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Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls / Jessica McDiarmid

Public ISBD Title : Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Material Type: printed text Authors: Jessica McDiarmid, Author Publisher: Anchor Canada ISBN (or other code): 978-0-385-68759-1 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Decolonization Gendered Violence and Survivors Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples Indigenous Studies Intergenerational Trauma MMIWG2S Police Brutality Sexual Assault, violence and healing 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, fathers, siblings, and friends - McDiarmid offers an intimate, firsthand account of their loss, and of their relentless fight for justice. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls [printed text] / Jessica McDiarmid, Author . - Canada : Anchor Canada, [s.d.]. ISBN : 978-0-385-68759-1 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Decolonization Gendered Violence and Survivors Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples Indigenous Studies Intergenerational Trauma MMIWG2S Police Brutality Sexual Assault, violence and healing 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, fathers, siblings, and friends - McDiarmid offers an intimate, firsthand account of their loss, and of their relentless fight for justice.

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Barcode	Call number	Media type	Location	Section	Status
978-0-385-68759-1	IND MCD 2020	Livre/Book	QPIRG-Concordia	Indigenous Peoples & First Peoples	Available