... racial landscape racial citizenship mestizaje critical geography Frontier Thesis transnational American studies heterotemporality settler colonialism ...

... New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Racial landscapes Lower Ninth Ward urban planning ...

... In the introduction I contend that Mexican and U.S. geographies are the effect of visualizing indios and Indians in landscape. If national boundaries and the way in which we visualize national geographies are derived from the racializing of space through the figure of the Indian, then "racial...

.... By exposing the racial violence of the Southwest and through an exploration of his own racial trauma, Acosta reclaims this racial landscape for the brown buffalo people and Aztlán. East L.A. Thirteen Biltmore Six Chicana/o nationalism Aztlán melancholic incorporation psychic repression racial...

... lines, where all geographies are Black and Black residents are home. New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Racial landscapes Lower Ninth Ward urban planning ...

... From its origin in 1845, the police department in New York City had to explicitly consider the racial landscape in the city, as Irish and German immigrants came to the United States and as New York's Black community of free and self-emancipated people were forced to defend their freedom because...

... of the porch and second lines, where all geographies are Black and Black residents are home. New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Racial landscapes Lower Ninth Ward urban planning This chapter uses art as a container for Black collective inquiry and art as Black geographic praxis. It describes...

... The coda returns to the dissipation of ethno-racial markers in Latinx literature by considering Hernan Diaz’s novel In the Distance (2017) as a Latinx novel in disguise. Telling the story of a young Swedish immigrant who attempts to make his way to New York from California in the mid...

... While traversing landscapes of tech-induced gentrification in Cluj, Romania, Silicon Valley Imperialism begins by illustrating convergent processes of Siliconization, property reprivatization, and racial banishment. It also investigates technological predation by Western companies that seek...

... “Ruinous Foundations of Progressive Segregation, 1920s–1950s” returns to city hall's intensified racial biopolitical fantasy of a white city through the forging of a contradictory space of industrialization and residential segregation. Through a series of commissions culminating in racial...

...Racial Palimpsest Part 1, “Racial Palimpsest,” diagnoses layered conjunctures in South Africa's twentieth century seen from the changing geographies of South Durban, where the Durban City Council imagined fulfilling its fantasy of building a white city. With very thin knowledge of ground...

... elaborated a contradictory landscape. Chapter 1, “Remains of a Camp: Biopolitical Fantasies of a ‘White Man's Country,’ 1902–1904,” rethinks community work in Wentworth in the 2000s, from the introduction, in light of late-Victorian biopolitical fantasies of gendered whiteness and racial government...

... “Settlements of Memory: Forgeries of Life in Common, 1900–1930s” turns to spatial histories of dispossession and settlement in Durban's interstices and peripheries, through which Indian peasant-workers collectively refashioned selves and landscapes to root themselves in an interstitial geography...

... Chapter 2 builds on the first chapter’s focus on the abstract dimension of capitalist social relations—personified by Chinese labor—by turning its attention to the concrete dimension of capitalist social relations personified in artistic depictions of the settler landscape. Turning...

... stove, selecting perishables for their fridge life, and the nuclearization of the family meal. Appropriately squaring the cold chain’s development against seminal histories, the patriarchal underpinnings of refrigeration find present-day manifestations across the country’s necropolitical landscape...

... This introduction elaborates the prologue’s interpretation of George Morrison’s Collage IX: Landscape by linking to a reading of an even larger collage displayed on the exterior wall of the Minneapolis American Indian Center. Using this piece as a focal point, the introduction outlines...

... This chapter investigates the significance of the apocalyptic landscape and zombie figure in Díaz’s short story “Monstro.” It focuses on the zombie within the Caribbean context to suggest that this particular incarnation mirrors the history of capital-based societies with their Western...

... “The Birth of Biopolitical Struggle, 1940s” revisits the violence of biopolitical territorialization in the previous chapter through the insights of Black radical feminist critique that also emerged in this conjuncture in particularly powerful ways. The articulation of racial biopolitics...

..., or Halfie,” in Drown , as a fictional exploration of the corrosive effects of the racial self-hatred that remains a legacy of European colonialism for people of color in the Americas. The essay illuminates that, for all their temporal, generic, stylistic, gender, and sexual differences, Díaz and Lorde...