Policing Black Lives

Robyn Maynard's bestselling <i>Policing Black Lives</i> 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 <i>Policing Black Lives</i> is an essential text that will guide and inspire activists students scholars and all those working toward Black futures beyond surveillance and confinement.