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Piercing Privilege: Confronting The White Problem Through Autoethnography, Destiny Marie Adams Cooper
Piercing Privilege: Confronting The White Problem Through Autoethnography, Destiny Marie Adams Cooper
LSU Master's Theses
In this reflexive autoethnography, the author explores the “White Problem” by examining narratives of personal transformation resulting from her involvement in Dialogue on Race Louisiana (DORLA), an “educational process for the elimination of race.” The main query of this piece is: How has the author’s relationship to whiteness worked to reify or trouble the “White Problem?” Using writing as a method of inquiry, the author recounts several pivotal experiences that correspond to DORLA’s Original Six Week Series session topics and exhibit personal transformations in her interpretations of racism. After defining the research process, design, and product in Chapter One, the …