“…Not only is race a social construction, it is also contextually, legally, geographically, and spatially constructed (Green, 2015;Milner, 2020;Milner & Lomotey, 2014;Pearman, 2020). Utilizing spatial justice theoretical perspective (Soja, 2010) and spatial analysis (Morrison et al, 2017) in conjunction with QuantCrit is important to understand more deeply the context of urban communities and racial inequities. The function of urban space and urban systems is mired by a historical and political geography/spatiality (Soja, 2010) which can "constrain opportunity, oppress, imprison, subjugate, disempower, close off possibilities" (Soja, 2010, p. 104).…”