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Racialized landscapes: whiteness and the struggle over farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon
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Abstract Through an analysis of political resistance to the construction of subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon between 1991 and 1996, this article explores the defense of normative whiteness in relation to a largely undocumented Mexican immigrant population residing in the community. It is arg... view more
Through an analysis of political resistance to the construction of subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon between 1991 and 1996, this article explores the defense of normative whiteness in relation to a largely undocumented Mexican immigrant population residing in the community. It is argued that for many (mostly white) city leaders and residents, the construction of urban farmworker housing represented a racialized and spatial transgression that undermined the normalized geography of farmworker invisibility — the labor camp. While the racial anxieties linked to the permanent settlement of low-wage immigrant workers had percolated for many years, the public debate over farmworker housing represented a moment when the longstanding anxiety of white residents could be publicly articulated, as well as coded and expressed as something other than race. The analysis builds on work in geography examining how spatial metaphors and practices are used to police the borders of whiteness and difference.... view less
Free Keywords
Farmworkers; place; race; whiteness;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 41-62
Journal
Cultural Geographies, 15 (2008) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474007085782
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)