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3 J.L. Soc'y 31 (2002)
Suburbification, Segregation, and the Consolidation of the Highway Machine

handle is hein.journals/jls3 and id is 39 raw text is: SUBURBIFICATION, SEGREGATION, AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE HIGHWAY MACHINE KEVIN DOUGLAS KUSWA* I. INTRODUCTION If the population was moving west and south, it was also moving to the suburbs. As it did, the suburbs became population extensions of the city, and more and more a part of the metropolis. In the fifties and sixties the suburbs had often been an appendage to the host city on which they relied for jobs and culture. By 1990, the suburb had metamorphosed into something more, often an urban area in its own right.' In many ways, the emergence of suburbia out of the urban city-center is a form of progress inevitably linked to institutional racism and white privilege. Defined as one of this country's greatest accomplishments through the Interstate Highway Act of 1956,2 the framework of the interstate highway machine requires attention. This article is an attempt to re-member the highway in another context-a countermemory.3 This * Dr. Kuswa is the Director of Debating at the University of Richmond and has written on issues of globalization, critical whiteness, and rhetoric. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in Communication Studies. 1. TOM LEwIs, DIVIDED HIGHWAYS 264 (1997). 2. See Federal-Aid Highway Act, Pub. L. No. 627, ch. 462, §108(e), 70 Stat. 374 (1956) (current version at 23 U.S.C. §1090)(1994)). 3. Edward Said wrote recently about the resurgence of geography and memory in critical theory. The triumph of globalization and international market expansion, for instance, must also be tied together with the poverty and conflict that overwhelms many groups of people across the planet. Discussing these and other issues, Said concludes: In any event these controversies raise the question not only of what is remembered but how and in what form. It is an issue about the very fraught nature of representation, not just about content. Edward Said, Invention, Memory, and Place,

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