Visualizing Racial Equity
Race and place come together in various ways that generate different outcomes for different people. Too often, this results in racial inequity and social injustice. And none of this happens solely at one moment in time. These outcomes are a consequence of decades, generations, and centuries of policies, practices, assumptions, and actions. Esri’s racial equity…
Race Ethnicity and Place (REP) VIII Conference
The Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference fosters dialogue on a range of issues related to the racial and ethnic transformation of places. It encourages interdisciplinary perspectives, philosophical and methodological diversity, and professional and student perspectives on such issues. The conference is committed to providing high quality programs and remaining open to broad participation by theoreticians, practitioners, and students.…
Race Ethnicity and Place VIII Conference Scheduled for 2016
The Race Ethnicity and Place (REP) VIII Conference will be held Sept. 21 - 23, 2016, at Kent State University. The program committee welcomes paper, poster and panel presentations on any theme related to race, ethnicity and place. Perspectives are welcomed from a variety of disciplines and from professionals and students involved in race/ethnicity studies. For specific…
The Rebirth of Black Rage
There are two quotes from September 2, 2005, that
have become fixtures in our cultural and political language, and each sums up the ways in which Americans with differing perspectives came to view the disaster of Hurricane Katrina. The first is from George W. Bush: Five days after Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast region,…
Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans
This anniversary is a crossroads, a time
to decide what to run toward and what to cast aside for a lighter burden. Ten years ago, I was a “refugee” from an American city. The consequence of that label has been a chaos of circumstances and quick decisions. The first 10 years, all a scramble to…
Op-Ed: Make Civil Rights a Geography Awareness Week Theme
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial By Night - Washington DC (Glyn Lowe via Compfight) We have thought for some time now that it would be educationally productive to have a Geography Awareness Week theme devoted to civil rights. Tragically, events over the summer—especially the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South…
Mona Domosh’s Past President’s Address on Genealogies of Race, Gender, and Place
In her Past President’s address at the 2016 AAG Annual Meeting, Mona Domosh will explore the interconnected historical geographies of race, gender, and place. She will consider how race and racisms have been entangled with spatial imaginaries and place-based materialities throughout much of American history and geography, and how these entanglements continue to shape raced…
AAG to feature theme on racism, violence at Florida conference
“We would be remiss, while in Tampa, to not collectively consider the broader implications of the death of Trayvon Martin and the complex and disturbing trial that followed, and to explore our potential contributions to a path forward,” says AAG President Julie Winkler. For this reason, "Racism and Violence in America: Fifty Years since the…