Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Humanities: Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture
Reader 1
Andrew Aisenberg
Reader 2
Kimberly Drake
Rights Information
2020 Margaret Gill
Abstract
In these four essays I explore the idea that milk’s popularity has declined in the 2010s, particularly in the post-2016 era, because it carries associations with an unpleasant and dangerous kind of capitalism, and an unpleasant and dangerous kind of white identity. What I am calling “unpleasant associations”, for a consumer who is interested in the welfare of people, animals and the planet, include recent scientific interest in how food production affects climate change, the relationship dairy milk makes visible between animal welfare, human health and economic drive to maximize profit, and the recent adoption of milk as a symbol of white supremacy.
Recommended Citation
Gill, Margaret, "Hard to Stomach: The Cultural Politics of Milk in the American 2010s" (2020). Scripps Senior Theses. 1538.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1538
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
