Robyn Maynard
Robyn Maynard is a Black Canadian writer and Ph.D. student.[1][2] she is most noted for her 2017 book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, an examination of anti-Black Canadian racism that explores the enduring legacy of slavery in the ways that Black people experience surveillance and captivity through policing, jails, prisons, child welfare and border controls.[3] The book was designated one of the “best 100 books of 2017” by the Hill Times,[4] listed in The Walrus‘s “best books of 2018”,[5] shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award,[6] the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction,[7] and the winner of the 2017 Annual Errol Morris Book Prize.[8] Its French translation won the Prix des Libraires du Québec (2019) in the essay category.[9] Recent scholarly publications include "Police Abolition/Black Revolt" [10] and "Black Life and Death Across the US-Canada Border: Border violence, Black fugitive belonging and a Turtle Island view of Black liberation."[11]
Her writing has also appeared in publications including the Washington Post, the World Policy Journal, the Toronto Star, Canadian Woman Studies, Scholar and Feminist Online and Maisonneuve[citation needed].
In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, Canada's literary award for emerging LGBTQ writers.[12]
Her newest work is called Rehearsals for Living,[13] a book co-authored with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Rehearsals for Living is an exchange between two activists, one Black, and one Indigenous; both women and mothers, on the subject of where we go from here.[14]
References[]
- ^ Tayo Bero, "Robyn Maynard Is Writing Canada's Hard Truths". Chatelaine, August 20, 2020.
- ^ ""Do I believe we can have a police-free future in our lifetime? Absolutely": Policing expert Robyn Maynard on how defunding would work in practice". 12 June 2020.
- ^ Ryan B. Patrick, "Why Robyn Maynard wrote a book exposing the underreported history of racial injustice in Canada". CBC Books, October 13, 2017.
- ^ "The Hill Times' List of 100 Best Books in 2017". 18 December 2017.
- ^ "Ten Canadian Authors on the Best Books of 2018 | the Walrus". 28 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist".
- ^ "QWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language Authors : Books: View".
- ^ "Call for Nominations for the 2021 Society for Socialist Studies' Errol Sharpe Book Prize -". 13 November 2020.
- ^ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Arts-. "Prix des libraires 2019 : NoirEs sous surveillance et Uiesh –Quelque part parmi les œuvres primées". Radio-Canada.ca (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ Maynard, Robyn (2020). "Police Abolition/Black Revolt". Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. 41: 70–78. doi:10.3138/topia-009. S2CID 229355864.
- ^ Maynard (2019). "Black Life and Death across the U.S.-Canada Border: Border Violence, Black Fugitive Belonging, and a Turtle Island View of Black Liberation". Critical Ethnic Studies. 5 (1–2): 124–151. doi:10.5749/jcritethnstud.5.1-2.0124. JSTOR 10.5749/jcritethnstud.5.1-2.0124.
- ^ Ryan Porter, "Finalists announced for the 2020 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire, August 25, 2020.
- ^ https://www.transatlanticagency.com/2020/12/11/deal-news-canadian-rights-to-rehearsals-for-living-by-robyn-maynard-and-leanne-betasamosake-simpson-to-knopf-canada/
- ^ "Deal News: Canadian rights to UNTITLED by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson to Knopf Canada". 11 December 2020.
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