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Structures of indifference : an indigenous life and death in a Canadian city

McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, 1974- author, Perry, Adele, author

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\"Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. His death reflects a particular structure of indifference born of and maintained by colonialism. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death. Structures of Indifference completes the story left untold by the inquiry into Sinclair's death, the 2014 report of which omitted any consideration of underlying factors, including racism and systemic discrimination.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Subject: Sinclair, Brian, 1963-2008 Death and burial. / Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg, Man.) / Ojibwa Indians Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Métis Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Medical personnel Malpractice Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Racism in medicine Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Racism Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Race discrimination Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Malpractice Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Hospitals Manitoba Winnipeg Administration Case studies. / Indigenous peoples Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Multiculturalism Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Race relations Case studies. / Health and race Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Discrimination in medical care Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Health Social aspects Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Medical care Manitoba Winnipeg Case studies. / Winnipeg (Man.) Race relations Case studies. / Winnipeg (Man.) Ethnic relations Case studies. / Manitoba Race relations Case studies. / Manitoba Ethnic relations Case studies.
• ISBN: 9780887558351

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