Race and the Making of Southeast San Francisco: Towards a Theory of Race-Class

被引:20
作者
Brahinsky, Rachel [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
关键词
race; class; race-class; urban renewal; redevelopment; San Francisco; Bayview-Hunter's Point; RACISM; CITY;
D O I
10.1111/anti.12050
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
San Francisco is engaged in a redevelopment project that could bring millions in investment and community benefits to a starved neighborhoodand yet the project is embedded in an urban development process that is displacing residents. In trying to unsettle these contradictions, this paper achieves two aims. First, I unearth a little known history of redevelopment activism that frames debate around the current project. Second, I use this history to argue for a reframing of the language of race. To wit: although the social construction of race and racism is well established, race is still deeply understood in everyday life as natural. This paper offers a theoretical fusing of race and class, race-class, to help us think race through a vital constructionist lens. Race-class makes present the economic dynamics of racial formation, and foregrounds that race is a core process of urban political economy. Race-class works both top-down and ground-up. While it is a vehicle for capital's exploitation of people and place, race-class also emerges as a mode of power for racialized working-class residents.
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页码:1258 / 1276
页数:19
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