Tag Archives: space and place

Communities of Possibilities

By yvonnegrapher | Published: October 1, 2009
This was first published on RaceWire. The concept of community is an ever-shifting one. It first becomes applied to movements for social change after World War II, when a dissatisfied social worker Saul Alinksy shifted his efforts into organizing urban communities, based on geographic proximity. He was the first recognizable community organizer that developed a model beyond [...]
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Black Kids on Bikes

By yvonnegrapher | Published: June 27, 2009
Once a month, a movement courses through the streets of Los Angeles. Moving together, in solidarity, Black cyclists are spurred forward by the revolutions of their wheels. Each individual coming together to join the flood that takes over the streets. Their momentum stirs the air, setting in motion a gale that blows clear across the [...]
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Empire Strikes Black

By yvonnegrapher | Published: May 11, 2009
“I want to join the Starfleet Academy!” I exclaimed to a colleague when leaving the theater. Watching the new Star Trek movie left me with a sense of optimism about intergalactic governance, a desire to trust and give of myself wholly to the Federation, who will school me, train me on how to [...]
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Tent City

By yvonnegrapher | Published: April 25, 2009
“Excuse me, where’s the tent city?” The man with matted dreadlocks and a weathered face from the sun squinted at me. He wore a white tee shirt grey with wear and slung a tattered jean jacket over his shoulder, hot from the afternoon sun. “Why would you want to go there?” Why indeed. Like [...]
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Human Geography: A New Journal

By yvonnegrapher | Published: February 21, 2008
Human Geography: A New Journal Published by the Institute for Human Geography Inc, a non-profit charitable foundation incorporated in the State of Massachusetts, US. Mass ID number 000971232 Address: P.O. Box 307, Bolton, Massachusetts, 01740-0307 US Email Address: insthugeog at gmail.com Call for submissions and donations We are starting a new journal in Human Geography broadly [...]
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