Research Guides: PHIL 318: Black Radical Criminology and Theories of Justice: Books

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Selected Books

The African-Canadian Legal Odyssey (book and ebook)

Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario’s Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 (book and ebook)

Policing Black Bodies: How Black lives are Surveilled and how to Work for Change (book, earlier ed. ebook)

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (only print available):

Viola Desmond’s Canada: a History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land (only print available)

Freedom’s Conditions in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands in the Age of Emancipation (only print available)

North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada (print and ebook)