The Highway of Tears: Black and Indigenous Women Go Missing
Summarize the problems the organizations are trying to address, and if they propose any solutions.
Readings are curated for consideration of ethics as applied to issues of race and ethnicity. The reflection here is two paragraphs on the Micro and Macro ethical aspects. Go back to Chapter 1 of the Smith textbook or the Week 1 article from the BBC on ethics.
You can use some aspect of that article to approach the reflection here (i.e., Approaches, Moral Maps). You are using a meta-analysis -- why is this an ethical issue? How might we approach this issue, and why?
The Micro aspect is ethics about individuals, individuals' everyday experiences. So, choose from the readings and describe a particular ethical issue on the micro aspect, and some suggestions on how others could approach the issue (and/or your thoughts on the solutions suggested), using the BBC article as a framework.
If you know of good resources regarding micro or macro issues in race and ethnicity, you may share those as part of either paragraph.
“The Highway of Tears”: Black and Indigenous Women Go Missing
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The organizations from the reading materials provided try to address the problem of young indigenous women and people of color missing. Particularly the organizations have emphasized the “highway of tears” a region in Canada where Aboriginal women are found dead or missing. The exact number of women lost from the highway is still unknown with speculations saying the number exceeds thirty yet only nine have been reported in the Highway of Tears symposium report (Highway of Tears, 2023). Further, the organizations have explained system issues such as racism and discrimination that have a role in creating the difference in justice and equality. The media, for instance, suffer from the missing white woman syndrome a term coined by Gwen Ifill for missing or murdered white women getting more attention and coverage. Modern communication platforms such as social media have adopted the syndrome by overlooking stories of black indigenous women missing. The Highway of Tears symposium