Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness

Migrant margins: The streetlife of discrimination

“…Migrants both inhabit and contest durable borders of discrimination that reach into many aspects of everyday city life, including limited access to the urban labour market as well as societal prescriptions of where to live. Yet the margins are more than simply a space to which people are designated, they are places that are appropriated and in the conditions of everyday life the margins ‘have been both sites of repression and sites of resistance’ (hooks, 1989, p. 208). Within this frame I combine urban sociological understandings of ‘race’ and inequality with fluid understandings of ‘makeshift’ (Vasudevan, 2015) and ‘provisional’ (Simone, 2017) city-making that have emerged in post-colonial urban studies.…”

“…However, hooks (1989, p. 206) offers a more complex perspective of marginality as ‘much more than a site of deprivation … , it is also the site of radical politics, a space of resistance’. Street studies encompass a commitment not only to the space of the urban margins but an orientation to observing and writing about marginalisation in which human experience is given primacy.…”

“…Together they recalibrate the street, experimenting with forms of cross-cultural exchange integral to making do and getting by. Reflecting hooks’ (1989, p. 204) engagement with the space of the margins, proprietors too forge ‘a sense of place, of not just who I am in the present but where I am coming from, the multiple voices in me’. Practices of place-making therefore complicate the more singular claims of ‘immigrant enclaves’ and the ‘ethnic niche’ (Portes & Manning, 1986) as a means of securing an economic foothold in the city.…”

“Your English is Accented!”: Surviving With Otherness While Approaching Positive Becoming

“…The Third Space relies on deconstruction, denies static meanings of self-presence, and is grounded in a postcolonial context. It is a space of radical openness (hooks, 1989) leading to a reconfigured relationship across the colonial divide (Kalscheuer, 2008). It is a space of taiji (Tai Chi, 太極), where there is no dichotomous black and white as a priori.…”

Questioning a Single Narrative: Multiple Identities Shaping Black Queer and Transgender Student Retention

“…Yet, frequently higher education scholars and practitioners speak to the experiences of minoritized students in narrow and monolithic ways. Although leaders of colleges and universities cannot know all the intricate nuances of their students' lives, it is critical for administrators, faculty, and staff to seek an understanding of the systemic and individual forces impacting the retention and persistence of minoritized student populations on college campusesparticularly those who hold multiple minoritized identities who often live in the margins of praxis (Hooks, 1990). While some scholars have explored issues impacting retention and persistence of queer and transgender students on college campuses (Garvey, Rankin, Beemyn, & Windmeyer, 2017;Marine, 2017) and other scholars have delved into the retention and persistence of Black students (Jones & Williams, 2006;Wood & Palmer, 2014), limited scholarship exists specifically addressing the experiences of Black queer and transgender college students that consider the ways anti-Blackness, and other forms of systemic oppression, contribute to their attrition.…”