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Race on Trial documents the history of Black Ontarians appearing before the criminal courts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. In spite of the province's formal legal equality, charges and convictions among the Black population point to pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality
`Race on Trial is a cutting-edge work, intertwining issues of blackness with the creation of a dominant Canadian nationhood. Barrington Walker effectively relates legal history to ideas of Black masculinity, patriarchy, and gender - topics that are not touched upon nearly enough in African Canadian history.' Harvey Amani Whitfield, Department of History, University of Vermont
The Canadian Social History Series is devoted to in-depth studies of major themes in our history, exploring neglected areas in the day-to-day existence of Canadians. The emphasis of this innovative series is on increasing the general appreciation of our past and opening up new areas of study for students and scholars. The editor of this series is Gregory S. Kealey, Professor of History and Vice-President (Research), University of New Brunswick. A leading historian of the Canadian working class, Dr Kealey was the founding editor of Labour/Le Travail
