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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827078103321

Autore

Lipsitz George

Titolo

How racism takes place / / George Lipsitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-299-83377-2

1-4399-0257-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

African Americans - Economic conditions

African Americans - Social conditions

Human geography - United States

Income distribution - United States

Racism - Economic aspects - United States

United States Race relations

United States Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Race, Place, and Power; Sectiom 1: Social Imaginaries and Social Relations; 1. The White Spatial Imaginary; 2. The Black Spatial Imaginary; Section II: Spectatorship and Citizenship; 3. Space, Sports, and Spectatorship in St. Louis; 4. 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; Section III: Visible Archives; 5. Horace Tapscott and the World Stage in Los Angeles; 6. John Biggers and Project Row Houses in Houston; Sectiom IV: Invisible Archives

7. Betye Saar's Los Angeles and Paule Marshall's Brooklyn8. Something Left to Love: Lorraine Hansberry's Chicago; Section V: Race and Place Today; 9. New Orleans Today: We Know This Place; 10. A Place Where Everybody Is Somebody; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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