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Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance,
Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness
from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn
Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of
nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance,
criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. While
highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives
traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple
institutions, shedding light on the state's role in perpetuating
contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law
enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention,
deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices,
disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates. Emerging
from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black
lives matter, Maynard's intersectional approach to anti-Black
racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state
violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with
disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black
communities. A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers
to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and
re-imagining a more just society.
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Rehearsals for Living (Paperback)
Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Afterword by Robin D.G. Kelley
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R554
R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
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A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now,
between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers
and activists. When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in
spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black
Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award-winning author of
several books, including the recent novel Noopiming, began writing
each other letters-a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity,
and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering
under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and
climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful
exchange on the subject of where we go from here. Rehearsals is a
captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and
detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers
convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some
new orbit. In a genre-defying exchange, the authors collectively
envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a
historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and
global-Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to
each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented
here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and
colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first
place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a vital demand for
a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up new ways of
ordering earthly life.
In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse
Cathy Crowe present the stories of frontline workers, advocates,
and people living without homes during the pandemic. The book uses
prose, poetry, and photography to document lived experiences of
homelessness, responses to the housing crisis, efforts to fight
back for homes, and possible solutions to move Toronto forward.
Contributors provide particular insight into policies affecting
Indigenous peoples and how the legacy of colonialism and
displacement reached a critical point during the pandemic. Offering
rich stories of care, mutual aid, and solidarity, Displacement City
provides a vivid account of a humanitarian disaster.
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Rehearsals for Living (Hardcover)
Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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R1,343
Discovery Miles 13 430
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Admid the overlapping crises of a pandemic, ecological disaster,
and global capitalism, two leading Black and Indigenous feminist
theorists ask one another: what do liberated lands, minds, and
bodies look like? These letters are part debate, part dialogue, and
part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two
razor-sharp thinkers, sending notes to each other during a stormy
present. Featuring a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and an
afterword by Robin D.G. Kelley.
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