Colour-Coded: A Legal History Of Racism In Canada, 1900-1950
1999
Published for the Osgoode Society by the University of Toronto Press
$36.75
Student Price $15.00
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Description
White supremacy had a tenacious hold on the historical roots of the Canadian legal system. Backhouse presents convincing case studies to illustrate how early 20th-century law played a dominant role in creating and preserving racial inequality. The cases focus on Aboriginal, Inuit, Chinese-Canadian and African-Canadian individuals, taking us from the criminal prosecution of traditional Aboriginal dance to the trial of members of the 'Ku Klux Klan of Kanada!
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Law professor Constance Backhouse has a wonderfully direct way of telling stories and explaining convoluted case law, so I too will be direct. I loved Colour-Coded. Laura Robinson, Globe and Mail, February 12, 2000
