Policing Black lives state violence in Canada from slavery to present Robyn Maynard

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maynard, Robyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Canada--History.

Black people.

Black people--Canada--Social conditions.

Race discrimination--Canada--History.

Race discrimination.

Discrimination in law enforcement--Canada.

Discrimination in law enforcement.

Canada--Race relations--History.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 pages)

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition

Contained In:

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2026

Place of Publication:

Durham Duke University Press 2025

Summary:

"Robyn Maynard's bestselling Policing Black Lives offers a comprehensive account of the state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and punishment of Black lives in Canada. In this revised and expanded edition, Maynard exposes Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance to document how half a century of police reforms have expanded the scope and scale of policing and undermined Black freedom struggles in the wake of global Black uprisings in 2020. She traces the afterlives of slavery across multiple institutions and illuminates the state's role in perpetuating colonial dispossession, racial profiling, police killings, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labor practices, and the school-to-prison pipeline. At the same time, Maynard foregrounds the ubiquity of Black resistance while offering new insights on how to build liveable futures without policing. Advancing a compelling vision for making policing obsolete and building new forms of safety, Policing Black Lives is an essential text that will guide and inspire activists, students, scholars, and all those working toward Black futures beyond surveillance and confinement"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

On state violence and Black lives

Devaluing Black life, demonizing Black existence : anti-Blackness from slavery to segregation

The Black side of the mosaic : slavery, racial capitalism and the making of contemporary Black poverty

Arrested (in)justice : from the streets to the prison

Law enforcement violence against Black women : naming their names, telling their stories

Misogynoir in Canada : punitive state practices and the devaluation of Black women and gender-oppressed people

"Of whom we have too many" : Black life and border regulation

Destroying Black families : slavery's afterlife in the child welfare system

The (mis)education of Black youth : anti-Blackness in the school system

Against the romance of police reform : expanding police power while undermining Black liberation

Futures beyond policing : making policing obsolete

Imagining Black futures

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black lives.

ISBN:

9781478061823

1478061820

Access Restriction:

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