Classes

"How do we produce a vision that enables us to see beyond our immediate ordeals? How do we transcend bitterness and cynicism and embrace love, hope and an all-encompassing dream of freedom?”

 -- Kelley, RD (2002) Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Beacon Press
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My courses examine race as a central principle to how we make our society through where we live, where we work, and where we play. To understand geography as the relationship between people and place is to grapple with segregation – not a short history of Jim Crow laws, but a set of practices and policies that are the spatialization of White supremacy in our daily lives. I hope that my classes can be a space where students move from abolition as a hashtag to a set of consensus-based community practices to address harms and keep each other safe.