SOCB53H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Forced Marriage, White Privilege, Indian Act
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If race is a way of making knowledge about people, gender is part of the vocabulary of race. Being categorized within a racial group means also being categorized as a certain type of man or woman, that is distinct and relational to men of women of other racial groups. What do we already know about violence against indigenous women: often goes undocumented, seen as primitive and uncivilized when compared to the rest of canada. They weren t seen as fully human, seen as an animal. Some quick facts: missing and murdered aboriginal women are referred to as stolen sisters , between 1960s and 2010, 160 aboriginal women have either gone missing or been murdered in british. Specifically the downtown east side, the poorest postal code of canada: the native women s association of canada estimates that approximately 582 aboriginal women have gone missing snce the 1960s up until 2010.
