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Dissertation
Inaccessible: How Structural Inequalities, Isolation, and Neglect Impact a Rural Minority-Majority County in Northern New Mexico
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006313
Abstract
Inaccessible illustrates the impact of structural inequality, isolation, and neglect on Taos County, New Mexico, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This work explores the ways in which structural inequalities work against a racialized minority, impacting this community’s ability to react to modern threats. From gentrification to COVID-19, this dissertation highlights the ways in which the Hispanic and Latine people in Taos County, New Mexico are being displaced while a growing and wealthier white community grapples with the barriers to modern life that people who consider the Sangre de Christos as ancestral land say is a way of life. Additionally, this dissertation presents a strong challenge to existing ideas around rural disaster preparedness, examining an over reliance on social capital while focusing on the real impact that a lack of infrastructure has during a disaster. Zeroing in on access to aid programs, healthcare, information, and transportation this dissertation illustrates a community severely underserved in numerous ways. As a whole the work is a challenge to the assimilation literature, showing that that racialization of Hispanic and Latine people is what leads to the kinds of experiences discussed throughout this body of work and therefore bigger barriers than language need to be addressed.
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- Title
- Inaccessible
- Creators
- Morgan Rachelle Montanez
- Contributors
- Jennifer Sherman (Advisor)Dylan Bugden (Committee Member)Ana Zamora (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Sociology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 243
- Identifiers
- 99901086722501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation