Abstract
This article argues that work on geographies of Blackness and Black Geographies emphasizes different aspects of Black experiences and relies on different methodologies in making these emphases. I focus on the work of six prominent geographers who engage with questions of Blackness and examine the different data sources they draw on. I show that they all employ a multi-method, interdisciplinary approach in their scholarship and that all of them, regardless of emphasis or method, foreground the experiences of black populations. I argue that this collective multi-method approach pushes the conceptual boundaries of the wider discipline of Geography.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1003-1021 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author would like to thank Chris Courtheyn for constructive and helpful feedback during initial drafts of this article; Madelaine Cahuas for critical insights on later iterations of the article; three anonymous reviewers for help in clarifying the article's main arguments; and Nina Laurie for supportive editorial guidance throughout. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords
- Black Geographies
- Black Studies
- geographies of blackness
- methodologies
- methods