Circling the Herd
Houston’s Black Trail Riders, Placemaking, and the Liberatory Potential of Second Sites
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12765701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leah Binkovitz (Rice University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 270-289 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City and Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-6841 • E-ISSN: 1540-6040 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/15356841221084263 |
| OpenAlex | W4225896698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 36 |
Recent scholarship on Black placemaking challenges the deficit framework of urban sociology. At the same time, more sociologists are now pushing for the recovery of long marginalized Black thinkers. This article advances both efforts. It begins by extending Du Bois’ idea of “second sight” to illuminate the critical and creative practices of “second site” production, conceptualized here as a communal process that reimagines and celebrates the centrality of Black communities in the ongoing, contested production of urban spaces. It then demonstrates that process through a case study of Houston’s Black trail riders, using evidence from 21 interviews and observations of rides and gatherings to detail the material and nonmaterial dimensions of second site production through space, place, and time. Results show how, despite urban development that attempts to marginalize Black communities, the trail riders intentionally create a second site that challenges the dominant spatial regime in durable and flexible ways
Centrality · Civil engineering · Gentrification · Placemaking · Political science · Scholarship · Sight · Sociology · Urban design · Urban planning · Engineering · Law · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Closer to freedom
Bulldozer Revolutions
Stuck in Place
Urban Fortunes
Development Arrested
Black Metropolis
W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Heterogeneity
Seeds of Empire
This Ain't Chicago
The Philadelphia Negro
Black Feminist Thought
Adaptive liminality
Studying Black Student Life on Campus
The Scholar Denied
The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race
Creative extraction
Compounding Inequalities
The duality of space
Houston Bound
On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place
Invisible Houston
Learning from the Outsider Within
Performing Black life
Indigenous people don't have boundaries
Black Placemaking
Snowball Sampling
The Sociology of Urban Black America
The Philadelphia Negroand the Canon of Classical Urban Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |