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
Recommended Citation
Brunsma, D. L., Chapman, N. G., Kim, J. W., Lellock, J. S., Underhill, M., Withers, E. T., & Wyse, J. P. (2020). The culture of white space: On the Racialized production of meaning. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(14), 2001-2015. doi:10.1177/0002764220975081