Introduction: race, place, and power
Social imaginaries and social relations
The white spatial imaginary
The Black spatial imaginary
Spectatorship and citizenship
Space, sports, and spectatorship in St. Louis
The crime The wire couldn't name : social decay and cynical detachment in Baltimore
A bridge for this book
Weapons of the weak and weapons of the strong
Visible archives
Horace Tapscott and the world stage in Los Angeles
John Biggers and project row houses in Houston
Invisible archives
Betye Saar's Los Angeles and Paule Marshall's Brooklyn
Something left to love : Lorraine Hansberry's Chicago
Race and place today
New Orleans today : we know this place
A place where everybody is somebody.