25 апр 1911 г. - The Hazel Huff case & anti-Black policies in Edmonton (1911)

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“One case that embodies the sexualized hysteria surrounding Black males, criminality and Black ‘foreigners’ is the case of Hazel Huff in Edmonton. In April 1911, white teenage Hazel Huff accused a Black man of breaking into her home, stealing a diamond ring and drugging her and assaulting her. A widely reported frenzy ensued and the purported assault was immediately blamed on the recent influx of Black migrants who had fled from the Klan in Oklahoma (Shepard 1997: 79). Newspapers played an important role in linking the presence of Black men to danger and crime, using terms such as ‘black rapist beast’ and headlines including ‘The Black peril’ and ‘A Negro Atrocity—White Girl Flogged and Assaulted by Late Arrivals at Edmonton’ (Shepard 1997: 79). Though shortly afterward, Huff confessed to the police that she had made the story up, the authorities kept the admission secret, and the resounding hysteria surrounding the dangers of Black male lust nearly resulted in the lynching of an innocent Black man named Wisue (Mathieu 2010: 53). This same year, Edmonton passed a resolution completely banning Blacks from the city (Boyko 1991: 155 in Abdi 2005: 53). Hatred and fear of Blackness were thus used by all levels of government—buttressed by the police and the white settler population—to fuel further anti-Black policies and reinforce the perception that Blackness equalled criminality.”

Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 42.

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