Over My Dead Body: Multicultural Social Cohesion in Veronica Mars

  • Debra Dudek Deakin University

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.

Author Biography

Debra Dudek, Deakin University
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.
Published
2007-12-20
Section
Alice's Academy