An Autoethnography of Whiteness in Three Urban Alternative Food and Environmental Organizations
Strich, Elli Sol
2023
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This thesis is a collection of experiences and memories of working at three different alternative food organizations over the past three years. While different in scope and focus, these organizations are all white-led nonprofits serving predominantly BIPOC communities. Tracing from the beginning of the pandemic to two years later, unearthing and revisiting these memories with the purpose of ... read moreunderstanding them through a critical race theory lens and a focus on whiteness has been a cyclical and reflexive process. I was guided by the questions “what is ‘alternative’ about white-led alternative environmental and food organizations?” and “how does whiteness shape and define these ‘alternative visions’ of the dominant food system that are constructed within these organizations?”. Rather than seek out concrete answers, I wrote with the intention of exploring the nuances and complexities of these questions, specifically through their relations to my own experiences. To do so, I relied on using critical autoethnography, leaning into this framework with an understanding that embodied experience could offer something that could not be found in other methods of analysis.
Thesis (B.A.)--Tufts University, 2023.
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