The African Canadian legal odyssey: historical essays
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press c2012
Series:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 483 p.)
ISBN:1442646896
1442666803
9781442646896
9781442666801

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