Institutionalization of Racial Inequality in Local Political Geographies

Marsh, Ben; Parnell, Allan M.; Joyner, Ann Moss

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.31.5.691

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“…Responding to political pressure from affl uent stakeholders, cities often act to maintain neighborhood homogeneity, support affl uent and fast-growing areas of communities, and neglect poor or minority areas both within and adjacent to their boundaries. Their actions may come in the form of land use planning (large-lot or low-density zoning and building permit caps; Pendall, 2000), annexation ( municipal underbounding; Johnson, Parnell, Joyner, Christman, & Marsh, 2004), or capital investment ( failing to provide adequate infrastructure and services; Marsh, Parnell, & Joyner, 2010).…”

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Inequities in Long-Term Housing Recovery After Disasters

Peacock

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Zhang

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Journal of the American Planning Association

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Section: Increase Housing Choicementioning

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Inequities in Long-Term Housing Recovery After Disasters

Peacock

Zandt

Zhang

et al. 2014

Journal of the American Planning Association

269

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“…These conditions include selective enforcement of drinking water regulations, 15 noncompliance with federal standards, 16,17 inequities in access to funding, 18 and (the absence of) a community's political power in accessing a safe water supply. 19 Research has also shown that cost of service extension and low ability to pay drive inadequate service provision 2 ; that municipalities provide or deny access to basic services by determining which areas to annex or exclude from their city boundaries 4,10,20 ;…”

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The Drinking Water Disparities Framework: On the Origins and Persistence of Inequities in Exposure

2014

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With this article, we develop the Drinking Water Disparities Framework to explain environmental injustice in the context of drinking water in the United States. The framework builds on the social epidemiology and environmental justice literatures, and is populated with 5 years of field data (2005–2010) from California’s San Joaquin Valley. We trace the mechanisms through which natural, built, and sociopolitical factors work through state, county, community, and household actors to constrain access to safe water and to financial resources for communities. These constraints and regulatory failures produce social disparities in exposure to drinking water contaminants. Water system and household coping capacities lead, at best, to partial protection against exposure. This composite burden explains the origins and persistence of social disparities in exposure to drinking water contaminants.

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“…Even less-explored and seemingly race-neutral urban issues like municipal infrastructure (Marsh, Parnell, & Joyner, 2010), insurance (Squires, 1997), annexation (Johnson, Parnell, Joyner, Christman, & Marsh, 2004), districting (Kousser, 1999), zoning (Aoki, 1993(Aoki, , 1996, and taxes (Edsall & Edsall, 1992) have racial understandings and boundaries mapped onto them, both created by and reproducing our historical and present-day patterns of segregation. For that reason, when studying decision-making about resource allocation, neighborhood boundaries, or construction projects, scholars must attend to how racial inequality may be reproduced through the smooth functioning of everyday municipal business.…”

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Race, Power and Economic Extraction in Benton Harbor, MI

Seamster¹

2017

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My dissertation investigates twin financial interventions-urban development and emergency management-in a single small town. Once a thriving city drawing blacks as blue-collar workers during the Great Migration, Benton Harbor, Michigan has suffered from waves of out-migration, debt, and alleged poor management. BentonHarbor's emphasis on high-end economic development to attract white-collar workers and tourism, amidst the poverty, unemployment, and disenfranchisement of black residents, highlights an extreme case of American urban inequality. At the same time, many bystanders and representative observers argue that this urban redevelopment scheme and the city's takeover by the state represent Benton Harbor residents' only hope for a better life. I interviewed 44 key players and observers in local politics and development, attended 20 public meetings, conducted three months of observations, and collected extensive archival data. Examining Benton Harbor's time under emergency management and its luxury golf course development as two exemplars of a larger relationship, I find that the top-down processes allegedly intended to alleviate Benton Harbor's inequality actually reproduce and deepen the city's problems. I propose that the beneficiaries of both plans constitute a white urban regime active in Benton Harbor. I show how the white urban regime serves its interests by operating an extraction v machine in the city, which serves to reproduce local poverty and wealth by directing resources toward the white urban regime and away from the city.vi

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Institutionalization of Racial Inequality in Local Political Geographies

Cited by 55 publications

References 21 publications

Inequities in Long-Term Housing Recovery After Disasters

Inequities in Long-Term Housing Recovery After Disasters

The Drinking Water Disparities Framework: On the Origins and Persistence of Inequities in Exposure

Race, Power and Economic Extraction in Benton Harbor, MI

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