Barrington Walker

The African Canadian Legal Odyssey (eBook, PDF)

Historical Essays

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. ;

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Barrington Walker is an associate professor in the Department of History at Queen's University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442666801
• Artikelnr.: 48945135

Autorenporträt

Barrington Walker is an associate professor in the Department of History at Queen's University.

Inhaltsangabe

1) Introduction: From A Property Right to Citizenship Rights - The Black Canadian Legal Odyssey - Barrington Walker (Department of History
Queen’s University) Legal Pioneers 2) Ethelbert Lionel Cross
Toronto's First Black Lawyer - Susan Lewthwaite (Independent Scholar) Previously published in Constance Backhouse and W. Wesley Pue
eds.
The Promise and Perils of Law: Lawyers in Canadian History (Toronto: Irwin law
2009)
pp. 193-223 3) Constructing an “Imperial Pan-Africanist”: Henry Sylvester Williams as a University Law Student in Canada - J. Barry Cahill (Independent Scholar) Formal Legal Equality and Anti-Black Discrimination: Case Studies 4) Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond’s Challenge
Nova Scotia
1946 - Constance Backhouse (Faculty of Law
University of Ottawa) Previously published in Dalhousie Law Journal
Volume 17
1994
pp. ; 299-362 5) Creating the Myth of ‘Raceless’ Justice in the Murder Trial of R. v. Richardson
Sandwich
1903 - Susan McKelvey (York University) 6) Maniacal Murderer or Death Dealing Car: The Case of Daniel Perry Sampson
1933-1935 - David Steeves (Independent Scholar) 7) The Law's Confirmation of Racial Inferiority: Christie v York
1939 - James W. St. G. Walker (Department of History
University of Waterloo) Previously published as Chapter 3 of Walker
“Race
” Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: Historical Case Studies (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and Wilfrid Laurier University Press
1997)
pp. 122-180 8) Errors of Fact and Law: Race
Space and Hockey in Christie v. York - Eric Adams (Faculty of Law
University of Alberta) Previously published in University of Toronto Law Journal
2012 Slavery
Race and the Burden of History 9) Slavery and Slave Law in the Maritimes ; - David Bell
Faculty of Law (University of New Brunswick); J. Barry Cahill (Independent Scholar); and Harvey Amani Whitfield (Department of History
University of Vermont). Edited and consolidated by Philip Girard. Previously published as David G. Bell
‘Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist New Brunswick
’ University of New Brunswick Law Journal
Volume 31
1982
pp. 9-42; J. Barry Cahill
‘Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist Nova Scotia
’ University of New Brunswick Law Journal
Volume 43
1994
pp. ; 73-135; and J. Barry Cahill and H. Armani Whitfield
‘Slave Life and Slave Law in Colonial Prince Edward Island
1769-1825
’ Acadiensis
Volume 38
2009
pp. 29-51. 10) The Burden of History: Race
Culture
; African Canadian Subjectivity and Canadian Law in R v. Hamilton - David Sealey (formerly Centre of Criminology
University of Toronto) 11) A Black Day in Court: “Race” and Judging in R. v. RDS - James W. St. G. Walker (Department of History
University of Waterloo)