Week 11 (3/25) – Race: A spatial project (UL)
Course Access Dates: Students from 12/19/2020 until 4/28/2024; Faculty from 7/22/2020 until 4/28/2024
Section outline
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We see racial difference reflected in space, but can the geography of our society actually produce racial identities?
Read:
Delaney, D. (2002). The space that race makes. The Professional Geographer, 54(1), 6–14.
Lipsitz, G. (2007). The racialization of space and the spatialization of race. Landscape Journal, 26(1), 10–23.
Field journal UL-5: Is Brookland a racialized space? A white space? A black space? How do you know? What evidence can you provide (descriptive or photographic)? Look up and report the racial demographics of the neighborhood using statisticalatlas.com. In the reading for today, Delaney writes: “[E]lements of the social (race, gender, and so on) are not simply reflected in spatial arrangements; rather, spatialities are regarded as constituting and/or reinforcing aspects of the social” (p. 7). And Lipsitz writes: “The lived experience of race has a spatial dimension, and the lived experience of space has a racial dimension” (p. 12). What do these statements mean? What are examples from your own experience that might demonstrate these dynamics?
Due by 11:00am:
The neighborhood in economic space. Submit on Moodle. (UL)