White Space(s) and the Reproduction of White Supremacy

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ID3756708
AuthorsDavid G Embrick (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA), David Embrick (0000-0002-4380-053X, University of Connecticut, corresponding author), William L Moore (0000-0003-4244-9300, Texas A&M University), Wendy Leo Moore (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA)
Year2020
Volume64
Issue14
Pages1935-1945
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764220975053
OpenAlexW3111858645
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited22

In the past two decades, social scientists have begun to explicitly interrogate the racialized economic, political, cultural, and ideological mechanisms of social space. This work interrogates the overt and covert racial organization of social spaces and the ways in which systemic White supremacy is facilitated by racialized space. Drawing on and synthesizing that work we explicate a critical theory of White space, explicating how geographical, physical, cultural, and ideological social spaces reproduce a racialized social structure organized by White supremacy. We argue that White spaces are integral to racialized social systems and global anti-Black racism in ways that not only normalize the existing racial and social order but ensures Whites' fantasy(ies) of complete dominion over place and space, as well as control over brown and Black bodies

Covert · Critical race theory · Fantasy · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Racism · Reproduction · Social order · Social space · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · White (mutation) · White supremacy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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