The space that time forgot: Temporal narratives of racially integrated neighborhoods

Megan Faust

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, 2022, vol. 3, issue 1, 95-118

Abstract: This paper offers an initial theoretical examination of the discourse surrounding racially-mixed neighborhoods. Using scholarly work on time, space, and power as its foundation, this study develops the concept of residential time, or the perception and experience of a neighborhood’s demographic and cultural lifespan, and traces its deployment in narratives surrounding racially-integrated neighborhoods. I draw on both the academic literature concerning race and space as well as select news articles on neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisiana, as examples of the discursive relegation of racially-mixed neighborhoods, demonstrating how public discourse characterizes them as unstable and fleeting. I argue that this temporal relegation ultimately serves white spatial politics, or the differential construction of residential time in a manner that propels the aims of racial capitalism. The implications of such a widespread characterization of residential time in mixed-race neighborhoods are similarly discussed.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/26884674.2021.2024104

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