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Race," Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada

Historical Case Studies

Buch | Hardcover

463 Seiten

1997
Wilfrid Laurier University Press (Verlag)
978-0-88920-289-4 (ISBN)

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Four cases in which the legal issue was "race" -- that of a Chinese restaurant owner who was fined for employing a white woman; a black man who was refused service in a bar; a Jew who wanted to buy a cottage but was prevented by the property owners' association; and a Trinidadian of East Indian descent who was acceptable to the Canadian army but was rejected for immigration on grounds of "race" -- drawn from the period between 1914 and 1955, are intimately examined to explore the role of the Supreme Court of Canada and the law in the racialization of Canadian society. With painstaking research into contemporary attitudes and practices, Walker demonstrates that Supreme Court Justices were expressing the prevailing "common sense" about "race" in their legal decisions. He shows that injustice on the grounds of "race" has been chronic in Canadian history, and that the law itself was once instrumental in creating these circumstances. The book concludes with a controversial discussion of current directions in Canadian law and their potential impact on Canada's future as a multicultural society.

James W. St.G. Walker is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo, where he specializes in the history of human rights and race relations. His books include The Black Loyalists and "Race", Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada (WLU Press, 1998), and he has published numerous articles and book chapters analyzing campaigns for human rights reform.

Table of Contents for "Race," Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: Historical Case Studies by James W.St.G. Walker Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Invitation Chapter 1: Orientation "Race" and the Law Approaching the Bench Approaching the Past Chapter 2: Quong Wing v. The King The Legislation The Chinese Problem Restriction and Regulation Litigation Defending the Family The Moral Crusade Chinese Response Quong Wing and Quong Sing Quong Wing v. the King Explanations Quong Wing as Precedent Chapter 3: Christie v. York Corporation The Incident "Jim Crow" in Canada The Montreal Community Issues and Initiatives La Question de la Liberté In the Supreme Court of Canada Aftermath Christie as Precedent Chapter 4: Noble and Wolf v. Alley Exclusive Clientele Counter Attack Principles and Policies The Public Interest Preparing for the Supreme Court of Canada Noble and Wolf v. Alley Noble and Wolf as Precedent Chapter 5: Narine-Singh v. Attorney General of Canada "Race" and Immigration Restrictive Tradition South Asian Immigration Rehearsal: Narain Singh and Munshi Singh West Indian Immigration Policy Shifts, 1945-52 The Immigration Act, 1952 Campaign for Immigration Reform The Inevitable: Harry Singh in the Ontario Courts Anticlimax: The Supreme Court of Canada Confirmation Chapter 6: Implications "Race" and "Race Relations" Legal Sensibility Historical Study Afterword Directions in Public Policy Apprehensions Reflections Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.1997
Verlagsort	Waterloo, Ontario
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	790 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-88920-289-3 / 0889202893
ISBN-13	978-0-88920-289-4 / 9780889202894
Zustand	Neuware