Making space, making race: Reconstituting white privilege in buckhead, Atlanta

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 379-397

  Hankins, Katherine B ^a   Cochran, Robert ^b   Derickson, Kate Driscoll ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlanta; Buckhead; Race; Racialization; Urban political economy; White privilege

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RACE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN ECONOMY;

ATLANTA; BUCKHEAD; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

SOJA;

EID: 84866857255     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2012.688851     Document Type: Article

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