Over my dead body: Multicultural social cohesion in Veronica Mars

Authors

Debra Dudek, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

23913

Publication Details

Dudek, D. (2007). Over my dead body: Multicultural social cohesion in Veronica Mars. The Looking Glass: new perspectives in children's literature, 11 (1).

Abstract

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.