Highway of tears : a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780385687591
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Pages
331
Subject
Indigenous women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia, Northern
Tags
Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Canada -- Race Relations, Race Relations, Indigenous women -- British Columbia -- Social conditions, Indigenous women -- Social conditions, Indigenous women, Indigenous women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia -- Prevention, Indigenous women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia, Indigenous women -- Crimes against, Indigenous women -- Violence against -- British Columbia, Indigenous women -- Violence against -- British Columbia -- Prevention, Indigenous women -- Violence against, Missing persons, Missing persons -- British Columbia, Murder victims, Murder victims -- British Columbia, British Columbia
Abstract
"For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis.
Journalist Jessica McDiarmid investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate where Indigenous women and girls are over-policed, yet under-protected. Through interviews with those closest to the victims—mothers and fathers, siblings and friends—McDiarmid offers an intimate, firsthand account of their loss, and of their relentless fight for justice."--Back cover.
Journalist Jessica McDiarmid investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate where Indigenous women and girls are over-policed, yet under-protected. Through interviews with those closest to the victims—mothers and fathers, siblings and friends—McDiarmid offers an intimate, firsthand account of their loss, and of their relentless fight for justice."--Back cover.
Description
xiii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Biblio Notes
Contents:
A bright light
A brick wall
Part of you is missing
Falling through the cracks
The not knowing
An inch shy of a mile
Blatant failures
It depends who's bleeding
Rising tides
Breaking a spirit
This we have to live with every day
Where were you twenty years ago?
Canada's dirtiest secret
Winding down
The last walk
Epilogue: A safer place.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A bright light
A brick wall
Part of you is missing
Falling through the cracks
The not knowing
An inch shy of a mile
Blatant failures
It depends who's bleeding
Rising tides
Breaking a spirit
This we have to live with every day
Where were you twenty years ago?
Canada's dirtiest secret
Winding down
The last walk
Epilogue: A safer place.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Number of Copies
1
