{"product_id":"race-space-and-culture-k-ian-grandison-9781421454375","title":"Race, Space, and Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and the Built Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow race and space shape one another in profound and often contested ways.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does race shape the spaces we inhabit, and how do those spaces, in turn, shape our perception of race? This book addresses these questions by bringing cultural theory into dialogue with the practices of design, planning, and architecture. Edited by K. Ian Grandison and Marlon B. Ross, the essays in this collection argue that racial identity is never separate from the landscapes, infrastructures, and built environments that are so familiar that we often fail to see their ideological and economic implications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first two chapters, authored by Grandison and Ross, frame the theory and methods of what they term \"critical landscape studies\" with case studies on historic preservation and gentrification, respectively. The other essays build on this approach from different interdisciplinary perspectives--investigating further how race is embedded in the processes of planning, preservation, and urban development, and how spatial practices are never neutral terrains but instead represent contested cultural records. Contributors reveal how the vertical hierarchies of race--long defined by the extremes of whiteness and Blackness--are continually negotiated across the categories of gender, sexuality, religion, and diaspora. The volume also underscores how disciplines that have too often treated space as abstract or universal must confront its racialized dimensions with greater rigor, while design professions must attend to the cultural identities, material interests, and power imbalances that shape and are shaped by the environments they create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom university campuses to gentrifying neighborhoods and from sacred landscapes to sites of ecological struggle, the essays in this collection offer a timely and provocative critical analysis of how space and race interact and inform each other. It challenges readers to see how the politics of racial formation and representation are embedded in the landscapes that surround us, and how those built environments in turn influence cultural perceptions of identity and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e K. Ian Grandison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421454378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421454375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d","brand":"K. Ian Grandison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48587575820543,"sku":"9781421454375","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/race-space-and-culture-k-ian-grandison-9781421454375","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}