Criminalizing Space: Ideological and Institutional Productions of Race, Gender, and State-sanctioned Violence in Houston, 1948-1967

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dc.contributor.advisorByrd, Alexen_US
dc.creatorPonton, Daviden_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-01T17:33:22Zen_US
dc.date.available2017-08-01T17:33:22Zen_US
dc.date.created2017-05en_US
dc.date.issued2017-03-31en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2017en_US
dc.date.updated2017-08-01T17:33:22Zen_US
dc.description.abstractCriminalizing Space is a social history of ideas that explores various ways racial residential segregation affected the life chances of black Houstonians during the middle of the twentieth century. Jim Crow polices, custom, and living patterns marginalized black citizens from their white counterparts, negatively shaping the ways white people could relate to black people and the places they lived in. As Jim Crow slowly withered away, however, Houstonians struggled to redefine the meaning of race in ways that could be compatible with liberal individualism. Many came to rely on spatial logics. Spatial distance undergirded the social distance that stratified groups in a persistent racial hierarchy. It allowed for sustained Negrophobia, which included notions that black people were inherently predisposed or culturally conditioned to live in squalor, indulge in vice, and practice crime. For many white Houstonians, these were inherent in black spaces and justified the need for their containment through various forms of municipal neglect and abuse. Despite the efforts of black women activists, politicians, and philanthropists, the criminalization of black spaces had devastating effects on black people. It overexposed them to environmental hazards, poverty, violent crime, and police brutality. Spatial marginalization exacerbated the effects of these on black women, who faced sexual assault at the hands of police officers and employers as well as increased risks for assault and murder by their intimate partners in their own homes.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationPonton, David. "Criminalizing Space: Ideological and Institutional Productions of Race, Gender, and State-sanctioned Violence in Houston, 1948-1967." (2017) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96061">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96061</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/96061en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectHoustonen_US
dc.subjectcrimeen_US
dc.subjectraceen_US
dc.subjectanti-blacknessen_US
dc.subjectNegrophobiaen_US
dc.subjectracismen_US
dc.subjectJim Crowen_US
dc.subjectTexasen_US
dc.subjectcivil rights movementen_US
dc.subjectTexas Southern Universityen_US
dc.subjectCarter Wesleyen_US
dc.subjectChristia Adairen_US
dc.subjectAnna Dupreeen_US
dc.subjectClarence Dupreeen_US
dc.subjectcriminalization of raceen_US
dc.subjectcriminalization of spaceen_US
dc.subjectspatialization of raceen_US
dc.subjectliberalismen_US
dc.subjectliberal individualismen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectsexualityen_US
dc.subjectviolenceen_US
dc.titleCriminalizing Space: Ideological and Institutional Productions of Race, Gender, and State-sanctioned Violence in Houston, 1948-1967en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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