Dr. Solange Muñoz
Book Details
The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity
Honoree Information
Dr. Solange Muñoz
Associate Professor
Geography
Occasion
On the occasion of Dr. Solange Muñoz's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
Why Chosen
The Black Geographic explores the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities, literary criticism, and art to show how understanding the spatial dimensions of Black life contributes to a broader understanding of race and space. They examine key sites of inquiry: Black spatial imaginaries, resistance to racial violence, the geographies of racial capitalism, and struggles over urban space. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that Blackness is itself a situating and place-making force, even as it is shaped by spatial processes and diasporic routes.