The African Canadian legal odyssey : historical essays / edited by Barrington Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Barrington, 1970-

Series:

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series

Osgoode Society for Canadian legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination--Law and legislation--Canada--History.

Race discrimination--Law and legislation.

History.

Canada.

Physical Description:

x, 483 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]

Contents:

Introduction : from a property right to citizenship rights : the African Canadian legal odyssey / Barrington Walker

Ethelbert Lionel Cross : Toronto's first Black lawyer / Susan Lewthwaite

Constructing an "Imperial Pan-Africanist" : Henry Sylvester Williams as a university law student in Canada / J. Barry Cahill

"Bitterly disappointed" at the spread of "colour-bar tactics" : Viola Desmond's challenge to racial segregation, Nova Scotia, 1946 / Constance Backhouse

Creating the myth of 'raceless' justice in the murder trial of R. v. Richardson, Sandwich, 1903 / Susan McKelvey

Maniacal murderer or death dealing car : the case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933-1935 / David Steeves

The law's confirmation of racial inferiority : Christie v York / James W. St. G. Walker

Errors of fact and law : race, space and hockey in Christie v. York / Eric M. Adams

Slavery and slave law in the Maritimes / D.G. Bell, J. Barry Cahill, and Harvey Amani Whitfield

The burden of history : race, culture, African Canadian subjectivity, and Canadian law in R v. Hamilton / David Sealy

A Black day in court : "race" and judging in R. v. R.D.S. / James W. St. G. Walker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781442646896

1442646896

OCLC:

810526716