Towards a Bibliography of Critical Whiteness Studies
Race and Space
Dianne Harris
This bibliography includes works that examine the relationship between the social construction of race and the construction of the built environment (architecture, urban space, landscapes), focusing primarily on the United States. Although spatial theories have received increased scholarly attention in recent years, the processes by which notions of race and difference are delineated, confirmed, and understood in the built realm remain under-examined. The studies included herein address these questions along with the consequences of those processes.
The bibliography includes published works that emphasize the material (read "built") dimensions of race and the ideological power that resides therein. It includes writings by architectural historians, landscape historians, art historians, anthropologists, geographers, urban historians, scholars from ethnic studies, cultural studies, and African-American studies, among others. Because this is a relatively new area of inquiry, it includes works that focus more broadly on race since few studies exist that focus exclusively on whiteness and space.
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