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Author_Robyn Maynard
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Product details
- ISBN 9781478029618
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Robyn Maynard’s bestselling Policing Black Lives offers a comprehensive account of the state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and punishment of Black lives in Canada. In this revised and expanded edition, Maynard exposes Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance to document how half a century of police reforms have expanded the scope and scale of policing and undermined Black freedom struggles in the wake of global Black uprisings in 2020. She traces the afterlives of slavery across multiple institutions and illuminates the state’s role in perpetuating colonial dispossession, racial profiling, police killings, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labor practices, and the school-to-prison pipeline. At the same time, Maynard foregrounds the ubiquity of Black resistance while offering new insights on how to build liveable futures without policing. Advancing a compelling vision for making policing obsolete and building new forms of safety, Policing Black Lives is an essential text that will guide and inspire activists, students, scholars, and all those working toward Black futures beyond surveillance and confinement.
Robyn Maynard is Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at the University of Toronto and coauthor of Rehearsals for Living.
