Cartographic Memory

“Cartographic Memory is a creative, important, and well-written book that offers a vital analysis of Latinx activism in Oakland. Juan Herrera’s concept of social movement continuities helps us analyze the range of ways that actors make social change, rather than only focusing on the most radical politics or certain epic moments. Herrera’s book is an outstanding contribution toward building a nuanced and complex understanding of Latinx social movements.” - Victoria Lawson, author of Making Development Geography

“Cartographic Memory makes an important contribution to understanding how the Chicano movement emerged from specific spaces and in relationship to the more well-documented Black Power movement. Juan Herrera’s concept of cartographic memory provides a beautiful new way of mapping ongoing and unfinished social movement traditions and dreams. His writing is clear and compelling, and his voice and storytelling bring you to the neighborhood, to the front porch, and into movement leaders’ memories and archives.” - Erica Kohl-Arenas, author of The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty

“In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera carefully and elegantly examines Chicano movement activism and its legacies in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale neighborhood. . . . In these two ways—its analysis of the movement’s dynamic production of space, and in its focus on Oakland—Cartographic Memory is a signal achievement.” - Laura Barraclough, Society and Space

"This book will helpfully inform the next generation of geographers, activists, and students on the crucial impact space has on social movements, and the ways social movements shape space and place." - Aída R. Guhlincozzi, Environment, Space, Place

"In Cartographic Memory, Herrera shares with us his process of understanding Fruitvale, California, a part of the Bay Area just south of Oakland, and how it has emerged in relation to community activism. Herrera offers a twist on autoethnographic practice because he is not from Fruitvale but becomes a member of that community over time. This book traces how a sense of belonging forms through the interpersonal practice of research." - Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder, MELUS

"Cartographic Memory is a well argued and important addition to the historiographies of social movement history and geographic place-­making." - Jazmin Muñoz, Journal of American Ethnic History