TY - JOUR
T1 - Making space, making race
T2 - Reconstituting white privilege in buckhead, Atlanta
AU - Hankins, Katherine B.
AU - Cochran, Robert
AU - Derickson, Kate Driscoll
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - The comfortable relationship between the overwhelmingly white, southern Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead and a major hub of nightlife in the region unraveled in the early 2000s as the entire nightclub cluster was delegitimized, discursively constructed as dangerous and out of control, and ultimately razed to make space for luxury shopping. This paper sets out to query what social and Cultural relations account for this massive and unpredicted reconfiguration of urban space in the epicenter of wealth, whiteness, and power in Atlanta. By mobilizing the concept of the socio-spatial dialectic (Soja 1980, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 70: 207-225), we draw on Pulido’s (2000, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90: 12-40) work on the construction and perpetuation of white privilege to argue that the racialized production of space is a relevant framework for understanding the processes at work in Buckhead. We argue that race was an unstated but deeply important social relation shaping the process by which this particular space was remade. In so doing, we seek to advance the literature on whiteness by demonstrating the ways in which it articulates with the political economy of cities in the present conjuncture.
AB - The comfortable relationship between the overwhelmingly white, southern Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead and a major hub of nightlife in the region unraveled in the early 2000s as the entire nightclub cluster was delegitimized, discursively constructed as dangerous and out of control, and ultimately razed to make space for luxury shopping. This paper sets out to query what social and Cultural relations account for this massive and unpredicted reconfiguration of urban space in the epicenter of wealth, whiteness, and power in Atlanta. By mobilizing the concept of the socio-spatial dialectic (Soja 1980, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 70: 207-225), we draw on Pulido’s (2000, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90: 12-40) work on the construction and perpetuation of white privilege to argue that the racialized production of space is a relevant framework for understanding the processes at work in Buckhead. We argue that race was an unstated but deeply important social relation shaping the process by which this particular space was remade. In so doing, we seek to advance the literature on whiteness by demonstrating the ways in which it articulates with the political economy of cities in the present conjuncture.
KW - Atlanta
KW - Buckhead
KW - Race
KW - Racialization
KW - Urban political economy
KW - White privilege
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U2 - 10.1080/14649365.2012.688851
DO - 10.1080/14649365.2012.688851
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866857255
SN - 1464-9365
VL - 13
SP - 379
EP - 397
JO - Social and Cultural Geography
JF - Social and Cultural Geography
IS - 4
ER -