Camilla Hawthorne is Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean, and coeditor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship.

Jovan Scott Lewis is Associate Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa, also published by Duke University Press, and Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica.

Introduction. Black Geographies: Material Praxis of Black Life and Study / Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis 1
Part I. Praxis
1. Call Us Alive Someplace: Du Boisian Methods and Living Black Geographies / Danielle Purifoy 27
2. Shaking the Basemap / Judith Madera 50
3. “My Bad Attitude toward the Pastoral”: Race, Place, and Allusion in the Poetry of C. S. Giscombe / Chiyuma Elliott 72
Part II. Resistances
4. Blackness Out of Place and In Between in the Sahara / Ampson Hagan 97
5. Words Re(en)visioned: Black and Indigenous Languages for Autonomy / Diana Negrin 124
6. Blackness in the (Post)Colonial African City / Jordanna Matlon 145
7. Mariella Franco and Black Spatial Imaginaries / Solange Munoz 167
Part III. Futurity
8. Rendering Gentrification and Erasing Race: Sustainable Development and the (Re)visioning of Oakland, California, as a Green City / C. N. E. Corbin 189
9. “Need Black Joy?”: Mapping an Afrotechtonics of Gathering in Los Angeles / Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta 213
10. The San Francisco Blues / Lindsey Dillon 246
11. Today Like Yesterday, Tomorrow Like Today: Black Geographies in the Breaks of the Fourth Dimension / Anna Livia Brand 264
12. A Black Geographic Reverie & Reckoning in Ink and Form / Sharita Towne 287
Contributors 323
Index 327