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.
Journal
The Looking Glass : New Perspectives on Children's LiteratureISSN
1551-5680Volume
11Issue
1Publisher
La Trobe UniversitySection Title
Alice's AcademyAuthor Biography
Debra Dudek received her PhD in literature from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. At present, she is a Research Fellow at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she works collaboratively on an ARC-funded project, which analyses multiculturalism and Children's Literature. She has published internationally on Children's Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and Comparative Literature.Date Created
2007-12-20Rights Statement
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