Mapping for Justice: SNCC, Countermapping and the Effort to Understand Racial Capital in 1960s America
Topics: Black Geographies
, Cartography
, Cultural Geography
Keywords: Counter-Mapping, Race, Civil Rights, Cartography, Resistance, Black Geographies
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Friday
Session Start / End Time: 2/25/2022 03:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/25/2022 05:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 48
Authors:
Joshua Inwood, Pennsylvania State University
Derek Alderman, University of Tennessee
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Abstract
This presentation advances two interrelated arguments. First, by focusing on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) Research Department, an undertheorized chapter in the civil rights movement, we advance an expressly spatialized understanding of the African American freedom struggle. Second, by focusing on an SNCC-produced pamphlet titled The Care and Feeding of Power Structures, we advance a larger historical geography of geospatial agency and countermapping of racial capital within black civil rights struggles. SNCC’s research praxis, which we argue constitutes a radical geospatial intelligence project, recognizes that geographical methods, information, and analytical insights are not just the purview of experts but are a set of political tools and processes deployed by a wide range of groups. Our presentation develops a deeper understanding of the rich spatial practices underlying black geographies and the role of geospatial intelligence in a democratic society outside the military–industrial–academic complex. There is considerable contemporary significance for Geographers interrogating racial capital through an understanding of SNCC counter-mapping.
Mapping for Justice: SNCC, Countermapping and the Effort to Understand Racial Capital in 1960s America
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