Citation

Glass PG. Ethn. Racial Stud. 2017; 40(14): 2520-2538.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01419870.2016.1247974

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

While researchers frequently link the construction of racial meanings with the construction of spatial meanings, studies of race have paid little attention to how other forms of space making affect racial divisions. This study, based on interviews collected while residents of Ogden, Utah travelled around their city, explores how collective attachments to place intersect with racialized divisions of it. Residents saw their community as divided into good (white) and bad (people of colour) areas. Yet, they also united as residents to defend the city against negative assessments. These multiple and shifting understandings, simultaneously dividing and uniting the city, suggest that other forms of spatial meaning making can challenge racialized definitions of space.

Language: en

Keywords

Community and urban; culture; place attachment; race and ethnicity; sense of place; space and place