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Over My Dead Body: Multicultural Social Cohesion In Veronica Mars, Debra Dudek

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This paper argues that Veronica Mars foregrounds the notion that multiculturalism is a "field of accumulating whiteness," to borrow Ghassan Hage's phrase, and that multicultural cohesion exists primarily when Brown and Black bodies gain cultural and symbolic capital by accumulating Whiteness.