{"product_id":"reckoning-with-racism","title":"Reckoning with Racism","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1997, complacency about the racial neutrality of a predominantly white judiciary was shattered as the Supreme Court of Canada considered a complaint of judicial racial bias for the first time. The judge in question was Corrine Sparks, the country’s first Black female judge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReckoning with Racism\u003c\/em\u003e considers the \u003cem\u003eRDS\u003c\/em\u003e case. A white Halifax police officer had arrested a Black teenager, placed him in a choke hold, and charged him with assaulting an officer and obstructing arrest. In acquitting the teen, Judge Sparks remarked that police sometimes overreacted when dealing with non-white youth. The acquittal held, but most of the white appeal judges critiqued her comments, based on the tradition that the legal system was non-racist unless proven otherwise. That became a matter of wide debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book assesses the case of alleged anti-white judicial bias, the surrounding excitement, the dramatic effects on those involved, and the significance for the Canadian legal system.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constance Backhouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573562376374,"sku":"9780774868273","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774868273_c145e3cf-adb2-48d7-90a7-2531b6f075ae.jpg?v=1727877293","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/reckoning-with-racism","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}