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White identity in the United States is place bound, asserts George Lipsitz in How Racism Calls for Place. An important scholar in North american and racial studies, Lipsitz contends that racism persists just because a network of procedures skew opportunities and life chances along racial lines. That is, these procedures assign folks of different races to different places and for that reason allow grossly unequal usage of education, employment, travel, and shelter. Disclosing how seemingly race-neutral urban sites contain concealed racial assumptions and imperatives, Lipsitz examines the ways in which urban space and cultural experience are racialized and emphasizes that aggrieved neighborhoods do not passively acquiesce to racism. He recognizes people and communities which may have re-imagined segregated places in expressive culture as places for congregation. How Racism Calls for Place not only exposes the amount to which this white spatial imagining constructions our contemporary society but also celebrates the dark performers and activists who battle to generate a just and good society.
