AAG Journal Articles on Black Geographies and Racial Justice

The following titles reflect vital scholarship on Black Geographies in AAG’s journals in recent years. Through 2023, AAG and Taylor & Francis are providing free access to these articles, available for download at the links listed below.
For additional reading recommendations, see Black Geographies Reading List, sponsored by the AAG Black Geographies Specialty Group.
- Alderman, Derek H. A Street Fit for a King: Naming Places and Commemoration in the American South
- Alderman, Derek H., Paul Kingsbury & Owen J. Dwyer. Reexamining the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Toward an Empathetic Pedagogy of the Civil Rights Movement
- Belanger, Elizabeth. Working-Class Mobility and Streetcar Politics in Reconstruction-Era St. Louis,
- Best, Asha. The Way They Blow the Horn: Caribbean Dollar Cabs and Subaltern Mobilities
- Bledsoe, Adam. Neither Ground on Which to Stand, nor Self to Defend: The Structural Denial (and Radical Histories) of Black Self-Defense
- Bledsoe, Adam. Afro-Brazilian Resistance to Extractivism in the Bay of Aratu
- Bruno, Tianna and Cristina Faiver-Serna. More Reflections on a White Discipline
- Combs, H. Jason. The South’s Slave Culture Transplanted to the Western Frontier
- Cope, Meghan, and Frank Latcham. Narratives of Decline: Race, Poverty, and Youth in the Context of Postindustrial Urban Angst
- Crawford, Madyson. An Ode to Belonging: Southern Black Women’s Politics of Belonging Through Storytelling
- Delaney, David. The Space That Race Makes
- Faria, Caroline; Bisola Falola; Jane Henderson; and Rebecca Maria Torres. A Long Way to Go: Collective Paths to Racial Justice in Geography
- Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Fatal Couplings of Power and Difference: Notes on Racism and Geography
- Grady, Sue, and Joe Darden, Spatial Methods to Study Local Racial Residential Segregation and Infant Health in Detroit, Michigan</a span data-ccp-props=”{“201341983″:0,”335559739″:160,”335559740″:259}”>
- Granger, Orman E. The Hydroclimatonomy of a Developing Tropical Island: A Water Resources Perspective
- Guthman, Julie. “If They Only Knew”: Color Blindness and Universalism in California Alternative Food Institutions
- Hamilton, Aretina R. & Kenneth Foote. Police Torture in Chicago: Theorizing Violence and Social Justice in a Racialized City
- Harwood, Stacy Anne, Ruby Mendenhall, Sang S. Lee, Cameron Riopelle & Margaret Browne Huntt. Everyday Racism in Integrated Spaces: Mapping the Experiences of Students of Color at a Diversifying Predominantly White Institution
- Heynan, Nik. Back to Revolutionary Theory Through Racialized Poverty: The McGee Family’s Utopian Struggle for Milwaukee
- Holloway, Steven R., Richard Wright & Mark Ellis. The Racially Fragmented City? Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Diversity Jointly Considered
- Ignatov, Anatoli. African Orature as Ecophilosophy: Tuning in to the Voices of the Land
- Inwood, Joshua and Derek Alderman. “The Care and Feeding of Power Structures”: Reconceptualizing Geospatial Intelligence through the Countermapping Efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 2019.
- Jordan, Demetrice; Ashton Shortridge; and Joe T. Darden. The Advancing Geography Through Diversity Program: A Framework to Address the Persistent Underrepresentation of Domestic Racial and Ethnic Minorities in U.S. Geography Doctoral Programs, 2022
- Kobayashi, Audrey. The Dialectic of Race and the Discipline of Geography
- Mburu, Lucy W. & Marco Helbich. Commuter-Harmonized Ambient Population
- Modlin, E. Arnold, Stephen P. Hanna, Perry L. Carter, Amy E. Potter, Candace Forbes Bright & Derek H. Alderman. Can Plantation Museums Do Full Justice to the Story of the Enslaved? A Discussion of Problems, Possibilities, and the Place of Memory
- Mollett, Sharlene. Mapping Deception: The Politics of Mapping Miskito and Garifuna Space in Honduras
- Moore, Adam and Nour Joudah. The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Decolonial Geopolitics, 2022
- Mullings, Beverley. Sides of the Same Coin?: Coping and Resistance among Jamaican Data-Entry Operators
- Noxolo, Patricia & Marika Preziuso. Approaching a “Fictionable” World through the Novels of Maryse Condé and Wilson Harris
- Osborne, Tracey, and Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza. Complicating Commodification of Ecosystem Services in Mexico’s Forests
- Palmer, Mark & Robert Rundstrom. GIS, Internal Colonialism, and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Peake, Linda and Audrey Kobayashi. Policies and Practices for an Antiracist Geography at the Millennium
- Ponder, C.S. Spatializing the Municipal Bond Market: Urban Resilience under Racial Capitalism, 2021
- Pulido, Laura <target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”> .White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California
- Pulido, Laura. Reflections on a White Discipline
- Pulido, Laura, Tianna Bruno, Cristina Galentine. Environmental Deregulation, <target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”> Spectacular <target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”> Racism, and White Nationalism in the Trump Era
- Rhiney, Kevon, Chris Knudson, & Zack Guido. Cultivating Crisis: Coffee, Smallholder Vulnerability, and the Uneven Sociomaterial Consequences of the Leaf Rust Epidemic in Jamaica
- Roberts, Andrea, and Maia L. Butler. Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women’s Emotional Geographies,
- Rose, Harold M. The Development of an Urban Subsystem: The Case of the Negro Ghetto
- Rose, Harold M. The Geography of Despair.
- Rufat, Samuel, Eric Tate, Christopher T. Emrich & Federico Antolini. How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models?
- Scott, Darius. Normalized Alterity: Visualizing Black Spatial Humanities
- Shimshon-Santo, Amy. How to Become Erasure Proof
- Tate, Eric. Uncertainty Analysis for a Social Vulnerability
- Torres, Rebecca Maria. Everyday Encounters with Activist Scholarship
- Tretter, Eliot M. The Power of Naming: The Toponymic Geographies of Commemorated African-Americans
- Valentine, Gill. Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality: A Challenge for Feminist Geography
- Wilson, Bobby. Race in Commodity Exchange and Consumption: Separate but Equal
- Wilson, Bobby. Critically Understanding Race-Connected Practices: A Reading of W. E. B. Du Bois and Richard Wrigh</a target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>t
- Wilson, David. Introduction: Racialized Poverty in U.S. Cities: Toward a Refined Racial Economy Perspective
- Wilson, John, Kevin Butler, Song Gao, Yingjie Hu, Wenwen Li & Dawn Wright. A five-star guide for achieving replicability and reproducibility when working with GIS software and algorithms
- Winders, Jamie, and Richard Schein. Race and Diversity: What Have We Learned?
- Winston, Celeste. Maroon Geographies
- Woods, Clyde. Life After Death
- Wright, Dawn J., Sally L. Duncan, and Denise Lach. Social Power and GIS Technology: A Review and Assessment of Approaches for Natural Resource Management
- Wright, Dawn J., Michael F. Goodchild, & James D. Proctor. Demystifying the Persistent Ambiguity of GIS as ‘Tool’ versus ‘Science’
- Wright, Willie Jamaal. The Morphology of Marronage
- Wright, Willie Jamaal. The Public Is Intellectual
Wyly, Elvin K. Race, Gender, and Spatial Segmentation in the Twin Cities - Yu, Shaolu. Placing Racial Triangulation, Triangulating Place and Race: Chinese Grocery Stores in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow Era