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

Informationen zum Autor Barrington Walker is an associate professor in the Department of History at Queen's University. Klappentext This exploration of the complex and often contradictory web of racial attitudes and the values of white legal elites not only exposes how blackness was articulated in Canadian law but also offers a rare glimpse of black life as experienced in Canada's past. Zusammenfassung This exploration of the complex and often contradictory web of racial attitudes and the values of white legal elites not only exposes how blackness was articulated in Canadian law but also offers a rare glimpse of black life as experienced in Canada's past. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 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 Race, Sex, and the Power of Dominant Rape Narratives Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Cobban, Barrington Walker, WALKER BARRINGTON
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2011
• EAN: 9780802096104
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9610-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History; Canadian Social History; Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History; Canadian Social History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology