How Racism Takes Place

Name: How Racism Takes Place
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ISBN: 9781439902561

ISBN-10: 1439902569

ISBN-13: 9781439902561

Edition: 2011

Authors: George Lipsitz

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White identity in the United States is place bound, asserts George Lipsitz in How Racism Takes Place. An influential scholar in American and racial studies, Lipsitz contends that racism persists because a network of practices skew opportunities and life chances along racial lines. That is, these practices assign people of different races to different spaces and therefore allow grossly unequal access to education, employment, transportation, and shelter.Revealing how seemingly race-neutral urban sites contain hidden racial assumptions and imperatives, Lipsitz examines the ways in which urban space and social experience are racialized and emphasizesthat aggrieved communities do not passively…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 3/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction: Race, Place, and Power



Social Imaginaries and Social Relations



The White Spatial Imaginary



The Black Spatial Imaginary



Spectatorship and Citizenship



Space, Sports, and Spectatorship in St. Louis



The Crime The Wire Couldn't Name: Social Decay and Cynical Detachment in Baltimore


A Bridge for This Book Weapons of the Weak and Weapons of the Strong



Visible Archives



Horace Tapscott and the World Stage in Los Angeles



John Biggers and Project Row Houses in Houston



Invisible Archives



Betye Saar's Los Angeles and Paule Marshall's Brooklyn



Something Left to Love: Lorraine Hansberry's Chicago



Race and Place Today



New Orleans Today We Know This Place



A Place Where Everybody Is Somebody


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index