Robyn Maynard
Robyn Maynard is a Black Canadian writer and academic.[1] One of Canada's leading scholars on policing, Black liberation and abolition,[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 is widely taught in universities across North America and Europe and 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.
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, a book co-authored with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Rehearsals for Living is a powerful exchange between two of Canada’s most important contemporary thinkers, authors and activists – one Black, and one Indigenous; both women and mothers — on the subject of where we go from here: an unusually vital and arresting epistolary book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers sending notes to each other under stay-at-home orders during the stormy present, articulating Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, the long history of slavery and colonization that has brought us here, and what possibilities a post-pandemic future might hold. Forthcoming from Knopf Canada, Spring 2022.[13]
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 Canadian 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.
- ^ "Deal News: Canadian rights to UNTITLED by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson to Knopf Canada". 11 December 2020.
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