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Police Abolition / Black Revolt
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In Police Abolition / Black Revolt author Robyn Maynard reflects on the current shift towards social movements and the renewed surge of energy to defund—and abolish—the police. Maynard discusses issues such as the future of policing Black life in Canada, arguments towards reform, defunding, and/or abolition moving forward, and more.
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Robyn Maynard
Robyn Maynard is a Toronto-based author and scholar. She is the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Fernwood 2017). The book is a national bestseller, designated as one of the “best 100 books of 2017” by the Hill Times, listed in the Walrus’s “best books of 2018,” shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, the Concordia University First Book Prize, and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction, and the winner of the 2017 Errol Sharpe Annual Book Prize. In fall 2018 the book was published in French with Mémoire d’encrier, titled NoirEs sous surveillance : Esclavage, répression et violence d’État au Canada. Translated by Catherine Ego, it recently won the 2019 Prix des libraires in the category of “essais.” Her current project is a book of letters co-written with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, titled Rehearsals for Living, under contract with Knopf Canada (2022) and edited by Lynn Henry.
