Righting What's Left
Righting What's Left
Meg Hansen
Vermont's White(ness) Problem
26 minutes Posted Aug 13, 2019 at 7:26 pm.
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Cultural and political elites are convinced that Vermont has a white(ness) problem, alleging that the specter of systemic racism (i.e. white supremacy) perpetually haunts the Green Mountain State. This episode examines the academic roots of this pernicious ideology and examples of its consequences in public life today.
Vanderbeck, Robert M. "Vermont and the Imaginative Geographies of American Whiteness."
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4124437?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents