dc.contributor.advisor | Torres, Theresa L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Debra K | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2019 Fall | |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page viewed January 27, 2020 | |
dc.description | Dissertation advisor: Theresa Torres | |
dc.description | Vita | |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (page 281-321) | |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Department of Sociology, Department of History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2019 | |
dc.description.abstract | This inter-disciplinary dissertation utilizes sociological and historical research methods for a critical comparative analysis of the material culture as reproduced through murals and monuments located in two counties in Missouri, Bates County and Cass County. Employing Critical Race Theory as the theoretical framework, each counties’ analysis results are examined. The concepts of race, systemic racism, White privilege and interest-convergence are used to assess both counties continuance of sustaining a racially imbalanced historical narrative. I posit that the construction of history of Bates County and Cass County continues to influence and reinforces systemic racism in the local narrative.
Keywords: critical race theory, race, racism, social construction of reality, white privilege, normality, interest-convergence | |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Introduction -- The historical context: understanding the troubled past -- The standard: Cass County -- The exception: Bates County -- Critical Race Theory analysis of murals and monuments -- Where to go from here -- Appendix A. Mural/monument analysis worksheet -- Appendix B. Primary texts analysis worksheet | |
dc.format.extent | xiii, 322 pages | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/71102 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Racism -- Missouri -- Cass County -- History | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Racism -- Missouri -- Bates County -- History | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Missouri -- Race relations | |
dc.subject.other | Dissertation -- University of Missouri--Kansas City -- Sociology | |
dc.subject.other | Dissertation -- University of Missouri--Kansas City -- History | |
dc.title | Whitewashing or amnesia: a study of the construction of race in two Midwestern counties | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Sociology (UMKC) | |
thesis.degree.discipline | History (UMKC) | |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Kansas City | |
thesis.degree.level | Ph.D. | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) | |