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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brug, Peary
• Ritter, Zachary S
• Roth, Kenneth R

Titel

Marginality in the Urban Center: The Costs and Challenges of Continued Whiteness in the Americas and Beyond

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This work examines the increasing marginalisation of and response by people living in urban areas throughout the Western Hemisphere, and both the local and global implications of continued colonial racial hierarchies and the often-dire consequences they have for people perceived as different. However, in the aftermath of recent U.S. elections, whiteness also seems to embody strictures on religion, ethnicity, country of origin, and almost any other personal characteristic deemed suspect at the moment. For that reason, gender, race, and even class, collectively, may not be sufficient units of analysis to study the marginalising mechanisms of the urban centre. The authors interrogate the social and institutional structures that facilitate the disenfranchisement or downward trajectory of groups, and their potential or subsequent lack of access to mainstream rewards.