Rosa Parks Redux
Racial Mobility Projects on the Journey to Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3775444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Virginia Parks (0000-0002-7595-9596) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00045608.2015.1100061 |
| OpenAlex | W2291681162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 27 |
The iconic image of Rosa Parks sitting at the front of a bus documents the most famous commute in history. Rosa Parks was traveling home from work when she refused to give her seat to a white passenger in 1955, an act of civil disobedience that set the Montgomery bus boycott in motion and propelled civil rights onto the national stage. Sixty years later, cities in the putatively postracial era continue to generate profound racial inequalities. Drawing on Rosa Parks's defiant commute as a framing device, I situate the journey to work as a racial mobility project that extends from historic urban processes of racial discrimination, reveals lived experiences of intersectional inequality, and generates future racial disparities. I define commuting as a racial mobility project that organizes, redistributes, and mobilizes resources along racial lines in conjunction with the movement of bodies across space. This framework links the discourses of race and mobility, both of which highlight the dynamics of politics and power. By positioning the journey to work as a racial mobility project, this article seeks to resituate the commute for geographers—conceptually, empirically, and politically—at the nexus of geography, mobility, and the struggle for racial justice in the city
Boycott · Framing (construction · Geography · Inequality · Mobilities · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Gender Studies · Law
Grown Close to HomeTM
Re-working mobilities
Mobility, Protest, and Legislative Backlash
Gender differences in commuting travel in the U.S
The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City
Urban transport as a social construct
A Critical Yoga Studies Approach to Grappling with Race
Navigating Everyday Otherness
Toward an expanded approach on Black mobilities
Who has long commutes to low-wage jobs? Gender, race, and access to work in the New York region
Mobilities III
Shadow mobilities
The Urban Experience
Reexamining the Montgomery Bus Boycott
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization
Low-Wage Women Workers
Gender, Race, and the Determinants of Commuting
Racial Differences in the Commuting Behavior of Women in Buffalo, 1980-1990
Geography and the Political Economy of Urban Transportation
The Wage Effects of Residential Location and Commuting Constraints on Employed Married Women
The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
The Contradictions of Capital and Mass Transit
The Uneven Geography of Racial and Ethnic Wage Inequality
Work Together, Live Apart? Geographies of Racial and Ethnic Segregation at Home and at Work
Job Search and the Occupational Segregation of Women
The legacies of the U.S. Civil Rights Act, fifty years on
How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution
The spatialities of contentious politics
At the Dark End of the Street
Right to Ride
Job Relocation and the Racial Gap in Unemployment in Detroit and Chicago, 1980 to 1990
Access to Work
Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women
Racial Orders in American Political Development
Framing Processes and Social Movements
Black-White Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |