Category: new york city

african americans · new york city · spatial politics

Gramercy, my short film, is now live on Film Geographies’ website

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I am so excited. My short film “Gramercy” is now live on the Association for American Geographers’ website. If I understand it correctly, after this evening’s 5pm CST screening for the conference, anyone can view it by visiting this site. However, to watch the films you need to register first to grow AAG’s community of… Continue reading Gramercy, my short film, is now live on Film Geographies’ website

bohemia · new york city

how she became hettie jones

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My “Gender, Race and Urban Space” course moves this week to postwar Greenwich Village and the experiences of writer Hettie Jones, former wife of poet-activist Amiri Baraka. Her movements away from her suburban Queens home to one of the centers for creative output and radical politics after World War II pose tensions with those of… Continue reading how she became hettie jones