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The Case: Eminent Domain in Jefferson Square The Case: Eminent Domain in Jefferson Square
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Racial Domination Racial Domination
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Racial Remedies Racial Remedies
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Racial Representation Racial Representation
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The Theory: Race as a Set of Symbolic Resources The Theory: Race as a Set of Symbolic Resources
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Creating and Rectifying Racial Inequalities Creating and Rectifying Racial Inequalities
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Beyond Resistance to Voice Beyond Resistance to Voice
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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References References
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8 Race as a Set of Symbolic Resources: Mobilization in the Politics of Eminent Domain
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Published:October 2015
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Abstract
Highly publicized conflicts about eminent domain for urban regeneration have seemingly erased race from public discussion by focusing on white property owners, despite a longer publicized history of African-American encounters with the policy. This chapter argues that in public fights over real property, race can and should be understood broadly as a symbolic resource. The chapter explores three ways race can be a symbolic resource with black cases and faces, demonstrating that by understanding race as a symbolic resource and by differentiating how it is used, we can see what we otherwise might not: how people typically disadvantaged can use race to combat racial inequalities, and how and when they might succeed. These concepts allow for a better understanding of this chapter’s empirical study: an examination of how race mattered in a mostly African-American, South Philadelphia neighborhood fight over eminent domain in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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