Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the Rds Case (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774868228)

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.

Author: Constance Backhouse
ISBN-10: 0774868228
ISBN-13: 9780774868228
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2023
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2023