The Black Geographic

“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

“The anthology . . . reminds us that Black geographic thought is a poetic practice, an epistemology, and an ontology.”

“A key strength of Hawthorne and Lewis’s project lies in their thoughtful outlining of ethical, methodological, and theoretical commitments while holding space for a still-unfolding set of questions and analytical concerns the theory-space of Black geographies has yet to claim.”

“[The Black Geographic establishes] worlds and ideas that reflect what it means to be Black in a white supremacist world in which Black geographies are invisible and forgotten, but still always producing space and life.”

“These contributors’ work shows the Black spatial imaginary’s capacity to presence Black life against, within, and beyond the anti-Black world-building projects of the past, present, and future.”

“Together, [contributors to The Black Geographic] chart another way of practicing geographic work that learns from life at the map’s margins.”