Race thinking and urban vocabularies are mutually implicated across all their representational forms

Evidence

Race and city: both terms share an anchor at the heart of commonsense discussions about the way in which we live our lives. Both terms are the invisible center of subdisciplinary studies in both social sciences and humanities. Both terms mean something and yet when scrutinized more carefully they appear to expand to include everything or else melt into air as conceptually flawed caricatures of reality. … It is suggested here that the binary relationships that inform “race thinking” and the uncertain values that are invoked through vocabularies of urbanism are mutually implicated in the history of descriptions that make the social life of cities comprehensible across a wide range of related sources, ranging through the imaginary world of novelists, the ideologically loaded paradigms of the academy, the seemingly mundane texts of governmental reform, and the hyperreal excesses of Sim City and the virtual experience of the computer game. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2262

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2262