Racism
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Discrimination StoriesExclusion, Law, and Everyday Life |
Despite growing societal and media attention to problems of discrimination in Canadian society, legal concepts in equality and anti-discrimination law are not widely … | Colleen Sheppard | 224 | 2021 | View |
NEW! In Your FaceLaw, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada |
This book explores the experiences of a group of women in Canada who are small in numbers yet have garnered much legal, political, and social attention in recent years. Muslim women who cover … | Natasha Bakht | 266 | 2020 | View |
Racial Profiling and Human Rights in CanadaThe New Legal Landscape |
Racial profiling is a hot-button topic that elicits strong responses on both sides. A series of public discussions has so far failed to yield a conclusive consensus. Racial Profiling and Human … | Bobby Siu; Lesley A. Jacobs; Lorne Foster | 417 | 2018 | View |
The Colour of JusticePolicing Race in Canada |
The colour of justice in Canada is largely driven by stereotypical assumptions about crime and those who commit it. Over the last few years, the use of race, ethnicity, and religion as indicators … | David M. Tanovich | 275 | 2006 | View |
From Defining Racial Profiling |
Bobby Siu, an adjunct professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University, reviews the academic and government definitions of racial profiling with the aim of … | Bobby Siu | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
From NEW! IntroductionMeet Your Neighbours From: In Your Face |
In the introduction, the author outlines the reasons why some women choose to wear the niqab, and the flagrant disregard for these women’s basic dignity and human rights. | Natasha Bakht | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: The Colour of Justice |
The introduction lays out the prevalence of the problem of racial profiling among police encounters in Canada and frames the purpose, driving questions and methodologies of the book. | David M. Tanovich | 5 | 2006 | $0.50 Add |
From Be Careful Going Shopping: Racial Profiling in Everyday LifeFrom: Discrimination Stories |
This chapter covers racial profiling by examining Jacqueline Nassiah’s Case. Nassiah was detained and falsely accused of shoplifting. Consumer racial profiling and the prevalence of other … | Colleen Sheppard | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
From Chapter 1What is it? From: The Colour of Justice |
Chapter one defines and outlines the scope of racial profiling in Canada by police with a case study whereby an unwarranted police encounter was challenged, resulting in a police strike in … | David M. Tanovich | 22 | 2006 | $2.20 Add |
From NEW! Listening to the Voices of Niqab-Wearing WomenFrom: In Your Face |
In this chapter, Bahkt posits that most people in Canada have never actually conversed with a niqab-wearing woman. She attempts to rectify this situation by sharing some perspectives of women who … | Natasha Bakht | 32 | 2020 | $3.20 Add |
From The Human Rights Approach to Addressing Racial ProfilingThe Activity of the Ontario Human Rights Commission |
Shaheen Azmi, director of policy, education, monitoring, and outreach at the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), explains the human rights approach to addressing racial profiling in Chapter … | Shaheen Azmi | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
From Chapter 2Exposed From: The Colour of Justice |
This chapter explores the role of the media in heightening racial profiling in Canada. The chapter provides case studies including those of Dee Brown, a player for the Toronto Raptors, who … | David M. Tanovich | 21 | 2006 | $2.10 Add |
From Interrogating the Definition of Racial ProfilingA Critical Legal Analysis |
Sunil Gurmukh, counsel at the Ontario Human Rights Commission, further consolidates the human rights approach in Chapter 3 by describing how challenges to racial profiling are most substantive … | Sunil Gurmukh | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
From NEW! Veiled Objections:Facing Public Opposition to the Niqab From: In Your Face |
This chapter is an attempt to analyze the growing agitation that has been expressed about Muslim women who cover their faces. | Natasha Bakht | 43 | 2020 | $4.30 Add |
From Applying the Racial Profiling Correspondence Test |
In Chapter 4, David Tanovich, a professor of law at the University of Windsor, explores the application of the correspondence test in discrimination law as an important development for proving … | David M Tanovich | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
From Chapter 3Adjusting Our Lens From: The Colour of Justice |
Chapter three, Adjusting Our Lens, begins with a look at the pivotal case Drybones, which highlighted the unique needs of Aboriginal peoples in trials. The chapter then looks at the historical … | David M. Tanovich | 17 | 2006 | $1.70 Add |