Whiteness, Anti-Blackness and Urban Development I: Aesthetics and Erasures
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/26/2022
Start Time: 11:20 AM
End Time: 12:40 PM
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Sponsor Group(s):
Urban Geography Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Taylor Shelton
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, Wenfei Xu
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Chairs(s):
Scott Markley, University of Georgia
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Description:
It is now generally acknowledged amongst geographers and other urban scholars that understanding the history and evolution of the American city is inextricable from understanding the history and evolution of racism. This pair of sessions provides a historical perspective on the ways that urban development in the United States has been persistently driven by anti-Black racism and, simultaneously, the assertion of whiteness as the norm for how urban space should be structured and governed. Drawing from both qualitative and quantitative studies of how whiteness and anti-Blackness have been infused in a variety of urban processes - from mortgage lending to architectural design and infrastructural development to urban renewal - these sessions bring together papers that elucidate the fundamentally racialized processes that shape the North American city and its changes over time.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Sara Black, University of Georgia; “But I’m a woodworker:” confronting aesthetics of innocence with incommensurability in the gentrifying Hudson Valley |
Taylor Shelton, Georgia State University; Making the Cotton District (white): the displacement of blackness from the first new urbanist neighborhood |
Joshua Mullenite, ; Whiteness, Infrastructure, and the Haunted Landscapes of the Florida Everglades |
Katherine Hankins, Georgia State University; Plural whitenesses: competing place identities in Little Five Points, Atlanta, USA |
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Whiteness, Anti-Blackness and Urban Development I: Aesthetics and Erasures
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Taylor Shelton - johntaylorshelton@gmail.com
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