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Blanquiando: My Mother's Passing, Diana Putterman
Blanquiando: My Mother's Passing, Diana Putterman
Master of Arts in Humanities | Master's Theses 1936 - 2022
This thesis is an attempt to heal the wounds of my family’s matrilineal line left behind by the effects of our racialized world. It is a depiction of how life’s twists and turns ultimately created a collision of race and cultures within a single family. My mother, Violeta Estel Garcia Putterman, was born into poverty in the Dominican Republic to a black woman from St. Kitts and a Chinese man. This vivacious, and exotically beautiful girl’s life took a positive turn when an older, married, white American sugar plantation engineer took a romantic interest in her as a 15-year old …
Classism, Ableism, And The Rise Of Epistemic Injustice Against White, Working-Class Men, Sarah E. Bostic
Classism, Ableism, And The Rise Of Epistemic Injustice Against White, Working-Class Men, Sarah E. Bostic
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In this thesis, I illustrate how epistemic injustice functions in the divide between white working-class men and the educated elite by discussing the discursive ways in which working-class knowledge and experience are devalued as legitimate sources of knowledge. I demonstrate this by using critical discourse analysis to interpret the underlying attitudes and ideologies in comments made by Clinton and Trump during their 2016 presidential campaigns. I also discuss how these ideologies are positively or negatively perceived by Trump’s working-class base. Using feminist standpoint theory and phenomenology as a lens of interpretation, I argue that white working-class men are increasingly alienated …