Abstract
Abstract This article traces contemporary patterns of housing and homelessness to colonial geographies as race-place schemata: historic and ongoing relationships to territory that articulate and impose white supremacy while stimulating resistance to it. These phenomena are approached through the four fields of anthropology, placing a contemporary ethnography of gentrification/displacement in Oakland in conversation with the archeological record of colonization. The demographic tracking of human populations through census instruments and discourses of biological distancing suggest implications for biological anthropology, and socio-linguistic analysis is applied to colonial naming practice. Intended as an essay-length land acknowledgement and critical interrogation of contemporary white spatial entitlement, this research centers the capacity of territorial aesthetics and the geographic organization of the Spanish imperial project to produce continuing place-based dominance over colonized peoples through dispossession of their lands, containment of their populations, assimilation and erasure of their life ways, and surveillance over and defense against their resistance.
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