This book provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada.
The author, Robyn Maynard, is a Black feminist writer, grassroots community organizer and intellectual based in Montréal. Her work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, World Policy Journal and Canadian Women Studies Journal.
A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.
- 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 1552669793
- Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
- Dimensions: 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm (6 x 0.4 x 8.7 inches)
- Printed in Canada