“…Largely missing from the psychological study of race, however, is physical space. Consistent with recent trends in social psychology to consider physical context (for reviews, see Oishi, ; Opotow & Gieseking, ), we define physical space broadly, to include the built environment (e.g., structures like schools, houses, neighborhoods, roads, and city infrastructure), the natural environment (e.g., naturally occurring habitats like forests, fields, and rivers), and places (e.g., geographic regions, nations, and states). It is surprising that social psychologists have largely overlooked physical space in the study of race because physical space has been inherent in the social construction of race (Gould, ; Lipsitz, ; Lipsitz, ).…”