Twentieth-century racism shifted from rural to urban concerns

Evidence

As the twentieth century unfolds, racial concerns lie less with agricultural labor supplies and stock theft, with skirmishes over slave rebellions and wars over broad territorial claims or control. Rather, they are directed to urbail ecologies, to migrant and immigrant influx into cities, to town turf, manufacturing and mining labor supply, protection of skilled white workers, school access, housing stock, and a sense of social elevation. The concerns over race increasingly become those about the nature and discipline, aesthetics and morality of public space, about who can be seen where and in what capacity. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 93

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the soundscape noise-material on how sonic control of urban space became a class/race marker; both track who can occupy public space and how.

Related

• Race and ethnicity have been conceptually bound to spatial metaphors since the field’s origins (similarity 0.82)
• Urban heterogeneity transformed race into an internal threat requiring spatial controls (similarity 0.82)
• Twentieth-century urban social science was saturated with racial imagery and whiteness boundaries (similarity 0.81)
• Racial architecture shapes neighborhoods and the habitus of their residents (similarity 0.79)
• Urban segregation replaced regional divides as black urbanization expanded by 1930 (similarity 0.79)
• Racial thinking and urban sensibility share overlapping binary structures (similarity 0.79)
• Urban research should pair empirical study with skepticism about representation. (similarity 0.78)
• Racialized structures distribute resources and access by race (similarity 0.78)