{"title":"“Kick, Push”: Skating for Space and Joy","authors":"Suzanne Nimoh","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.a899706","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The field of Black Geographies invites scholars to upend dominant cartographies in favor of bringing Black placemaking to the forefront of our work. Following this call, this essay explores Black play through roller skating and positions Black street skaters as creative geographers, transforming quotidian urban environments into arenas of public adventure. Using their personal experiences as a skater, the author discusses the intersections of disability and race to explore global Black skate geographies. The experiences of skaters contribute to critical geography, offering creative utilizations of public space and embodied relationships with the built environment’s infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"20 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a899706","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The field of Black Geographies invites scholars to upend dominant cartographies in favor of bringing Black placemaking to the forefront of our work. Following this call, this essay explores Black play through roller skating and positions Black street skaters as creative geographers, transforming quotidian urban environments into arenas of public adventure. Using their personal experiences as a skater, the author discusses the intersections of disability and race to explore global Black skate geographies. The experiences of skaters contribute to critical geography, offering creative utilizations of public space and embodied relationships with the built environment’s infrastructure.
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In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.
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