The Culture of White Space: On The Racialized Production of Meaning

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2020

Abstract

This article focuses on processes of meaning making in White spaces as the glue that holds their social structures together. Understanding White spaces and how they operate necessitates theoretical development from a cultural perspective. The authors’ research empirically engages with a wide range of White spaces—neighborhoods, subcultural scenes, craft breweries, online digital platforms, and academia, to name a few—and do so from a theoretical space where the two areas of sociology meet: race and culture. We engage with three key questions to theorize the culture of White space: (a) How do these White spaces work? (b) How are these White spaces challenged? (c) How do these White spaces change and/or reproduce themselves? From these engagements, this article develops a general approach to understanding White spaces through understanding their racialized processes of meaning making. © 2020 SAGE Publications.

DOI

10.1177/0002764220975081

First Page

2001

Last Page

2015

Volume

64

Issue

14

Publication Title

American Behavioral Scientist

ISSN

00027642

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