Racing the Street

"Robert J. Topinka convincingly demonstrates how tropes function in the service of organizing the excesses of urban life. On London's streets, race emerges as a technology of governmentality."--Kundai Chirindo, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies and Director of Ethnic Studies, Lewis & Clark College "Racing the Street is a fascinating look at how the assemblage of race has been used as a tool to manage cities that threaten historical ideas of manageability. Topinka's counterhistory is an important contribution to conversations about race and urban studies."--Jenny Rice, author of Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence