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The Resource Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Jessica McDiarmid

Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Jessica McDiarmid

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"An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing 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 B.C. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. In Highway of Tears, Jessica McDiarmid meticulously 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. Highway of Tears will offer an intimate, 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, it will link 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"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Extent
xiii, 331 pages
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
Isbn
9781501160288
Instance
Label
Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
Title
Highway of Tears
Title remainder
a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
Statement of responsibility
Jessica McDiarmid
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True story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing 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 B.C. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. In Highway of Tears, Jessica McDiarmid meticulously 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. Highway of Tears will offer an intimate, 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, it will link 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"--
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10825524
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McDiarmid, Jessica
Dewey number
362.88089/97071185
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Indigenous women
  • Indigenous women
  • Indigenous women
  • Missing persons
  • Murder victims
  • Indigenous women
  • Canada
  • Indigenous women
  • TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Canadian Studies
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
  • Missing persons
  • Murder victims
  • Race relations
  • British Columbia
  • Canada
  • Northern British Columbia
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a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls
Label
Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Jessica McDiarmid
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Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-321) and index
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text
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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
Control code
on1125266869
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Extent
xiii, 331 pages
Isbn
9781501160288
Lccn
2019462043
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1125266869
Label
Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Jessica McDiarmid
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-321) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
on1125266869
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Extent
xiii, 331 pages
Isbn
9781501160288
Lccn
2019462043
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1125266869

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