This essay will analyze how the creation of the nation-state systemically marginalizes indigenous women because of their race, class, gender, ethnicity and sexuality. I will briefly define the concept of spatial segregation to understand how it relates to the film Finding Dawn and the book Ravensong. The nation-state facilitates violence towards indigenous communities through their laws, social practices, and institutional policies. Moreover, aboriginal women are highly vulnerable to male violence because of how patriarchal powers define their identities. Sherene H. Razack “gender racial violence and spatialized justice: The murder of Pamela George” argues that the birth of the term “spatial segregations” came to life during the creation
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For instance, in the murder of Pamela George, Razack claims that George’s position as a sex tray worker made her not to be accredited as person as well as her being part of the breathing space that is away from collective justice, limited the degree to which the violence done to her corpse could be recognize and the accused held responsible for his actions (150). This means that the court system could not lay severe sentence to the two men who murdered George, because they behavior is justified by social hierarchy that placing the perpetrators in a position that ascribes them as victims. This is because Pamela George exposed herself to geographic areas that she was not part of. Based on the scrutiny of society attitude toward Pamela George’s murder, it is clear that the violence that happen to George, including her death becomes her forth because of her sexual …show more content…
These segregation have resulted in long standing inter-generational health consequences which has been a result of tremendous stress from the loose of family members, unsolved court cases due to negative social structures responses such as the courts systems and police as well as the white communities that shows less support toward aboriginal women. However, through the gain of consciousness native women come to realize that they must speak up to word violence against indigenous women in North
For instance, in the murder of Pamela George, Razack claims that George’s position as a sex tray worker made her not to be accredited as person as well as her being part of the breathing space that is away from collective justice, limited the degree to which the violence done to her corpse could be recognize and the accused held responsible for his actions (150). This means that the court system could not lay severe sentence to the two men who murdered George, because they behavior is justified by social hierarchy that placing the perpetrators in a position that ascribes them as victims. This is because Pamela George exposed herself to geographic areas that she was not part of. Based on the scrutiny of society attitude toward Pamela George’s murder, it is clear that the violence that happen to George, including her death becomes her forth because of her sexual …show more content…
These segregation have resulted in long standing inter-generational health consequences which has been a result of tremendous stress from the loose of family members, unsolved court cases due to negative social structures responses such as the courts systems and police as well as the white communities that shows less support toward aboriginal women. However, through the gain of consciousness native women come to realize that they must speak up to word violence against indigenous women in North