EPISODE · Aug 13, 2019 · 26 MIN
Vermont's White(ness) Problem
from Righting What's Left · host Meg Hansen
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
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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
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