Chocolate Suburb, Vanilla Power
Race, Space and Civil Unrest in Ferguson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10892126 |
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| Authors | Chanhaeng Lee (0000-0002-7602-248X, Sungkyunkwan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 3-20 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Studies in Scandinavia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-8060 • E-ISSN: 0044-8060 |
| Publisher | Copenhagen Business School (PUBLISHER • DK) |
| DOI | 10.22439/asca.v50i2.5775 |
| OpenAlex | W2970180339 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In this article, I argue that the demographic and political restructuring of city−suburb dynamics in the United States is key to understanding what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014. Ferguson, a once-vanilla suburb where the overwhelming majority of residents were white Americans, was deterritorialized from the 1970s onward into a suburb where black Americans became the majority group. However, the whites, as a demographic minority, were still in control and tried to reterritorialize the black suburb. I maintain that the inevitable result of this disjunction between the chocolate suburb and vanilla power was racial antagonism, which exploded in Ferguson in 2014
Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Race (biology · Restructuring · Sociology · Unrest · White (mutation · Demography · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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