Reckoning With Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case - Couverture souple

Backhouse, Constance

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774868279 ISBN 13 : 9780774868273

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774868279
• ISBN 13: 9780774868273
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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