Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index.
Contents:
ch. 8 Imagining Another Way to Live in the City Confronting Spatialized Whiteness in Urban Greening Initiatives. ch. 2 Creating White Public Space in the Urban Food System Institutionalized Understandings of Race and Space in Kansas City -- ch. 3 Getting a Seat at the Table White Local "Foodies" and Green Urban Development Policy -- ch. 4 "Don't You Know You Live in a Food Desert?": Food Charity Programming and the Lived Realities of Seeking Food Aid in Kansas City -- ch. 5 "We Know We're Being Treated Like Tokens": Black Urban Farmers Navigating and Contesting Structural Racism in Kansas City's Local Food Economy -- ch. 6 "Apparently We Grow Culturally Appropriate Food in That" Green Urban Citizenship and the Strategic Utilization of Urban Agriculture Policy to Meet Community Needs -- ch. 7 "We Can Change the Landscape" Reinscribing Black Geographies into City Space via Urban Agriculture -- ch. 8 Imagining Another Way to Live in the City Confronting Spatialized Whiteness in Urban Greening Initiatives.
Summary:
"This book documents how whiteness can take up space in US cities and policies through well-intentioned progressive policy agendas that support green urbanism. Through in-depth ethnographic research in Kansas City, I explore how urban food projects-a key pillar of the city's green urban policy agenda-are conceived, implemented, and how they are perceived by residents of 'food deserts,' those intended to benefit from these projects. In doing so, I examine the narratives and histories that mostly white local food advocates are guided by, and I uplift an alternative urban history of Kansas City-one that centers the contributions of Black and brown residents to urban prosperity, and highlights how displacement of communities of color, through green development, has historically been a key urban development strategy in the city. This book highlights how myopic focus on green urbanism, as a solution to myriad urban 'problems,' ends up reinforcing racial inequity, and uplifting structural whiteness. Whiteness is now oft-publicly discussed in the U.S. This makes fine-grained analysis of how whiteness takes up space in our cities even more important. I examine this process intimately, and in doing so, flesh out our understanding of how racial inequities can be (re)created by everyday urban actors"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 56
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