The African Canadian legal odyssey historical essays /
The African Canadian legal odyssey historical essays /
edited by Barrington Walker.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (x, 483 pages)
- Osgoode Society for Canadian legal history .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : from a property right to citizenship rights -- the African Canadian legal odyssey / Ethelbert Lionel Cross : Toronto's first Black lawyer / Constructing an "Imperial Pan-Africanist" : Henry Sylvester Williams as a university law student in Canada / "Bitterly disappointed" at the spread of "colour-bar tactics" : Viola Desmond's challenge to racial segregation, Nova Scotia, 1946 / Creating the myth of 'raceless' justice in the murder trial of R. v. Richardson, Sandwich, 1903 / Maniacal murderer or death dealing car : the case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933-1935 / The law's confirmation of racial inferiority : Christie v York / Errors of fact and law : race, space and hockey in Christie v. York / Slavery and slave law in the Maritimes / The burden of history : race, culture, African Canadian subjectivity, and Canadian law in R v. Hamilton / A Black day in court : "race" and judging in R. volume R.D.S. / Barrington Walker -- Susan Lewthwaite -- J. Barry Cahill -- Constance Backhouse -- Susan McKelvey -- David Steeves -- James W. St. G. Walker -- Eric M. Adams -- D.G. Bell, J. Barry Cahill, and Harvey Amani Whitfield -- David Sealy -- James W. St. G. Walker.
9781442666801
Black Canadians--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.
Race discrimination--Law and legislation--History.--Canada
Black Canadians--Social conditions.
Black Canadians--History.
Electronic Books.
KE4395 / .A375 2012
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : from a property right to citizenship rights -- the African Canadian legal odyssey / Ethelbert Lionel Cross : Toronto's first Black lawyer / Constructing an "Imperial Pan-Africanist" : Henry Sylvester Williams as a university law student in Canada / "Bitterly disappointed" at the spread of "colour-bar tactics" : Viola Desmond's challenge to racial segregation, Nova Scotia, 1946 / Creating the myth of 'raceless' justice in the murder trial of R. v. Richardson, Sandwich, 1903 / Maniacal murderer or death dealing car : the case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933-1935 / The law's confirmation of racial inferiority : Christie v York / Errors of fact and law : race, space and hockey in Christie v. York / Slavery and slave law in the Maritimes / The burden of history : race, culture, African Canadian subjectivity, and Canadian law in R v. Hamilton / A Black day in court : "race" and judging in R. volume R.D.S. / Barrington Walker -- Susan Lewthwaite -- J. Barry Cahill -- Constance Backhouse -- Susan McKelvey -- David Steeves -- James W. St. G. Walker -- Eric M. Adams -- D.G. Bell, J. Barry Cahill, and Harvey Amani Whitfield -- David Sealy -- James W. St. G. Walker.
9781442666801
Black Canadians--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.
Race discrimination--Law and legislation--History.--Canada
Black Canadians--Social conditions.
Black Canadians--History.
Electronic Books.
KE4395 / .A375 2012