What follows is a collection of work by Black geographers, and additional recommended readings on Black geographies and anti-Blackness in the United States and Canadian contexts. It is by no means a comprehensive or exhaustive review of Black scholarship in this area.
This has been compiled by students and faculty at UBC Geography.
We recognize that we as a department have a great deal more work to do in order to directly support scholarship on race, and Black scholarship in particular.
This list marks a small effort to use the privilege we have – knowledge and a platform – to uplift Black scholarship within our own community and beyond.
- The perils of being black in public: we are all Christian Cooper and George Floyd by Carolyn Finney
- Black Geographers in Institutions of Higher Education in the United States: Where they are and a selected bibliography of their works, compiled by Joe Darden and Lucia Terra in 2003
- Free micro-syllabus on the Black Lives Matter movement from Taylor & Francis (all papers are free to access until August 31st 2020)
- Making Room for Black Feminist Praxis in Geography: A Dialogue between Camilla Hawthorne and Brittany Meche
- Black Geographies reading list created by Anna Livia Brand
- The Berkeley Black Geographies Project
- Black Geographies: Mapping Black Spaces and Places, drawn from the work of Katherine McKittrick
- The Geographies of Blackness and Anti-Blackness: An interview with Katherine McKittrick
- Canada Has Race Based Police Violence Too. We Don’t Know How Much.
- A Way Out of No Way: Struggles for Economic Survival in Black Milwaukee by Hilary Wilson
- The Anti-Blackness of Global Capital by Adam Bledsoe and Willie Jamaal Wright
- Here are the freedom songs of the Movement for Black Lives by Willie Jamaal Wright
- Urban Geography: Understanding Black Cities and the Black Experience in Cities by Adam Bledsoe and Willie Jamaal Wright
- Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion and the Criminalization of Blackness compiled by the Abusable Past Collective
- The work of Bobby Wilson
- The work of Sophie Sapp Moore, including co-organizing the Sawyer Seminar: Interrogating the Plantationocene
- Rachel Goffe, urban geographer
- A So Black People Stay: Bad-mind, Sufferation, and Discourses of Race and Unity in a Jamaican Craft Market by Jovan Scott Lewis
- Visceral Geographies of Whiteness and Invisible Microaggressions by Joshi, McCutcheon and Sweet
- Racial Capitalism, the Free Trade Zone of Pacific Alliance, and Colombian Utopic Spatialities of Anti-Blackness by Jaime Alves
- The Negation and Reassertion of Black Geographies in Brazil by Adam Bledsoe
- Labor’s Aphasia: Towards Antiblackness as Constitutive to Settler Colonialism by Tiffany King
- An interview with Tiffany King
- Patricia Noxolo, lead researcher on the Carribbean In/securities and Creativity research network
- Zenzele Isoke, urban ethnographer
- Rashad Shabazz; human geography, Black cultural studies, gender studies and critical prison studies
- An interview with Ashanté M. Reese
- Latoya Eaves, founder of the Black Geographies AAG Specialty Group
- Black Geographies AAG Specialty Group, who have also curated a Black Geographies reading list
- Ellis Adams; geoscience and global water security
- Beverley Mullings; feminist political economy
- Courage Under Fire: Handcuffing and Gagged by the Streets by Yvette LaShone Pye
- Rinaldo Walcott; Black Diaspora Cultural Studies, gender and sexuality
- Aaron Mallory, working on dissertation project The Life: Accounting and Triage for black LGBTQIA communities in HIV Prevention
- Andrea Roberts, founder of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project
- Virtual exhibit: dying to eat? black food geographies of slow violence and resilience by Naya Jones
- Caroline Bressey‘s work on ‘looking for Blackness’
- Samuel Agblorti; disaster risk management and migration
- Rita Yembilah; poverty and precarious livelihoods
- Daniel Tevera; urban studies and labour migration
Publications requiring library access
- The Practice of Slowness: Black Queer Women and the Right to the City by Kemi Adeyemi
- Critical feminist reflexivity and the politics of whiteness in the ‘field’ by Faria and Mollett
- “So high you can’t get over it, so low you can’t get under it”: Carceral Spatiality and Black Masculinities in the United States and South Africa by Rashad Shabazz
- Salome Buglass’ work on coral reef communities and marine resource management
- Cultural competence and cultural humility: a critical reflection on key cultural diversity concepts by Ransford Danso
Books
- Black Queer Studies, A Critical Anthology
- Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard
- Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
- Toward an Other Globalization: From the Single Thought to Universal Conscience by Milton Santos
- Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta by Clyde Woods
- Race, Place and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America by Harold Rose and Paula McClain
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
- Toward a Global Idea of Race by Denise Ferreira da Silva
Talks
- Geographies of Racial Capitalism by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Rachel Kushner
- How to Program A Carceral City by Brian Jordan Jefferson
Podcasts
With thanks to Rachel Brydolf-Horwitz, JP Catungal, Jessica Dempsey, Albina Gibadullina, Miriam Grant, Leila Harris, Micah Hilt, Bonnie Kaserman, David Ley, Terence Gary McGee, Juanita Sundberg, Gabriele Woolever, Elvin Wyly.
This is an evolving resource – please contact Mary Halton with additions or updates.
