Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls /
Provides an examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, women--overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds--have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2034495 |
| Summary: | Provides an examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, women--overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds--have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. McDiarmid explores the effect these tragedies have had on communities in the region, and how systemic racism and indifference towards Indigenous lives have created a culture of "over-policing and under-protection," simultaneously hampering justice while endangering young Indigenous women. The author offers a first-hand look at the communities along Highway 16 and the families of the victims, as well as examine the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settler and Indigenous peoples that underlie life in the region. Finally, McDiarmid links these cases with others found across Canada--estimated to number over 1,200--contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in the country and of our ongoing failure to provide justice for the missing and murdered. --From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501160288 1501160281 9781501160295 150116029X |