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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- From Invisibility to Visibility
- The New Carceral Consensus
- On the Expanded Edition
- The Global Scope of Struggle
- Introduction: On State Violence and Black Lives
- Race and Racial Subjugation
- In Defence of All Black Lives
- Chapter One: Devaluing Black Life, Demonizing Black Existence / Anti-Blackness from Slavery to Segregation
- Black Bondage
- Elusive Emancipation, Freedom Runners and the Underground Railroad
- Segregation in Canada’s Jim Crow Era
- Evolving Practices of Policing and Confinement
- Evolving Forms of Domination
- Chapter Two: The Black Side of the Mosaic / Slavery, Racial Capitalism and the Making of Contemporary Black Poverty
- Black Subjugation as Multiculturalism
- Imperial Theft and the Origins of Black Displacement
- The Legacy of Unfree Black Labour in Temporary Work Programs and Undocumented Workers
- The State’s Role in Impoverishing Black Communities
- The Devaluation of Black Life
- Chapter Three: Arrested (IN)Justice / From the Streets to the Prison
- The Racialization of Crime
- Police Profiling and the Restriction of Black Movement
- Canada’s War on Drugs, Drug Prohibition and Black Incarceration
- Discretion and Enforcement
- Collateral Damage
- Police Violence and Impunity
- From the Street to the Courthouse
- The Violence of Captivity
- Against Prisons
- Black Freedom Struggles and the Rejection of Racialized Punishment
- Chapter Four: Law Enforcement Violence Against Black Women / Naming their Names, Telling their Stories
- Audrey Smith
- Chevranna Abdi
- Jacqueline Nassiah
- Sharon Abbott
- Stacy Bonds
- Majiza Philip
- Santina Rao
- Larger Patterns of Profiling and Abuse at the Hands of Law Enforcement
- Defending Black Women
- Chapter Five: Misogynoir in Canada / Punitive State Practices and the Devaluation of Black Women and Gender-Oppressed People
- Welfare Fraud, Misogynoir and the Criminalization of Poverty
- Black Women as Sexual Threats in Public Space
- Profiling Black Women as Drug Mules
- Sisters Behind Bars
- Overpoliced, Underprotected
- Bringing an End to State Violence against Black Women
- Chapter Six: “Of Whom we have Too Many” / Black Life and Border Regulation
- Race and Belonging
- The Criminalization of Migration
- Immigration Detention as Indefinite and Arbitrary Captivity
- Double Punishment
- “Passport Babies” and the Demonization of Black Motherhood
- Against Border Regulation
- Toward Free Black Movement
- Chapter Seven: Destroying Black Families / Slavery’s Afterlife in the Child Welfare System
- A History of Black Child Welfare
- Blackness as Risk
- Neglectful Black Families or Neglectful State Policies?
- Drug Use and the Punishment of Black Mothers
- The Violence of Life “in Care”
- An End to the Policing of Black Families
- Chapter Eight: The (MIS)Education of Black Youth / Anti-Blackness in the School System
- The Evacuation of Black Children from the Construction of Innocence
- Education Policy as a Tool for White Supremacy
- Streaming Black Students
- School Discipline Policies, Racialized Surveillance and Punishment
- The School-to-Prison Pipeline
- The Pushout, Fugitivity and Resistance
- Fighting Back, Fighting to Win
- Chapter Nine: Against the Romance of Police Reform / Expanding Police Power while Undermining Black Liberation
- Criminalization and Pacification: A Two-Pronged Response to Black Rebellion
- Reform as Pacification
- Community Policing: Expanding the Carceral Web
- Hiring Black Officers into a Violent Institution
- The Ubiquity and Failure of Race-Relations and De-escalation Trainings
- The False Promise of Civilian Oversight Bodies
- Body Cameras and the Illusion of Accountability
- Fatal Misunderstandings
- Chapter Ten: Futures Beyond Policing / Making Policing Obsolete
- Rethinking Crime, Harm and Safety: Understanding the Function of Police
- Divesting from Harm, Investing in Community and Ending the War on Black Life
- Envisioning an End to Criminalization and an End to Harm
- Rethinking Violence
- Demilitarizing Our Neighbourhoods
- Dismantling Police Associations and Police Unions
- The End of Policing as We Know It
- Conclusion: Imagining Black Futures
- Broadening the Horizon of Struggle
- Solidarity with Indigenous Freedom Struggles
- Defund the Global Policeman, Divest from Imperialism
- The Long Struggle Toward Liberation
- Acknowledgements
- Endnotes
- Index
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