South Central Farmers and Shadow Hills Homeowners: Land Use Policy and Relational Racialization in Los Angeles.

LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIA

This article draws from the recent relational turn in geography to develop a model of relational racialization. It argues that racism functions through the legal and discursive production of linked, interdependent, and unequal places. By comparing two social movements in Los Angeles, the South Central Farmers and the Shadow Hills homeowners, I examine two spatial discourses through which race is relationally reproduced: unequal abilities to mobilize the entitlements of “property rights” and unequal claims to represent hegemonic forms of local heritage. When materialized and naturalized in land use policy, these discourses re-create racial disparities in wealth and poverty and reproduce the qualitative nature of the physical places on which racism depends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Con base en el reciente giro relacional en geografía, este artículo desarrolla un modelo de racialización relacional. Se arguye que el racismo funciona a través de la producción legal y discursiva de lugares entrelazados, interdependientes y desiguales. Comparando dos movimientos sociales de Los Ángeles, el de los agricultores South Central y el de los propietarios de vivienda de Shadow Hill, examino dos discursos espaciales, mediante los cuales la raza es reproducida relacionalmente: habilidades dispares para movilizar la titularidad de "derechos de propiedad" y pretensiones desiguales para representar formas hegemónicas de herencia local. Cuando estos discursos se materializan y naturalizan en políticas de usos del suelo recrean disparidades raciales en términos de riqueza y pobreza, y reproducen la naturaleza cualitativa de los lugares físicos en los cuales se apoya el racismo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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