Geographic needs-patriarchal, economic, imperial, academic, and sexual needs-therefore repetitively enact racism (not simply "race") and other discriminatory practices, enforcing what Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes as "a death-dealing displacement of difference into hierarchies that organize relations within and between the planet's sovereign political territories." 25 Gilmore's call to racialize geographic patterns is useful in that she clarifies that race and racism are serious geographic projects and processes despite the disciplinary disconnection. The philosophical and analytical disconnection between "black" and "geography" undermines the very real, and very meaningful, ways in which the world is organized. This is crucial because the ways in which geographic knowledges are produced and materialized in the built environment in fact synthesizes the ostensibly bifurcated geographic paths. Gilmore, then, offers one way to reframe race, racism, geography, and the discipline of human geography by illustrating how academic, ontological, representational, and material locations are meaningfully connective because blackness "is a spatially and temporally differentiated produced, and real, condition of existence and category of analysis. "26 The connection between geography and blackness is crucial to identifying some of the conditions under which race/racism are necessary to the production of space. The interplay between black experiences in the diaspora, past and present, and spatial organization, are tightly bound in two interconnected ways: black historical and contemporary subjects have not only contributed to the strenuous physical production of space and place in the diaspora (through slave labor, indentured labor, and racially and sexually differentiated labor economies), they also have an investment in the meanings and makings of place due to racial displacement, forced exile, homelessness, rented and owned dwellings, poverty, integration, segregation, political sites, professionalization, community gatherings and locales, nationalism(s), activism, and globalization.
Geographic needs-patriarchal, economic, imperial, academic, and sexual needs-therefore repetitively enact racism and other discriminatory practices, enforcing "a death-dealing displacement of difference into hierarchies that organize relations within and between the planet's sovereign political territories." The philosophical and analytical disconnection between "black" and "geography" undermines the very real, and very meaningful, ways in which the world is organized. his is crucial because the ways in which geographic knowledges are produced and materialized in the built environment in fact synthesizes the ostensibly bifurcated geographic paths one way to reframe race, racism, geography, and the discipline of human geography by illustrating how academic, ontological, representational, and material locations are meaningfully connective because blackness "is a spatially and temporally differentiated produced, and real, condition of existence and category of analysis. he connection between geography and blackness is crucial to identifying some of the conditions under which race/racism are necessary to the production of space. black experiences in the diaspora, and spatial organization, are tightly bound in two interconnected ways: black historical and contemporary subjects have not only contributed to the strenuous physical production of space and place in the diaspora also an investment in the meanings and makings of place due to racial displacement, forced exile, homelessness, rented and owned dwellings, poverty, integration, segregation, political sites, professionalization, community gatherings and locales, nationalism(s), activism, and globalization.