I Wish

Authors

  • DeWitt King Department of Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine

Keywords:

Black Geographies, education, kinship, academic knowledge production, letters

Abstract

The letter charts my relationship to geography through a letter to Donald Deskin Jr. From Black geographer junior scholar to pioneering Black geographer, this letter uses Black geographies as an analytic to think through Black geographical knowledge, practice and kinship.

References

Deskins Jr., Donald R. 1969. “Geographical Literature on the American Negro, 1949–1968: A Bibliography.” The Professional Geographer 21 (3): 145-149.

———. 1972. “Race, Residence, and Workplace in Detroit, 1880 to 1965.” Economic Geography 48 (1): 79-94.

———. 1981. “MORPHOGENESIS OF A BLACK GHETTO.” Urban Geography 2 (2): 95-114.

Huntley, Eric Robsky, and Matthew Rosenblum. 2020. “The Omega Affair: Discontinuing the University of Michigan Department of Geography (1975–1982).” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111 (2): 364-384.

A collage of photos and materials provided by issue authors. These include: a photo of a landscape with stars shining above a curved snowy road disappearing into a wooded horizon along the coast of Gichigami/Lake Superior; a cutout of cursive text written by Caitilin McMillan’s mother that reads “to the world's best heart”; a photo of Neelofer Qadir’s hand holding colorful postcards in front of the blue water of Gris Gris, Mauritius; a handwritten letter in Spanish dated August 1983 from Alana de Hinojosa’s grandmother to her mother, Evelina “Bebe”, asking for her to come back home to Calexico, California; a black-and-white troll block print and a Valentine's Day card with porcupine quills piercing a red-and-black heart and the handwritten message “Happy Valentines Day! Contains two genuine porcupine quills, picked clean by ravens. Love, Elspeth”; a black-and-white photograph of Dr. Donald Deskins Jr. in a three-point stance wearing a football uniform; a colourful poster with doves and peace flowers and text that reads “Viva! Viva! Palestina!”; an orange envelope reading “don't you dare write back!” with a hand-drawn scowling figure; a screenshot of a Zoom grid of smiling attendees at the American Association of Geographers 2021 Desirable Futures sessions; and background text and images from valentines written by Elspeth Iralu.

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Published

2024-04-15

How to Cite

King, D. (2024). I Wish . ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 23(2), 153–155. Retrieved from https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/2382

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2024): Desirable Futures

Section

Special Issue: Desirable Futures

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