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Join The Department of Sociology on March 6th, 2019 from 7:00-9:30PM in Andy's Place (AH100) for a special presentation from Robyn Maynard. 

Free. Everyone welcome. No RSVP required.

Robyn Maynard is the author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (Fernwood 2017). The book, her first, is a national bestseller in its third printing. It was designated as one of the "best 100 books of 2017" by the Hill Times, and is the winner of the 2017 Errol Morris Book Award. In the words of the Winnipeg Free Press: "Every Canadian — black, white, Indigenous or otherwise — could benefit from reading Maynard’s frank and thorough assessment of racism in Canada". Helping to create a national conversation on anti-Black racism in Canada, she has been touring the book across Canada to sold-out venues since its release. 

Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black life in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the social and historical forces behind Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, police violence, disproportionate incarceration, immigration detention and deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and the school-to-prison pipeline. Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities. A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.

For more information on Robyn Maynard's visit to campus, click here.

Robyn Maynard can be found on social media: Facebook @PolicingBlackLives, on Instagram at @PolicingBlack on Twitter @PolicingBlack 

This presentation is made possible thanks to our generous sponsors:

• RED (Rights, Equity and Diversity) Project of SNAC+ (Support Network for Academics of Colour +)
• I-CYS
• ORIS
• Women’s Scholars Speaker Series
• University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts & Science
• University of Lethbridge Office of the Provost
• University of Lethbridge Office of the President