Berkeley Black Geographies is committed to the material study of Black life and guided by the principal assertion that Blackness cannot be reduced to cultural abstraction or mere corporeal phenomena. Geography' is pursued as a productive analytic capable of exploring, examining, and determining the lived experiences of Blackness, its conceptual limits, and theoretical purchase. BBG approaches Blackness as an analytical modality that gives insight and shape to the concepts and processes of spatial formation. Race and place are understood as mutually constituted and that operationally linked and social and political processes are inherently determined by spatial relations that can never be fully understood without a racial (understood as Black) analysis. For more information on the BBGP, click here.
"Racial Reverberations: Music, Dance, and Disturbance in Oakland After Black Power" by Alexander J. Werth
"Making Room For Black Feminist Praxis In Geography: A Dialogue Between Camilla Hawthorne and Brittany Meche" by Camilla Hawthorne and Brittany Meche
"Sunflower’s Oakland: The Black Geographic Image as a Site of Reclamation" by Kaily Heitz
"The Philosophy of Black Insurgency" by Kerby Lynch
"mourning my inner [blackgirl] child" by reelaviolette botts-ward
"Campus Tours of Duty: Unsettling Everyday Militarisms Through Walking" by Robert Moeller and Gabi Kirk
Jane Henderson: The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King
april l. graham-jackson: Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life by Brandon LaBelle
Morgan P. Vickers: Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett
Robert Moeller: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney