Race on Trial : : Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 / / Barrington Walker.
While slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality in Ontario by documenting the history of black Ontarians who appeared before the criminal courts from the mid-nin...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Blackness and the Law in Slavery and Freedom
- 2. Nationhood, Mercy, and the Gallows
- 3. Black Patriarchy
- 4. Tales of a 'Peculiarly Horrible Description': Archetypal Rape Narratives
- 5. Race, Sex, and the Power of Dominant Rape Narratives
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index