Redlining Educational Spaces: Advancing a Critical Analytical Framework for Disclosing Racialized Educational Spaces

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Abstract

This work seeks to define a critical spatial analytical theory that addresses museums as public educational spaces that are defining cultural institutions of our society and how the architecture that crafts their experience can perpetuate discrimination, oppression, and white supremacy through a systemic normative gaze and spatial-architectural micro-aggressions, thereby perpetuate a social identity of inequity and disenfranchisement (DiAngelo, 2018; Sensoy & DiAngelo, 2017; Huber & Solorzano, 2015; Briscoe, 2005; West, 2001). This redlining of educational space acknowledges the embedded nature of racism in institutions, structures, and behaviors of our society as foundational to understanding the oppressive language of space and place, seeking a renewed vision through disclosure (Ali & Gates 2024; Goings et al., 2023; DiAngelo 2018; Rothstein, 2017).

Authors

• William Francis Gates, Boston Architectural College

• Noor Ali, Northeastern University