Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Abstract

• Marijuana legalization has provided vast opportunities for economic advancement and job growth within a number of US states. However, despite these gains, many argue that the legal marijuana industry has left behind those most impacted by prohibition. This project seeks to explore relationship between the legal marijuana industry, gentrification and whiteness. Data for this project was collected through an examination of 60 marijuana related advertisements sourced within magazines around the Denver and Boulder metro areas, as well as interviews with 20 primarily White identifying marijuana consumers. Using Schulman’s (2012) definition of gentrification, this work seeks to further scholarly understandings of gentrification as a process that occurs not only within the physical make-up of space, but also within the ideological space of the mind.

Creator

• Mabee, Carmen

Date Awarded

• 2019-01-01

Academic Affiliation

• Sociology

Advisor

• Brown, Dr. Matthew

Committee Member

• Holmes, Dr. Kwame
• Desan, Dr. Mathieu

Granting Institution

• University of Colorado Boulder

Subject

• Gentrification
• Race
• Neoliberalism
• Whiteness
• Marijuana
• Property

Last Modified

• 2019-12-02

Resource Type

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

Language

• English [eng]

Relationships

In Collection:

• Arts and Sciences Honors Program

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