Amanie Johal's Reviews > Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Very dense, but luckily had access to the audiobook.

I can't remember how I heard about this, but I'm glad there's literature like this that focuses on anti-Blackness in Canada. It is so common to consider Canada a racial haven when compared to the US -- even growing up as a person of colour experiencing/witnessing racism, you tend to gaslight yourself into thinking it's not that bad because "at least we're not the US". There is a primary focus on state violence against Black people, but Maynard also mentions the similar instances of violence enacted against Indigenous peoples when relevant. She does not try to compare the two or treat them as equivalent, but more to consider the issue in an intersectional manner, which is appreciated.