| Description |
1 online resource (x, 483 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Osgoode Society for Canadian legal history
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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History.
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation. |
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Canada. |
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History. |
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Black Canadians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History. |
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Black Canadians -- Social conditions. |
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Black Canadians -- History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Walker, Barrington, 1970-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781442646896 1442646896 |
| ISBN |
1442666803 (electronic book) |
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9781442666801 (electronic book) |
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9781442666818 (electronic book) |
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1442666811 (electronic book) |
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9781442646896 |
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1442646896 |
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