Chad Prom Composition 2 Dr.

Rios 9 March 2014

After analyzing Marketplace Dining Hall and the way that space is utilized there are many questions that remain unanswered. Previously I remarked on the accessibility and convenience of the dining hall. Further, I commented on how the different areas of Marketplace acted as magnets to different types of audiences. However, I neglected to investigate whether the different sectors of Marketplace intentionally or unintentionally cater to different groups of people. In this annotated bibliography I will examine different possibilities and address the following question: Does race have a role in accessibility? Now days the answer would appear to be no, but perhaps a closer look will reveal another answer.

-Staples, Brent. "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space." Ms. Magazine (1986): n. pag. Web Just Walk on by: Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples is a fine example that race does indeed play a role in our society. As a twenty two year old graduate student at the University of Chicago Brent Staples experienced shocking instances of racial profiling. Brent recounts woman crossing the street in order to avoid the six foot two inch black man on the

street during Chicago nights. This may not appear seemingly relevant to the concept of accessibility, but indeed it is. Although Brent Staples was not denied entrance to a restaurant or not allowed to enter a store he was discriminated against. The Chicago streets were not accessible to Brent like they may have been to a white graduate student at the University of Chicago. Perhaps the woman may not have crossed the street early in order to avoid any sort of interaction. Again, Brent was not denied access anywhere but unfortunately he was denied access to the benefits a white man walking the streets of Chicago might have. Edbauer argues that a bordered, fixed-spaced, location holds less weight then when we consider that people perceive and create exigencies and spaces. Although the woman had no reason to be afraid of Brent Staples, the exigencies and perception that society has instilled in the woman create a trained response that she intuitively acts on.

-Lin, Ann Chi. "National Poverty Center | University of Michigan." RSS. University of Michigan, n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. According the National Poverty Center 50% of black respondents in a recent Gallup Poll reported incidents of discrimination within the month prior to the survey. Whether or not there are great disparities of accessibilities in todays culture or not, this survey indicates that many citizens feel they are discriminated against and denied equal opportunity and accessibility to a variety of aspects today. The National Poverty Center further reports that geographic steering of Hispanics and blacks in still common place. So is it these cultures that make neighborhoods and communities or is it the communities that attract these cultures? Judging

by the term steering it seems as though whoever is in charge of real estate property tends to encourage or push certain ethnicities to live in certain areas. Edbauer might argue that this is a domino effect. As more of a certain group moves to an area it likely will attract more similar people until a community identity is formed. The contact between two people on a busy city street is never simply a matter of those two bodies; rather, the two bodies carry with them the traces of effects from whole fields of culture and social histories , concludes Ebauer. Similar bodies, due to similar traces of effects of culture and social histories naturally gravitate toward one another.