Book contents
- The City in American Literature and Culture
- Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
- The City in American Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- City Spaces
- City Lives
- Theory in the City
- Chapter 16 The Spatial Turn and Critical Race Studies
- Chapter 17 From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence
- Chapter 18 Security Theory
- Chapter 19 Posthuman Cities
- Chapter 20 Critical Regionalism
- Coda City and Polis
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 16 - The Spatial Turn and Critical Race Studies
from Theory in the City
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2021
- The City in American Literature and Culture
- Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
- The City in American Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- City Spaces
- City Lives
- Theory in the City
- Chapter 16 The Spatial Turn and Critical Race Studies
- Chapter 17 From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence
- Chapter 18 Security Theory
- Chapter 19 Posthuman Cities
- Chapter 20 Critical Regionalism
- Coda City and Polis
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter puts Marxist geography in dialogue with scholarship in critical ethnic studies in order to provide a critical basis for studying the urban geographies of racial capitalism. It focuses on work in black, Chicanx, and indigenous studies that has nuanced and extended the “spatial turn” introduced by scholars such as David Harvey, Neil Smith, Doreen Massey, and Cindi Katz. Discussions of gendered black geographies (Sylvia Wynter, Katherine McKittrick, and Rashad Shabazz), indigenous geographies (Laura Furlan), and Latinx geographies (Mary Pat Brady, Raúl Homero Villa) contextualize the stakes of urban literature by black, Chicanx, and indigenous authors such as Marita Bonner, Danez Smith, Helena María Viramontes, and Tommy Orange.
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- The City in American Literature and Culture , pp. 261 - 275Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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