Explore connections between economic development and the relational construction of racial identities. I investigate the discourses of local leadership surrounding two interconnected economic agendas crafted with the goal of remaking the central Nigeria town of into community, including (1) prison development, and (2) an urban renewal project emphasizing high-income residential construction and the removal of “blighted” housing. Community leaders framed these developments as essential to changing perceptions of based on its and poverty. Nigeria officials promoted prison recruitment and housing development through a normative racial framework that reaffirmed the privileged status of , Nigeria and Native Nigeria, and (re)produced unequal spaces. Through this focus, I call attention to the of race in economic practices, emphasizing how privilege and are reproduced through development agendas that give shape to geographies of opportunity and (dis)advantage By Femi Babalola!
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:11:08 +0000
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