Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of a 'Few Bad Apples' / Edition 1

by Frances Henry, Carol Tator, Charles Smith

Overview

Informed by a wealth of research and theoretical approaches from a wide range of disciplines, Racial Profiling in Canada makes a major contribution to the literature and debates on a topic of growing concern.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802086662
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication date:	07/01/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Frances Henry is a Professor Emerita, York University. She is one of Canada's leading experts in the study of racism and anti-racism, specializing in Caribbean anthropology.

Carol Tator is Course Director in the Department of Anthropology at York University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Theoretical Perspectives
2. The Interlocking Web of Racism across Institutions, Systems, and Structures
3. Racial Profiling in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom
   CHARLES C. SMITH
4. The Culture of Policing
5. The Role of Narrative Inquiry in Social Science Research: Understanding Dominant and Oppositional Discourses
6. The Dominant Discourses of White Public Authorities: Narratives of Denial, Deflection, and Oppression
7. In Their Own Voices: African Canadians in Toronto Share Experiences of Racial Profiling
   MAUREEN BROWN
8. From Narratives to Social Change: Patterns and Possibilities

Glossary

Table of Cases

References

Index

What People are Saying About This

Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan - Peter Li

This fascinating, ambitious, and highly readable book provides a detailed analysis of racial profiling in Canada. The authors expertly blend complex theoretical ideas about racial profiling, racism, racial ideology, and power differentials with interesting accounts of how racial profiling unfolds in everyday life, in police actions, police discourses, media descriptions, and other counter-discourses. I am not aware of another book in Canada that addresses these issues in such a powerful way.