How racism takes place
By: George Lipsitz
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781439902554; 9781439902561; 9781439902578
Subjects: Race relations; Economic conditions; Income distribution; Social conditions; African Americans; Racism; Human geography
Description: Argues that racism continues to the present day due to practices that force different racial groups into specific areas, where such commodities as education, transportation, and jobs are unevenly distributed to the residents based on the area.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: race, place, and power; title: Social imaginaries and social relations; title: The white spatial imaginary; title: The Black spatial imaginary; title: Spectatorship and citizenship; title: Space, sports, and spectatorship in St. Louis; title: The crime The wire couldn't name : social decay and cynical detachment in Baltimore; title: A bridge for this book; title: Weapons of the weak and weapons of the strong; title: Visible archives; title: Horace Tapscott and the world stage in Los Angeles; title: John Biggers and project row houses in Houston; title: Invisible archives; title: Betye Saar's Los Angeles and Paule Marshall's Brooklyn; title: Something left to love : Lorraine Hansberry's Chicago; title: Race and place today; title: New Orleans today : we know this place; title: A place where everybody is somebody.