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" You Don't Know What You Don't Know: "
Christie, Jacqueline Lisa
Rabig, Julia
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1106657
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TLpq2407620652
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Christie, Jacqueline Lisa
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Rabig, Julia
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You Don't Know What You Don't Know:\ Christie, Jacqueline LisaRabig, Julia
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Dartmouth College
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2020
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2020
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M.A.L.S.
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164
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| Abstract
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Headlines across United States highlight the number of Black Americans killed by police officers and the Black Lives Matter protests that follow. Media accounts echo the rhetoric of a president who degrades Blacks, immigrants, Mexicans, and Muslims. They discuss issues in Native American places, such as Standing Rock, and Latino spaces on the southern US border. Rarely do these headlines speak about incidences in Northern New England, making it easy to think that racism only happens elsewhere and that people of color do not experience it here. This is not the case. Through structured interviews with twenty-eight individuals around the themes of identity formation, white privilege, overt and subtle racism, feelings of inferiority and anger, coping strategies, fears and hopes, and finally white accountability, this thesis explores the experiences of people of color living in the white spaces surrounding Dartmouth and Middlebury Colleges. They show that being a person of color in Northern New England is fraught with daily negotiations and frequent traumas. While perhaps physically safe, people of color are often not psychologically safe living here. Their stories are embedded in social science scholarship, literature, and primary sources on race and identity to ensure that they are not dismissed exceptions. They depict forms of racial exclusion and discrimination that are familiar to people of color but remain unacknowledged by white people comfortable in their putatively progressive spaces. I am forever humbled and grateful that these individuals trusted me to hold their stories. I thank them all for their honesty, their help, and their good wishes. I hope I have done their experiences justice. I thank you for reading their stories. I hope the stories move us all to compassionate and empathetic thinking as well as necessary action.
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Education
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Regional studies
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Social research
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