How Racism Takes Place

George Lipsitz



White identity in the United States is place bound, asserts George Lipsitz in How Racism Takes Place. An influential scholar in American and racial studies, Lipsitz contends that racism persists because a network of practices skew opportunities and life chances along racial lines. That is, these practices assign people of different races to different spaces and therefore allow grossly unequal access to education, employment, transportation, and shelter.

Revealing how seemingly race-neutral urban sites contain hidden racial assumptions and imperatives, Lipsitz examines the ways in which urban space and social experience are racialized and emphasizes that aggrieved communities do not passively acquiesce to racism. He recognizes the people and communities that have reimagined segregated spaces in expressive culture as places for congregation.

How Racism Takes Place not only exposes the degree to which this white spatial imagining structures our society but also celebrates the black artists and activists who struggle to create a just and decent society.

Contents

Introduction: Race, Place, and Power

SECTION I: Social Imaginaries and Social Relations
1. The White Spatial Imaginary
2. The Black Spatial Imaginary

SECTION II: Spectatorship and Citizenship
3. Space, Sports, and Spectatorship in St. Louis
4. 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

SECTION III: Visible Archives
5. Horace Tapscott and the World Stage in Los Angeles
6. John Biggers and Project Row Houses in Houston

SECTION IV: Invisible Archives
7. Betye Saar’s Los Angeles and Paule Marshall’s Brooklyn
8. Something Left to Love: Lorraine Hansberry’s Chicago

SECTION V: Race and Place Today
9. New Orleans Today: We Know This Place
10. A Place Where Everybody Is Somebody

Notes
Acknowledgments
Index



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