Status Updates From Black in Place: The Spatial...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan and white spatial imagination

“‘Unseeing’...is an appraisal of what aspects of blackness the state, private developers, business owners, tourists, and residents want to keep, use, and fold into the narrative of H Street as a destination. Therefore, what is ‘seen’ are exceptional, iconic representations of black life—nostalgic, ‘more authentic, successful expression[s] of blackness,’ but not Monday in black life.”

She is dragging the "cultural economy" and diversity-oriented planning schemes on every other page and I love it!!!

"As a discursive project, diversity is unable to address inequality, privilege, and power, especially when framed in terms of cultural consumption."