- Canadian social history series
- Osgood Society for Canadian Legal History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Ontario--History.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Black people--Legal status, laws, etc--Ontario--History.
- Black people.
- Black people--Ontario--Social conditions.
- Race discrimination--Ontario--History.
- Race discrimination.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Black people--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Ontario.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Blackness and the law in slavery and freedom
- Nationhood, mercy and the gallows
- Black patriarchy
- Tales of a 'peculiarly horrible description' : archetypal rape narratives
- Rape, sex, and the power of dominant rape narratives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802099099
- 0802099092
- OCLC:
- 653388698
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