No name in the street
Unknowability, Black women, and missing geographies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Mallory (0000-0003-4872-4465, Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 114-128 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02637758231206899 |
| OpenAlex | W4388304040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
Renisha McBride, who was killed by a white homeowner while seeking help after a car crash, made national headlines due to her murderer's stand your ground defense failing to absolve him of manslaughter charges. This article argues that a key factor in McBride's justice claims were the unknown characteristics of her encounter with the murderer that allowed family members to advocate on her behalf. Using the Black Feminist concept of unknowability, I look at how news media discourses about McBride's unknown space and time prior to her encounter made her invisible while facilitating the continuous questioning of the events that night. Through an analysis of McBride's negative portrayals in news media and court proceedings along with family members' testimonies, I consider the ways unknowability affords Black women the ability to move from geographies of invisibility to visibility through a constant questioning of Black women's relationship to space. I argue that unknowability allowed McBride to obtain some form of juridical justice
Criminology · Economic Justice · Geography · Invisibility · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Visibility · White (mutation · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Law in Society and Culture
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In the Wake
Life After Death
Babylon Girls
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Habeas Viscus
Environmental Justice, Unknowability and Unqualified Affectability
An other geography
Fear of an other geography
Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing
Missing geographies
Necropolitics, Narcopolitics, and Femicide
Mathematics Black Life
Dear Science and Other Stories
Mapping the Margins
Pornotropes
Between Space and Time
Urban geography II
Rewriting the American Self
The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner
The Morphology of Marronage
Maroon Geographies
Venus in Two Acts
On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place
Why Is the Time Always Right for White and Wrong For Us? How Racialized Youth Make Sense of Whiteness and Temporal Inequality
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |