Everyday urban vocabulary encodes implicit racialized worlds

Evidence

But the purpose of this chapter is not, in the spirit of comparative sociology, to typologize geographies of city thinking and their cognate ideologies of city planning. It is rather to suggest that beginning to understand the genealogy of vocabularies of the urban alongside the spatially concrete forms of race formation provides an alternative perspective on ways of thinking about race and the city. Put simply it is sometimes most productive to think about the invoked racial worlds of the urban social that are implicit when people talk of the ghetto and the community, the street and the projects, the problem estate and the regenerated neighborhood, the “burbs” and the “hood.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2301

Categorization

• SEED: The phrase ‘invoked racial worlds implicit when people talk of the ghetto and the community, the street and the projects’ is a strong essay angle: decoding the racial geography embedded in everyday neighborhood vocabulary.