Race on Trial : Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 /

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Using capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, areas that had significant black populations because they were termini for the Underground Railroad, Barrington Walker investigates the limits of freedom for Ontario's African Canadians. Through court transcripts, depo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Barrington, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race discrimination.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc.
Black people > Social conditions.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Discrimination raciale > Ontario > Histoire.
Personnes noires > Ontario > Conditions sociales.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice penale > Ontario > Histoire.
Noirs > Droit > Ontario > Histoire.
Race discrimination > Ontario > History.
Black people > Ontario > Social conditions.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Ontario > History.
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc. > Ontario > History.
Ontario.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Blackness and the law in slavery and freedom
  • Nationhood, mercy and the gallows
  • Black patriarchy
  • Tales of a 'peculiarly horrible description' : archetypal rape narratives
  • Rape, sex, and the power of dominant rape narratives
  • Conclusion.

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