White Spaces in Brown(ing) Places: Toward the Spatialization of Critical Immigration Studies
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Author ORCID Identifier
Aaron Arredondo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5883-7581
Juan Jose Bustamante https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6910-6925
Publication Date
2-2-2022
Publisher
Routledge
Volume
45
Issue
13
First Page
2445
Last Page
2467
Abstract
This article examines how the everyday and organizational uses of public space shape Latinx racialization. We contextualize the maturing migrant destinations of the US South and rural Midwest. Specifically, in Springdale, Arkansas and Marshall, Missouri, where the 1990s settlement of Latinx migrants transformed these from homogenously White to racially diverse communities. Hence, brown(ing) places. As a theory-driven empirical assessment, we model race, space, and immigration. This conceptual framework underlines how Latinxs experience racialized (dis)involvement in public life. Through a comparative ethnography, we illustrate how Latinxs adapt, negotiate, and contest racialized space. Just as much, we reveal the organizational, experiential, and built forms that reproduce community space as whitespace. We juxtapose to theories of whitespace as highly structured and continuous, derived from contested uses, and/or produced by dominant interests. In effect, our spatialized rendering of critical immigration studies addresses issues of racialized inclusion/exclusion across diversifying community-organizational contexts.
Recommended Citation
Arredondo, A., & Bustamante, J. J. (2022). White spaces in brown(ing) places: toward the spatialization of critical immigration studies. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45,(13), 2445–2467. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2030485
