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| Document Type: | Book |
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George Lipsitz |
| ISBN: | 9781439902554 1439902550 9781439902561 1439902569 9781439902578 1439902577 |
| OCLC Number: | 662400108 |
| Description: | vi, 310 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | George Lipsitz. |
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"Veteran scholar Lipsitz provides another deeply probing look at US racism...Lipsitz provides original analyses of urban development in St. Louis (a football stadium) and a television series (The Wire) on Baltimore to show how such activities obscure links between institutionalized racism and urban space--including urban poverty and predatory lending--in front of unreflective observers... Summing Up: Highly Recommended." Choice "This book strengthens Lipsitz's position as one of the major contributors to theoretical and historical works on race... In powerful and compelling writing, Lipsitz examines the problems...and provides insights into the broad context and multiple factors that shape the ways race continues to work in society." Journal of American History, September 2012 "This big-hearted and incisive book reveals how policies and practices related to the demarcation, commodification, and valuation of urban space reinforce hierarchies of race and class... This work both painstakingly documents the ways in which the white spatial imaginary excludes people, and particularly women, of color, even as it seduces them with promises of upward mobility and consumer citizenship... [T]he book mounts a powerful challenge to the recent justifications of racialized inequalities through revanchist scientific racism or the various 'culture of poverty' concepts." - Contemporary Sociology Read more...
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