BlackGirl Geography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8097300 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Loren S Cahill (The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 47-62 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2019.120306 |
| OpenAlex | W2986086550 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Blackgirls have a long subaltern legacy of being geographers. We have complicated the settler-colonial project of cartography uniquely through our radical placemaking efforts towards achieving safety, inclusion, and liberation. In this autoethnographic article, I trace my own socio-spatial-sensory reflections that I experienced during my visit to Harriet Tubman’s Homeplace, Senior Home, and Grave Site in Auburn, New York. I attempt to unsettle the undertheorized renderings of Tubman by interrogating her personal freedom dreams, liberation geography, and womanist cartography. I then map the intergenerational solidarity that Blackgirls have forged with Tubman more contemporarily through their own space making. I conclude by unpacking what ontological lessons both knowledge producers and organizers can glean from Tubman’s geographic sacredness and savvy
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Geography · Inclusion (mineral · Making-of · Management · Materiality (auditing · Placemaking · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · Solidarity · Subaltern · White (mutation · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |