Race-ethnicity scholarship has always been saturated with territorial metaphors.

Evidence

Issues of location, space, and territory have played key roles in the history and development of racial and ethnic formations in various parts of the globe. The location of race and ethnicity within spatial boundaries, whether it be the colonial state or the metropolitan city, the urban “ghetto” or the suburban sprawl, has been a recurrent theme in theoretical debates and in empirical studies of urban life. From the very earliest stages of the genesis of the academic study of race and ethnicity, metaphors of race and territory have abounded, inherent features of the field of study. Indeed, in many ways racially marked images of “the city” and urban spaces have played a key role in the configuration of urban politics and social change. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2240 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race and ethnicity have been conceptually bound to spatial metaphors since the field’s origins — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2240

Broader Connections

• Race and ethnicity have been conceptually bound to spatial metaphors since the field’s origins #corroborates (0.96) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2240