How racism takes place

Lipsitz, George. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781439902561 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781439902554 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1439902550 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1439902569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781439902578 (e-book)
ISBN: 1439902577 (e-book)
Physical Description: print
vi, 310 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.