Policing Black Lives, Robyn Maynard
Policing Black Lives, Robyn Maynard
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Policing Black Lives
State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Author: Robyn Maynard

Narrator: Marcia Johnson

Unabridged: 12 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 12/11/2019


Synopsis

Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates. Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities. A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kara on May 09, 2018

Policing Black Lives took me almost an entire month to read, which is virtually unheard of, and it’s not a very long book. It is, however, very dense, academic, and not at all happy reading. Nevertheless, it is an important book. I first heard about it, and from Robyn Maynard, on an episode of the C......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on August 31, 2020

This book should be required reading for Canadians. I was quite angry as I read it. Why was I angry? There was so much in here that I did not know. I was not aware that we had slavery in Canada for 200 years, or that the Canadian government actively discouraged Blacks from immigrating by telling the......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on December 15, 2020

I don’t even know where to start with this book. It’s heartbreaking and disgusting to think that the country I live in could be so racist. I also feel terribly uneducated, I had no idea how badly Black people were treated by Canada. But it is my responsibility as a Canadian to know and to educate my......more

Goodreads review by Liv on January 07, 2022

this really should be in canadian school curriculum, I learned so much while reading......more

Goodreads review by Simon-pierre on March 30, 2019

Some books should be read by everyone. This is is one of them.......more