Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

By Robyn Maynard

CW: police brutality, violence, racism

Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Robyn Maynard traces the violent realities of anti-Blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and  beyond, providing readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada.