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Racialized Architectural Space: A Critical Understanding of its Production, Perception and Evaluation
Academic inquiry into the concept of space as racialized can be traced back to at least as far as the turn of the twentieth century with sociologist W. E. B. Dubois’ promulgation of the “color-line” theory. More recently,
numerous postmodern scholars from a variety of fields have elucidated the various ways in which physical space (i.e., the built environment), as a social
product, embodies racialized ideologies exhibited and reproduced by segregation, economics and other social practices. The dialogue on race and space has
primarily been limited to the urban scales of city, neighborhood, community and street. Socio-spatial research that centers around race rarely addresses
this phenomenon at the scale of architecture – the individual building or a particular development. Such a failure to critically examine the role of the
architectural product in the creation and reproduction of socio-spatial and socio-racial inequality yields the field of architectural practice exempt and blameless in its tangible contribution to the psychosocial and geospatial marginalization of communities of color, as in, for example, the case of gentrification. This paper attempts to illustrate the fact that architecture, like all of the built physical environment, is not ahistorical, apolitical – and certainly not race neutral – but, as a social product, is also understood clearly within these contexts, and its psychological and social impacts and outcomes must be examined with a racially critical lens, particularly in heterogeneous urban communities
Using the Social Enterprise Intervention (SEI) and Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Models to Improve Employment and Clinical Outcomes of Homeless Youth With Mental Illness
Impact of School-wide Positive Behavior Supports on Student Behavior in the Middle Grades
Team brothers: An africentric approach to group work with african american male adolescents
Subtle forms of racism in strategy documents concerning Roma inclusion
This paper explores the ways in which national governments address the social inclusion of
disadvantaged and disenfranchised groups in official strategy documents of the state. Data for
this study comes from a corpus of four key government strategy papers concerning Roma
inclusion published by the Romanian Government between 2001 and 2015. This paper
specifically looks at the ways in which strategy documents frame the problem of “crime” in
the context of Roma inclusion. Texts were analysed using a critical frame analysis approach
complemented by insights from discursive research. The findings highlight that although
generally government policy on the Roma adopts and promotes a progressive/liberal agenda
that aligns with EU strategic goals, pronounced ambivalence toward Roma people and subtle
forms of racism are still present and persist