Black Geographic

Camilla Hawthorne is Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean, and coeditor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship.Jovan Scott Lewis is Associate Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa, also published by Duke University Press, and Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica.

• Introduction. Black Geographies: Material Praxis of Black Life and Study / Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis  1Part I. Praxis1. Call Us Alive Someplace: Du Boisian Methods and Living Black Geographies / Danielle Purifoy  272. Shaking the Basemap / Judith Madera  503. “My Bad Attitude toward the Pastoral”: Race, Place, and Allusion in the Poetry of C. S. Giscombe / Chiyuma Elliott  72Part II. Resistances4. Blackness Out of Place and In Between in the Sahara / Ampson Hagan  975. Words Re(en)visioned: Black and Indigenous Languages for Autonomy / Diana Negrin  1246. Blackness in the (Post)Colonial African City / Jordanna Matlon  1457. Mariella Franco and Black Spatial Imaginaries / Solange Munoz  167Part III. Futurity8. Rendering Gentrification and Erasing Race: Sustainable Development and the (Re)visioning of Oakland, California, as a Green City / C. N. E. Corbin  1899. “Need Black Joy?”: Mapping an Afrotechtonics of Gathering in Los Angeles / Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta  21310. The San Francisco Blues / Lindsey Dillon  24611. Today Like Yesterday, Tomorrow Like Today: Black Geographies in the Breaks of the Fourth Dimension / Anna Livia Brand  26412. A Black Geographic Reverie & Reckoning in Ink and Form / Sharita Towne  287Contributors  323Index  327

“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, The Black Geographic is a defining text.” - Ashanté M. Reese, author of (Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.) “The Black Geographic 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 "The Black Geographic is a groundbreaking work that holds relevance for shaping future research that shows how visuality is a powerful method for unsettling racist spatial imaginaries and envisioning abolitionist, racially just futures." - Chinelo L. Njaka (Visual Studies) "The Black Geographic underscores the methodological creativity and careful analysis required to shed light on Black geographic praxis and Black emplacement. It is a must read for scholars in the Black studies and critical Geography studies fields seeking competence in understanding the scope and trajectory of the Black Geographies field." - Jade Evans (E3W Review of Books)