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[email protected] BETWEEN THE LIVING AND THE DEAD by LAURA HENRIKSEN A master’s thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Liberal Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, The City University of New York 2019 2019 © 2019 LAURA HENRIKSEN All Rights Reserved ii Between The Living And The Dead by Laura Henriksen This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Liberal Studies in satisfaction of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Arts. ___________________________ ______________________________ _____ Date Jean Halley Thesis Advisor ___________________________ ______________________________ _____ Date Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis Executive Officer THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii ABSTRACT Between The Living And The Dead by Laura Henriksen Advisor: Jean Halley Throughout my studies at the Graduate Center, I have attempted to deepen my understanding of how some people, such as myself and my family, came to be white, and what that means, and how it can be undone. This question of whiteness has pushed me further back ontologically, or deeper down, to include how some people came to be human, and then even further, how some matter came to be living.