Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the "RDS" Case
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0774868279
ISBN13:9780774868273
Release Date:November 2022
Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.83 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"
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