Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on a temporally and geographically scaled Black geographical praxis and history of place-making along New Orleans’s North Claiborne Avenue. Employing both visual and textual examinations of North Claiborne in the post-reconstruction moment, it argues for a representation and reading of Black geographical praxis, the everyday habits, spatial lives and geographical claims in and along such corridors, as a temporally scaled and capacious demand for a Black future. Analytically engaging through both text and collage, this paper argues for a new spatial analytic that can contest white supremacist spatial formations and focus on a vast imaginary of freedom.