Readings on Anti-Black Racism and the Law: Articles and Other Documents

Introductory

• Meerai, Sonia, Idil Abdillahi et al “An Introduction to Anti-Black Sanism” (2016) 5:3 Intersectionalities 1.

• Roach, Kent, "Systemic Racism and Criminal Justice Policy" (1996) 15 Windsor YB Access Justice 236.

The Destruction Of Africville, Nova Scotia

• Gregory, Jenny & Jill L Grant, “The Role of Emotions in Protests against Modernist Urban Redevelopment in Perth and Halifax” (2014) 42:2 Urban History Rev 44 (Open Access).

• Rutland, Ted, “Re-remembering Africville” (2011) 15:6 City 757.

Policing

• Khenti, Akwatu, “The Canadian War on Drugs: Structural Violence and Unequal Treatment of Black Canadians” (2014) 25:2 Intl J Drug Policy 190.

• Roach, Kent, “Making Progress on Understanding and Remedying Racial Profiling” (2004) 41: 4 Alta L Rev 895.

• Tanovich, David, “E-Racing Racial Profiling” (2004) 41:4 Alta L Rev 905.

• Tanovich, David, “Using the Charter to Stop Racial Profiling: The Development of an Equality Based Conception of Arbitrary Detention” (2002) 40:2 Osgoode Hall LJ 145.

Prosecutions

• Burke, Alafair S, “Prosecution and Peremptories” (2012) 97 Iowa L Rev 1467-88.

• Choudhry, Sujit & Kent Roach, “Racial and Ethnic Profiling: Statutory Discretion and Democratic Accountability” (2003) 41 Osgoode Hall LJ 1-36.

• Davis, Angela J, “Prosecution and Race: The Power and Privilege of Discretion” (1998) 67 Fordham L Rev 13.

• Tanovich, DM, “The Charter of Whiteness: Twenty-five Years of Maintaining Racial Injustice in the Canadian Criminal Justice System” (2008) 40 SCLR (2d) 656.

Immigration

• Smith, Adrian A, "Bunk House Rules: Housing Migrant Labour in Ontario" (2015) 52:3 Osgoode Hall LJ 863.

Juries

• Roach, Kent, “Challenges for Cause and Racial Discrimination” (1995) 37 Crim LQ 410.

• Ruparelia, Rakhi, “Erring on the Side of Ignorance: Challenges for Cause Twenty Years After Parks” (2014) 92 Can Bar Rev 267.

• Schuller, Regina A & Caroline Erentzen, “The Challenges for Cause and Procedure in Canadian Criminal Law” (2016) 6:2 Oñati Socio-Legal Series 315.

• Schuller, Regina A, Veronica Kazoleas & Kerry Kawakami, “The Impact of Prejudice Screening Procedures on Racial Bias in the Courtroom” (2009) 33:4 Law and Human Behavior 320.

• Sommers, Samuel R, “On Racial Diversity and Group Decision Making: Identifying Multiple Effects of Racial Composition on Jury Deliberations” (2006) 90:4 J Personality & Soc Psychology 597 (Open Access).

Sentencing

• Archibald, Bruce P, “Sentencing and Visible Minorities: Equality and Affirmative Action in the Criminal Justice System” (1989) 12 Dalhousie LJ 377.

• Lawrence, Sonia N & Toni Williams, “Swallowed up: Drug Couriers at the Borders of Canadian Sentencing” (2006) 56:4 UTLJ 285.

Racism, Legal Education And The Legal Profession

• Bakht, Natasha et al, “Counting Outsiders: A Critical Exploration of Outsider Course Enrollment in Canadian Legal Education” (2007) 45:4 Osgoode Hall LJ 667-732.

• Devlin, Richard F, “Towards An/Other Legal Education: Some Critical and Tentative Proposals to Confront the Racism of Modern Legal Education” (1989) 38 UNBLJ 89.

• Mosher, Janet, “Lessons in Access to Justice: Racialized Youths in Ontario’s Safe Schools” (2008) 46:4 Osgoode Hall LJ 807-851.

• Talbot, Lance, "History of Blacks in the Law Society of Upper Canada" (1990) 24 Law Society of Upper Canada Gazette 65.

Criminal Law and Hate Speech

• Roberts, Julian V & Andrew J.A. Hastings, “Sentencing in Cases of Hate-Motivated Crime: An Analysis of Subparagraph 718.2 (a)(i) of the Criminal Code” (2001-2002) 27 Queen’s LJ 93.

Racist Speech and Hate Literature

• Rosenthal, Peter, “The Criminality of Racial Harassment” (1989-1990) 6 CHRYB 113.

Human Rights and Tort Law

• Bradley, Anna Spain, “Human Rights Racism” (2019) 32 Harv Hum Rts J 1.

• Kopyto, H, “The Bhadauria Case: the Denial of the Right to Sue for Discrimination” (1981) 7 Queens LJ 144.

• Witelson, Tamar, “Retort: Revisiting Bhadauria and the Supreme Court’s Rejection of a Tort Discrimination” (1999) 10 Nat’l J Const L 149.

Impact of Race and Cultural Assessment (IRCA)

• Mirza, Faizal R, "Mandatory Minimum Prison Sentencing and Systemic Racism" (2001) 39:2/3 Osgoode Hall LJ 491.

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