Race and landscape in the United States / Richard H. Schein -- Historical geographies of race in a New Orleans Afro-Creole landscape / Michael Crutcher -- The white-pillared past : landscapes of memory and race in the American South / Steven Hoelscher -- Seeing Hampton Plantation : race and gender in a South Carolina heritage landscape / Samuel F. Dennis, Jr -- Poetic landscapes of exclusion : Chinese immigration at Angel Island, San Francisco / Gareth Hoskins -- The picture postcard Mexican housescape : visual culture and domestic identity / Daniel D. Arreola -- Race, class, and privacy in the ordinary postwar house, 1945-60 / Dianne Harris -- Aesthetics, abjection and white privilege in suburban New York / James Duncan and Nancy Duncan -- The cultural landscape of a Latino community / James Rojas -- The witting autobiography of Richmond, Virginia : Arthur Ashe, the Civil War, and Monument Avenue's racialized landscape / Jonathan Leib -- Naming streets for Martin Luther King, Jr. : no easy road / Derek H. Alderman -- Puptowns and wiggly fields : Chicago and the racialization of pet-love in the twenty-first century / Heidi J. Nast
Summary:
Providing information on racialised landscapes in the US, this book investigates social landscapes including Chinatowns, Latino landscapes in the Southwest and white suburban landscapes. Essays provide historical and contemporary coverage for cultural and social geographers and landscape specialists.
