White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America

Race, Place, and Space
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3543-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

This book examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies.

The author focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Political Report Partisan Voting Index, is the most liberal district in the state and 15th in the United States of America. The book uses settler colonialism and critical race theory to explore how self-identified progressive White residents perceive their gentrifying neighborhood and how they make sense of their positionality.

Using the extended case method, as well as in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis and visual/media analysis, the author reveals how systemic racialized inequality persists even in a politically progressive borough.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Montalva Barba, Miguel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Hidden in Plain Sight

1. Jamaica Plain and Gentrification in Motion

2. Remaking Whiteness

3. Reproducing Whiteness via its Disavowal

4. Community and Diversity

5. “Don’t talk to me about Race, Talk to People of Color”

Conclusion: Gensosiocide

Über Autor(innen)

Miguel Montalva Barba is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston.