The African Canadian Legal Odyssey : : Historical Essays / / Barrington Walker.

• VerfasserIn: Walker, Barrington ,
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Eric M.,; Backhouse, Constance,; Bell, D. G.,; Cahill, J. Barry,; Lewthwaite, Susan,; Mckelvey, Susan,; Sealy, David,; Steeves, David,; Walker, Barrington,; Walker, James W. St. G.,; Whitfield, Harvey Amani,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. ;This collection demonstrates that the social history of Blacks in Canada has always been inextricably bound to questi52.99ons of law, and that the r...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: From a Property Right to Citizenship Rights - The African Canadian Legal Odyssey
• Part One. Legal Pioneers
• 2. Ethelbert Lionel Cross: Toronto's First Black Lawyer
• 3. Constructing an "Imperial Pan- Africanist": Henry Sylvester Williams as a University Law Student in Canada
• Part Two. Formal Legal Equality and Anti-Black Discrimination: Case Studies
• 4. "Bitterly Disappointed" at the Spread of "Colour-Bar Tactics": Viola Desmond's Challenge to Racial Segregation, Nova Scotia, 1946
• 5. Creating the Myth of "Raceless" Justice in the Murder Trial of R. v. Richardson, Sandwich, 1903
• 6. Maniacal Murderer or Death Dealing Car: The Case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933-1935
• 7. The Law's Confirmation of Racial Inferiority: Christie v. York
• 8. Errors of Fact and Law: Race, Space, and Hockey in Christie v. York
• Part Three. Slavery, Race, and the Burden of History
• 9. Slavery and Slave Law in the Maritimes
• 10. The Burden of History: Race, Culture, African-Canadian Subjectivity, and Canadian Law in R. v. Hamilton
• 11. A Black Day in Court: "Race" and Judging in R. v. R.D.S.
• Contributors