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The space that time forgot: Temporal narratives of racially integrated neighborhoods

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This paper offers an initial theoretical examination of the discourse surrounding racially-mixed neighborhoods. Using scholarly work on time, space, and power as its foundation, this study develops the concept of residential time, or the perception and experience of a neighborhood’s demographic and cultural lifespan, and traces its deployment in narratives surrounding racially-integrated neighborhoods. I draw on both the academic literature concerning race and space as well as select news articles on neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisiana, as examples of the discursive relegation of racially-mixed neighborhoods, demonstrating how public discourse characterizes them as unstable and fleeting. I argue that this temporal relegation ultimately serves white spatial politics, or the differential construction of residential time in a manner that propels the aims of racial capitalism. The implications of such a widespread characterization of residential time in mixed-race neighborhoods are similarly discussed.

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  • Megan Faust, 2022. "The space that time forgot: Temporal narratives of racially integrated neighborhoods," Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(1), pages 95-118, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:urecxx:v:3:y:2022:i:1:p:95-118
    DOI: 10.1080/26884674.2021.2024104
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