White Space(s) and the Reproduction of White Supremacy. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Embrick, David G.; Moore, Wendy Leo
• Other Names: Embrick David G. guest-editor.; Moore Wendy Leo guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: American behavioral scientist. Volume 64:Number 14(2020)
• Page Start: 1935
• Page End: 1945
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: White space -- White supremacy -- racism -- White imaginary -- police brutality; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; 300
• DOI: 10.1177/0002764220975053
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0002-7642

Abstract

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.