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The African Canadian legal odyssey : historical essays /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
Ã2012.
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| Colección: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : from a property right to citizenship rights
- the African Canadian legal odyssey / Barrington Walker
- Ethelbert Lionel Cross : Toronto's first Black lawyer / Susan Lewthwaite
- Constructing an "Imperial Pan-Africanist" : Henry Sylvester Williams as a university law student in Canada / J. Barry Cahill
- "Bitterly disappointed" at the spread of "colour-bar tactics" : Viola Desmond's challenge to racial segregation, Nova Scotia, 1946 / Constance Backhouse
- Creating the myth of 'raceless' justice in the murder trial of R. v. Richardson, Sandwich, 1903 / Susan McKelvey
- Maniacal murderer or death dealing car : the case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933-1935 / David Steeves
- The law's confirmation of racial inferiority : Christie v York / James W. St. G. Walker
- Errors of fact and law : race, space and hockey in Christie v. York / Eric M. Adams
- Slavery and slave law in the Maritimes / D.G. Bell, J. Barry Cahill, and Harvey Amani Whitfield
- The burden of history : race, culture, African Canadian subjectivity, and Canadian law in R v. Hamilton / David Sealy
- A Black day in court : "race" and judging in R. v. R.D.S. / James W. St. G. Walker.