{"product_id":"the-black-geographic-9781478025153","title":"The Black Geographic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eThe Black Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities, literary criticism, and art to show how understanding the spatial dimensions of Black life contributes to a broader understanding of race and space. They examine key sites of inquiry: Black spatial imaginaries, resistance to racial violence, the geographies of racial capitalism, and struggles over urban space. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that Blackness is itself a situating and place-making force, even as it is shaped by spatial processes and diasporic routes. Whether discussing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abolitionist print records or migration and surveillance in Niger, this volume demonstrates that Black Geographies is a m\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This volume takes on the monumental task of pulling together scholarship from different geographic areas, time periods, and disciplines to put forth a view on the current state of Black Geographies while gesturing toward new futures. Pushing the field, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e is a defining text.” -- Ashanté M. Reese, author of * Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Black Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e will continue to extend and push the tradition of Black Geographies in fresh, insightful, and important new ways through the insights of the newest generation of scholars who are defining and redefining the terrain of these discussions and debates. A superb collection.” -- Nik Heynen, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography, University of Georgia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Black Geographies: Material Praxis of Black Life and Study \/ Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Praxis\u003cbr\u003e 1. Call Us Alive Someplace: Du Boisian Methods and Living Black Geographies \/ Danielle Purifoy  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Shaking the Basemap \/ Judith Madera  50\u003cbr\u003e 3. “My Bad Attitude toward the Pastoral”: Race, Place, and Allusion in the Poetry of C. S. Giscombe \/ Chiyuma Elliott  72\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Resistances\u003cbr\u003e 4. Blackness Out of Place and In Between in the Sahara \/ Ampson Hagan  97\u003cbr\u003e 5. Words Re(en)visioned: Black and Indigenous Languages for Autonomy \/ Diana Negrin  124\u003cbr\u003e 6. Blackness in the (Post)Colonial African City \/ Jordanna Matlon  145\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mariella Franco and Black Spatial Imaginaries \/ Solange Munoz  167\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Futurity\u003cbr\u003e 8. Rendering Gentrification and Erasing Race: Sustainable Development and the (Re)visioning of Oakland, California, as a Green City \/ C. N. E. Corbin  189\u003cbr\u003e 9. “Need Black Joy?”: Mapping an Afrotechtonics of Gathering in Los Angeles \/ Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta  213\u003cbr\u003e 10. The San Francisco Blues \/ Lindsey Dillon  246\u003cbr\u003e 11. Today Like Yesterday, Tomorrow Like Today: Black Geographies in the Breaks of the Fourth Dimension \/ Anna Livia Brand  264\u003cbr\u003e 12. A Black Geographic Reverie \u0026amp; Reckoning in Ink and Form \/ Sharita Towne  287\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  323\u003cbr\u003e Index  327","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409017315671,"sku":"9781478025153","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025153.jpg?v=1730505111","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-black-geographic-9781478025153","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}