Whither Whiteness? The Racial Logics of the Kerner Report and Modern White Space

Hughey, Matthew W.

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“…My research suggests that override tools such as 40B create a momentary challenge to these exclusionary spaces that generate minimal compliance but continued resistance. The deraced nature of zoning and the strategic racial silence of 40B match white views that racial segregation is either a feature of the past or associated with individual prejudice, rather than reconciling the ways it is part of our everyday local governance (Hughey 2018). This can continue what Angela Simms (2023) calls "color callous" racism, that is, an ongoing evading of reckoning with the processes that facilitate white economic advantage.…”

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Getting Suburbs to Do Their Fair Share: Housing Exclusion and Local Response to State Interventions

Girouard

2023

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Against a backdrop of calls for regional coordination and federal and state interventions into these local exclusionary regimes, this study analyzes a longer than fifty-year experiment in overriding zoning to create affordable housing in the suburbs (Berube 2019;Rothwell and Massey 2009, 2010). In 1969, Massachusetts enacted Chapter 40B, a law that requires every town to have at least 10 percent of affordable housing stock-defined as developments re-

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Getting Suburbs to Do Their Fair Share: Housing Exclusion and Local Response to State Interventions

Girouard

2023

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How Blackness Matters in White Lives

Hughey

2021

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Since the birth of "Black Lives Matter" in 2013 there has emerged a broad spectrum of public discourse about, and scholarship examining, the movement. Within this diverse conversation, some have concentrated on the supposed growth of White support for racial equality in general and Black Lives Matter in specific. Yet, within this scholarly corpus, there is no examination of White engagement with Black Lives Matter from a symbolic interactionist lens. Moreover, while there is focus on a seemingly mounting chorus of White voices who loudly proclaim support for the movement, few have examined how varied White expectations, silences, and actions speak louder than these words. Based on ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews, and content analysis data collected over 2014-2020 from two different all-White groups in the New England region of the United States, the relationship between White identity formation and White interpretations of the Black Lives Matter movement is analyzed.

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A culture of whiteness: How integration failed in cities, suburbs, and small towns

Walton

2021

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As America's neighborhoods have become more racially diverse in the last half century, are these shared spaces fulfilling the "promise of integration"? In this study, I review the literature on desegregation as it occurs in urban, suburban, and rural places, illuminating how a culture of whiteness works in each of these types of places to reproduce racial domination.The literature on multiethnic urban areas demonstrates how a culture of whiteness reframes gentrification as 'revitalization' and nostalgia, which result in social control and cultural displacement of non-white residents. In suburban places, I draw out the ways a culture of whiteness is expressed as 'niceness' and 'governmentality' , resulting in symbolic exclusion and forced assimilation of people of color. Finally, in rural places, a culture of whiteness uses narratives of 'pollution' and 'parasitism' to understand often low-income migrants of color, which renders them invisible and reproduces their structural disadvantage in the community. Revealing the subtle and obscure mechanisms through which a culture of whiteness reproduces racial domination in diverse places ultimately provides the key to their undoing and opens the door to the promise of integration.

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Whither Whiteness? The Racial Logics of the Kerner Report and Modern White Space

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Getting Suburbs to Do Their Fair Share: Housing Exclusion and Local Response to State Interventions

Getting Suburbs to Do Their Fair Share: Housing Exclusion and Local Response to State Interventions

How Blackness Matters in White Lives

A culture of whiteness: How integration failed in cities, suburbs, and small towns

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