Racialized landscapes: whiteness and the struggle over farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon

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Nelson, Lise

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Abstract	Through an analysis of political resistance to the construction of subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon between 1991 and 1996, this article explores the defense of normative whiteness in relation to a largely undocumented Mexican immigrant population residing in the community. It is argued that for many (mostly white) city leaders and residents, the construction of urban farmworker housing represented a racialized and spatial transgression that undermined the normalized geography of farmworker invisibility — the labor camp. While the racial anxieties linked to the permanent settlement of low-wage immigrant workers had percolated for many years, the public debate over farmworker housing represented a moment when the longstanding anxiety of white residents could be publicly articulated, as well as coded and expressed as something other than race. The analysis builds on work in geography examining how spatial metaphors and practices are used to police the borders of whiteness and difference.
Freie Schlagwörter	Farmworkers; place; race; whiteness;
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2008
Seitenangabe	S. 41-62
Zeitschriftentitel	Cultural Geographies, 15 (2008) 1
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474007085782
Status	Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)