Race, Space, and Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and the Built Environment (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series)

How race and space shape one another in profound and often contested ways. How does race shape the spaces we inhabit, and how do those spaces, in turn, shape our perception of race?This book addresses these questions by bringing cultural theory into dialogue with the practices of design, planning, and architecture.Edited by K. Ian Grandison and Marlon B. Ross, the essays in this collection argue that racial identity is never separate from the landscapes, infrastructures, and built environments that are so familiar that we often fail to see their ideological and economic implications. The first two chapters, authored by Grandison and Ross, frame the theory and methods of what they term "critical landscape studies" with case studies on historic preservation and gentrification, respectively.The other essays build on this approach from different interdisciplinary perspectives-investigating further how race is embedded in the processes of planning, preservation, and urban development, and h