Racial Territoriality and Protest
Abstract
This chapter focuses on how protests have been shaped by racial territoriality in the United States—race-based exclusion and control over black Americans has led to their murder by police in everyday spaces—and how this elevates reciprocally the importance of everyday spaces for protests against police brutality. This chapter tracks the timelines of two events of police violence from different eras of American history and the protests associated with these events, arguing that similar patterns of spatial relationships have continued to reproduce themselves over time.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Race
History
and American Society
Policing Practices and Perceptions
Urban Planning and Governance
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 146–163
- Publication date
- 18 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter