Recent work by critical geographers on race has emphasized the social construction of race and its articulation with other identities and class processes. This report reviews some of this critical geography literature, focusing especially on discussions of the articulations between race and radical politics in North American contexts.
Bonds, A.2009: Discipline and devolution: constructions of poverty, race, and criminality in the politics of rural prison development. Antipode41, 416-38.
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Braun, B.2002: The intemperate rain forest: nature, culture, and power on Canada’s west coast. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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Gilmore, R.W.2002: Fatal couplings of power and difference: notes on racism and geography. Professional Geographer54, 15-24.
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Gilmore, R.W.2007: Golden gulag: prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Gilroy, P.1991: The Black Atlantic: modernity and double consciousness . London: Verso.
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Gilroy, P.2000: Against race: imagining political culture beyond the color line. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and Belknap Press.
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Hall, S.1980: Race, articulation, and societies structured in dominance . In Guillaumin, C., editor, Sociological theories: race and colonialism, Paris: UNESCO, 305-45.
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Harris, C.2003: Making native space: colonialism, resistance, and reserves in British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
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Hart, G.2002: Disabling globalization: places of power in post-apartheid South Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Heynen, N.2009a: Bending the bars of empire from every ghetto for survival: the Black Panther Party’s radical antihunger politics of social reproduction and scale. Annals of the Association of American Geographers99, 406-22.
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Heynen, N.2009b: Back to revolutionary theory through racialized poverty: the McGee family’s utopian struggle for Milwaukee. The Professional Geographer61, 187-99.
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Klein, N.2009: Obama’s big silence: the race question. Has the president turned his back on black America?The Guardian 12 September. Retrieved 8 October 2009 from http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/sep/12/barack-obama-the-race-question-naomi-klein/print
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Mann, G.2007: Our daily bread: wages, workers, and the political economy of the American West. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
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Mathani, M.2006: Challenging the ivory tower: proposing anti-racist geography within the academy. Gender, Place and Culture13, 21-25.
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Omi, M. and Winant, H.1986: Racial formation in the United States: from the 1960s to the 1980s. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Peake, L. and Kobayashi, A.2002: Policies and practices for an anti-racist geography at the millennium. Professional Geographer54, 50-61.
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Pratt, G.2004: Working feminism. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
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Pulido, L.2002: Reflections on a white discipline. Professional Geographer54, 42-49.
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Pulido, L.2006: Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: radical activism in Los Angeles. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Rosati, C.2007a: MTV: 360° of the industrial production of culture . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS32, 556-75.
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Rosati, C.2007b: Media politics: uncovering the spatial politics of images . Geography Compass1, 995-1014.
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Slocum, R.2006: Anti-racist practice and the work of community food organizations . Antipode38, 327-49.
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Slocum, R.2007: Whiteness, space, and alternative food practice. Geoforum38, 520-33.
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Sundberg, J. and Kaserman, B.2007: Cactus carvings and desert defecations: embodying representations of border crossings in protected areas on the Mexico-US border. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space25, 727-44.
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Tyner, J.2006: The geography of Malcolm X: Black radicalism and the remaking of American space. New York: Routledge .
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Wilson, D.2009: Introduction: racialized poverty in US cities: towards a refined racial economy perspective. The Professional Geographer61, 139-49.
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Wright, M.2006: Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism . New York: Routledge.