Mapping Everyday

Mapping Everyday: Gender, Blackness, and Discourse in Urban Contexts is an article by L. Hill Taylor and Robert J. Helfenbein that looks at how students in primarily black schools are educated differently that primarily white schools. It looks at the students' views of the world that white, privileged students may not see.  One of the main points made was about the different ways spaces are described. For instance, you have a woman which is the physical description. Then you have the dominant representation, which means that women are delicate, they should be polite, wear make up, fix their hair, and shave their legs. Then there is the small percent of women that do not fit that dominant representation. This is described as the thirdspace representation. If enough people start to see that the thirdspace representation as the "right" however, then that becomes the dominant representation. This theory is Edward Soja's. Anything can be taken into consideration with this theory. People, places, areas of a city, people that live in a certain area. The problem is that the thirdspace is less than likely viewed by the majority as acceptable, thus ending sex, gender, orientation, disability, and religious discrimination is a never ending task.