The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered our associational life and relationship to public space, revealing deadly inequities in access to health care and other resources, particularly in communities of color. In Harlem and other areas of New York City that are experiencing neoliberal redevelopment, the response to the pandemic has also rearticulated public spaces, introducing new and diverse spatial uses and users, and providing low-income and working-class African American and Latinx residents with increased opportunities to contest their exclusion from public and quasi-public spaces and the symbolic economy of gentrification. Based on ethnographic research conducted during the pandemic, I show how black and brown residents in West Harlem encountered, negotiated, and contested these race-cum-class–based, spatio-symbolic exclusions through infrapolitical practices and, in the process, demanded and exercised their “right to the city.” [race, infrapolitics, public space, gentrification, redevelopment, right to the city, COVID-19, Harlem, New York City]

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COVID-19 时代的种族和公共空间的次要政治

COVID-19 大流行从根本上改变了我们的社团生活和与公共空间的关系，揭示了在获得医疗保健和其他资源方面的致命不平等，特别是在有色人种社区。在哈莱姆区和纽约市其他正在经历新自由主义重建的地区，对大流行的反应也重新定义了公共空间，引入了新的和多样化的空间用途和用户，并为低收入和工人阶级的非裔美国人和拉丁裔居民提供了增加了反对将他们排除在公共和准公共空间以及高档化的象征性经济之外的机会。根据大流行期间进行的人种学研究，我展示了西哈莱姆区的黑人和棕色居民是如何遇到、谈判和争夺这些以种族和阶级为基础的，通过非政治实践进行空间象征性的排斥，并在此过程中要求并行使他们的“城市权利”。[种族,次要政治,公共空间,高档化,重建,城市权, COVID-19 ,哈莱姆,纽约市]