Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

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

1 review

sarah984's review

challenging emotional medium-paced

3.0

I think that this is absolutely an important topic that needs to be spoken about more in Canada and British Columbia (especially since the government is still only kind of implementing the proposed changes piecemeal) but I was expecting more from this book. I found the organization of it a bit confusing since it jumps back and forth in time a lot, and I was expecting a stronger stance taken in the book itself based on the title. The actual book is more of a list of facts than an essay making a statement, and some questionable statements about the RCMP (that one officer saying he doesn't see colour was particularly egregious) are just stated with no clarification or authorial opinion attached.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Police brutality

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Medical content, Grief, Addiction, Child abuse, Colonisation, Murder, Racism, Rape, and Trafficking

Minor: Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, and Suicide