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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Abolishing Poverty: Toward Pluriverse Futures and Politics
  7. Chapter 1. Of Promise and Problem: The Poverty Politics of Recognition, Race, and Community in Tulsa, Oklahoma
  8. Chapter 2. The Whiteness of Poverty Studies: Abolishing Poverty and Engaging Relational Politics
  9. Chapter 3. Relationality as Resistance: Dismantling Colonialism and Racial Capitalism
  10. Chapter 4. Anonymous Communion: Black Queer Communities and Anti-Black Violence within the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
  11. Chapter 5. Compassionate Solidarities: Nos/Otras and a Nepantla Praxis of Care
  12. Chapter 6. Refusal, Service, and Collective Agency: The Everyday and Quiet Resistance of Black Southern Activists
  13. Chapter 7. Storying Relations: A Method in Pursuit of Collective Liberation
  14. Contributors
  15. Index

INDEX

AAG (American Association of Geographers), 168–169, 174–176, 177

abolition: of lethal liberalism(s), 19

of poverty concept, 51, 63, 65

of poverty studies, 8, 17, 18, 21, 49

academia: accountable relationality in, 63–65, 164–167, 169–174, 176, 177–180

authorship in, 13, 14–16

white/colonial gaze in, 175, 177, 180n3

white epistemologies in, 51, 57, 59–63. See also space(s): academic

academic space(s). See space(s): academic

accountable relationality: in academia, 63–65, 164–167, 169–174, 176, 177–180

in activism, 133

in collective authorship, 15– 16

in poverty studies, abolition of, 51– 52

relational politics and, 20–21. See also relationality

Action Mission Ministry (AMM). See Wheat Street Baptist Church

activists and activism: care and, 118–120, 121, 122–123

LGBT+, 96, 98, 100, 104, 108–113

beyond liberalism, 5

nepantla strategies of, 124, 126, 136–138

quiet, 141–142, 147–149, 154–156, 157–158

of racialized communities, learning from, 8–12, 19–21

relationality and, 123–124

scholarly, 16–17

solidarity across different groups of, 127–128, 132–133

visible versus invisible, 174. See also specific individuals and groups

ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), 96

African American communities. See Black communities

Alexander, Michelle, 56

Amelia (Educare participant), 33

American Association of Geographers (AAG), 168–169, 174–176

AMM (Action Mission Ministry). See Wheat Street Baptist Church

Anishinaabe people, 170–171

anti-Blackness: in academia, 57

de-Indianization and, in racial capitalism, 71, 84

gender and sexuality in, 6, 19

of HOPE VI developments, 62

in LGBT+ communities, 95–99, 100–101, 102–107, 109, 110–113

“people of color” term and, 163

racialized communities and, 16, 171–173, 178–179

relationality as counter to, 163, 171– 173, 177–180. See also white supremacy

Anzaldúa, Gloria: on bridge building, 172

influence of, 168

on nepantla and nos/otras, 117, 118, 119, 123–124, 129, 137

on solidarity, 126, 132

Arday, Jason, 57

As We Have Always Done (L. B. Simpson), 172

Athena Co-Learning Collective, 14

Atlanta, Ga.: Black communities in, 148–149, 158

LGBT+ communities in, Black, 97–99, 107–113

Wheat Street Baptist Church in, 143–144, 152–153, 155

Auburn Avenue. See Wheat Street Baptist Church

Bailey, Marlon M., 106

Balderrama, Francisco E., 29

Barbershops, Bibles and BET (Harris-Lacewell), 153

Beam, Joseph, 111

Benavidez, Andrea, 128

Benavidez, Barlow, 128

Bennett College activists, 159n1

Berkeley, Calif., 125–126

Biden, Joe, 48

BIPOC communities: future of, 177–180

in geographic organization of power, 120–121

radical traditions of, 119, 121, 137–138

relationality in collective liberation of, 5, 162–166, 166–169, 169–174

spaces for, 174– 178

student activists in, 128

use of term, 163

whiteness and impoverishment of, 54

women of color feminists on, 122. See also Brown people; racialized communities; and specific communities

Black communities: care networks of, alternative, 121–122

cultural production of, appropriation of, 105–106

deservingness and, ideas of, 35

education on, 130

Mexican migrants and, 17–18

racialized subjectivity of, 38–39

social services and, experiences with, 30–31, 32–33, 34, 39– 40, 43

suffering of, in scholarly analysis, 119. See also LGBT+ communities: Black; women: Black; and specific individuals, and groups, and places

Black Corona (Gregory), 121

Black Food Geographies (Reese), 153

Black LGBT+ communities. See LGBT+ communities: Black

Black Panther Party (BPP), 19, 117, 125–126, 134–135, 148

Black Power movement, 20, 147–148, 157

Black radicalism, 10, 64, 65, 127, 147, 165, 174

Black Shoals, The (T. L. King), 165, 178

Black women. See women: Black

Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo, 77

Borders, William Holmes, 142

Boris, Eileen, 149

BPP. See Black Panther Party

Bracero Program, 29, 76, 82, 90n2

Brady, Mary Pat, 168

bridge builders/leaders, 89, 144, 172

Bridges, Fabian Calvin: media portrayal of, 99–101

significance of, 95–98, 102–106, 107–112

British Columbia, 166, 172

Brown, Claude, 127

Brown, Shameca, 35, 39–40

Brown people: in Mexico, 34, 41

use of term, 180n1

Bush, Faye, 149–150, 151, 155

Cáceres, Berta, 90

Cacho, Lisa Marie, 34, 82

CACR (collective agency and community resilience), 146–147, 154–156

California, 120, 125–126, 172

Campt, Tina, 145

Canada, 166, 167, 170–171, 172

Canton, Berta, 129

capitalism. See racial capitalism

Carmen (Educare participant), 32

CASA (Center for Autonomous Social Action), 131–132

categories, social. See ontologies

CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 109

Center for Family Resilience (OSU), 28, 39

Chan, Henry, 133

Chavez, Cesar, 132

Chicago, Ill., eviction in, 7

Chicago School, 55

Chicana feminism, 73–74

Chicano Movement, 19, 131–132, 135, 138n4

Chicanx communities. See Latinx communities; Mexican migrants

China, 134–135

Chinita (migrant), 83–84

citizenship: collective versus individual, 19, 86, 87, 88–89

in liberal governance, 49

sexual, 20, 96, 98, 102–103, 107, 112

U.S., denied to Mexicans, 80. See also personhood

Civil Rights movement: divisions challenged by, 122

humanity valued by, 157

influence of, 20, 125, 143, 150, 158

service in, 147–148

Claudia (Educare participant), 31–32

Cleveland, Ohio, 99–100

CNP (Counter Narrative Project), 110–112, 113

Cohen, Cathy, 104

collective agency and community resilience (CACR), 146–147, 154–156

colleges. See academia

colonial capitalism. See racial capitalism

colonialism. See settler colonialism

communality, relational, 72, 86–90

communities, racialized. See racialized communities; and specific communities

Cone, James, 157

constellation(s) (relation), 11, 20–21, 164, 166, 172–174, 180n2

Contreras, Mariano, 131–133, 135, 137

Corntassel, Jeff, 10

Coulthard, Glen, 11

Counter Narrative Project (CNP), 110–112, 113

COVID-19, 1–2, 15, 21

Critical Latinx Indigeneities, 73

Cuba, 129, 133, 134

Daigle, Michelle, 5, 10, 11, 20–21

Dear Science and Other Stories (McKittrick), 164

decolonial geographies, 20–21, 162, 168–169, 169–174

“Decolonization, Resistance and Resurgence” (AAG session), 168–169

De Genova, Nicolas, 30

dehumanization. See humanity

de-Indianization, 71, 82, 84, 86, 89–90. See also mestizaje

Dennis, Philip Adams, 77

Du Bois, W. E. B., 121

Duggan, Lisa, 103

Educare, 28, 36–37

Elena (Educare participant), 38

El Rancho, Mexico, 77, 84–85, 87–89, 90n7

Elwood, Sarah, 4, 13, 18, 142

Relational Poverty Politics (with Lawson), 64

epistemological ignorance, white, 58–59, 61, 63

epistemologies: of accountable relationality, 63–65

of poverty studies, liberal, 50–51, 58– 63

relational, 2–3, 4–5, 17–18, 163–164, 168, 171. See also Indigenous knowledge and practices; knowledge making; ontologies

Escuelita, La, 128–130

Esparza, René, 100

Estes, Nick, 179

Fabris, Michael, 165

Fanon, Frantz, 123

Farrales, May, 165, 172, 175

feminist scholarship: BIPOC, 164, 178

Black, 149, 162, 164, 165, 174

Chicana, 73–74, 164, 168, 179

Indigenous, 162, 164, 173, 174

Latinx, 123, 162, 174

Marxian, 51, 60

slow, 13

women of color, 122

Ferguson, Roderick A., 103

Fisher, Bernice, 119

Foucault, Michel, 44n1

Freedom Farmers (White), 146

Frontline (TV program), 95, 99–101

Fruitvale (Oakland, Calif.), 120, 126

future(s): Anzaldúa on, 117, 137

Black activism and, 125, 144–146, 150, 151, 154, 155, 156, 157

liberatory, 165, 166, 174, 177–180

Mexican migrant aspirations for, 33, 38, 40, 42

in racial capitalism, 73, 78

in racialized communities, politics of, 8–12, 12–16, 20–21

Gainesville, Ga., 142–143, 151–152, 154, 155, 158

Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), 101

gender. See LGBT+ communities; women

GenUrb: Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures conference, 164

geographies: Black, 19, 146, 153–154, 173–174, 179

Black LGBT+, 97–98, 107–112

of care, 121

decolonial, 20–21, 162, 168–169, 169– 174, 174–177

Indigenous, 179

Latinx, 179

of liberation, 164

nos/otras concept and, 123– 124

of oppression, 72, 119, 136

of power, in colonialism, 118, 120–121

of relational poverty studies, 60–63

of self-reliance, 145

of selves, 126

of struggle, 127. See also land(s); place making; place(s); space(s); spatial production

“Geographies of Land/Liberation” (AAG panel), 174–175, 177

Geography, Department of (UW), 166–168

geography, discipline of: BIPOC perspectives in, lack of, 166–169

colonial history and, 120–121

decolonization and, study of, 169– 170, 173, 174–177

queer of color critique and, 97. See also land(s); place making; place(s); space(s); spatial production

Georgia. See Atlanta, Ga.; Gainesville, Ga.

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 90n4, 122, 174

Gilroy, Paul, 10

Glissant, Édouard, 162, 164, 180

GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis), 101

Goeman, Mishuana, 178

González Mendoza, Yolanda: cited, 6, 18–19, 165

migration story of, 74, 75, 78, 81–82, 87–88

Greensboro sit-ins, 159n1

Greenwood. See Tulsa, Okla.

Gregory, Steven, 121

Grzywacz, Joseph G., 45n2

güaipear (screaming), 84–85

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 165

Gusa, Diane, 57

Gustafson, Kaaryn, 56–57

Gutiérrez Garza, Ana P., 4, 13, 17

Habell-Pallán, Michelle, 168

Hancock, Ange-Marie, 54

Harney, Stefano, 180n2

Harris, Buck, 100, 102, 103

Harris-Lacewell, Melissa, 153

Head Start programs, 36–37

Healthy Love party, 108–109

Herrera, Juan, 5, 10, 19–20

heteronormativity, 103, 104, 171

homonormativity, 111, 112

heteropatriarchy, 7, 9, 10, 63

Heynen, Nik, 148

Hill, Ray, 100

Hispanic communities. See Latinx communities; Mexican migrants

homonormativity, 6, 103–104, 111, 112

heteronormativity, 171

Houston, Tex., 100

humanity: Black, in antiracist analysis, 119

geographic definitions of, 120–121

relationality and, 88, 89

respect for, in Black activism, 20, 144, 146–147, 156–157

settler-colonial definition of, 81

shared, in nepantla strategies, 5, 136. See also personhood

IBP (now Tyson Fresh Meats), 81–82

illegibilities, politics of, 13, 16, 19, 20–21

Indianapolis, Ind., 99

Indigenous knowledge and practices: in academia, 166–167, 170, 173

in education, 130–131

nepantla concept and, 124

(re)building of, 171

relational, 64, 65, 165

settler-colonial theory and, 174

of welcome, 177. See also epistemologies; knowledge making

Indigenous peoples: collective liberation work in, 170–171

impoverishment of, 54

Mexican, devaluation of, 78–79, 80–81

politics of, 9, 10, 11

racial capitalism and, 6–7, 71–74

relational communality of, 86–90

relations with other BIPOC communities, 172–173

settler colonialism and, 50

space(s) of, 178–179

welfare use by, image of, 34. See also mestizaje; and specific individuals, groups, and places

Jennifer (Educare participant), 33

Johnson, Dr. (volunteer), 150

Johnson, Maggie, 149

Johnson, Rose, 155

Jordan, Jodi, 57

Jubb, Connie, 129–130, 134, 137

Kaiser Family Foundation, 28, 36–37

Keisha (Educare participant), 31

Kelley, Robin D. G., 10

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 141, 147, 154

King, Tiffany Lethabo, 180

The Black Shoals, 165, 178

knowledge making: through accountable relationality, 21, 51–52, 63–65, 169–174

Black queer sexuality and, 105

in HIV/AIDS epidemic, history of, 96, 97

by racialized dispossessed communities, 2–3, 5

relational, 8, 13–14, 16–17, 85–86

Western/colonial, 57, 169–170

whiteness of, in poverty studies, 58–63. See also epistemologies; Indigenous knowledge and practices; ontologies

Kohl, Ellen, 20

Kurtz, Hilda E., 149

Lamble, Sarah, 102–103

land(s): in Black activism, 151

communal, in Mexico, 87–88, 89

Indigenous, 9, 10, 11, 29, 64, 79, 166–167, 170–171, 172, 177, 178

labor and, in settler-colonial theory, 178

monetization of, 7

in Oklahoma history, 29

as property, in settler colonialism, 50

in settler colonialism, 73, 80, 84. See also place(s); space(s)

Latin Americans. See Latinx communities; Mexican migrants

Latinx communities: in Bay Area, 126–128, 129–130

Black collaboration with, 154

border and, 168

identity of, 163, 179

labor exploitation of, 82–83

in Pasco, Wash., 79

relations with other racialized communities, 11, 171–172. See also Mexican migrants; and specific individuals, groups, and places

Latinx geographies, 179

Lawson, Victoria, 4, 13, 18

Relational Poverty Politics (with Elwood), 64

lethal liberalism(s): abolition of, 19

definition of, 4

futures beyond, 16

institutionalizations of, 2, 120

poverty

Levenson, David, 117–118, 125–126, 134–135, 136, 137

Lewis, Jovan Scott, 4, 13, 17

LGBT+ communities:

—Black: in Atlanta, activism of, 107–113

HIV/AIDS epidemic and, politics of, 6, 95– 99

liberal LGBT+ community formations and, 102–107

spatial production by, 112–113. See also specific individuals and groups

—white: Black sexuality and liberal formations of, 102–106

HIV/AIDS epidemic and, politics of, 6, 95–99

sexual citizenship and, 112–113. See also specific individuals and groups

LGBT+ terminology, discussion of, 113n1

liberalism(s), lethal. See lethal liberalism(s)

liberal poverty studies. See poverty studies, liberal

Lipsitz, George, 180n3

“Living Just Enough for the City, Volume VI, Black Methodology” (McKittrick), 164

Lockhart, P. R., 48

Lola (migrant), 84–85, 88

Lopez, Diego, 101

Los Angeles Times, 100–101

Luna, Jaime Martínez, 86

Malcolm X, 127

Mallory, Aaron, 6, 19

Manchild in the Promised Land (C. Brown), 127

Martineau, Jarrett, 10, 180n2

Marxism, 9, 131, 133

Maynard, Robyn, 179

McCutcheon, Priscilla, 20, 144

McKittrick, Katherine: on Black methodology, 164

on Black sense of place, 95

on Black suffering, focus on, 119

on cooperative human efforts, 136

Dear Science and Other Stories, 164

on geography and human difference, 120–121

influence of, 138n2, 173, 174

on knowing differentially, 177

“Living Just Enough for the City, Volume VI, Black Methodology,” 164

Melamed, Jodi, 50

Merida Initiative, 78

Merritt College, 127

mestizaje, 6, 41, 45n6

as colonial project, 71, 73, 80–81, 90n1

in Mexican national ontology, 6

in Mexico versus United States, 79

as white-supremacist project, 179. See also de-Indianization; Indigenous peoples

Mexican migrants: activism of, 126–128, 129–130, 131–134, 135–136

Black communities and, 17–18

family separation among, 83– 86

labor exploitation of, 71–74, 76–77, 77– 78, 81–83

in Oklahoma, history of, 29– 30

relational communality of, 86–90

social services, experiences with, 40–41, 43

structural inequality and, cycle of, 31– 33

values of, 33–35, 37–38. See also Latinx communities; and specific individuals, groups, and places

Mexico: mestizaje project in, 6, 80–81

migrant visits to, 88–89, 90n7

neoliberal policies in, 74–78

racial order in, 41–42, 45n6

structural inequality in, 32

Mignolo, Walter, 79

Milligan, Christine, 121

Million, Dian, 62

Moten, Fred, 180n2

movements, social. See activists and activism

Moynihan, Daniel, 55

Muños, Carlos, Jr., 117, 138n1

Muñoz, José Esteban, 180n1

Mushkegowuk people, 170–171, 178–179

Nagar, Richa, 14

Naples, Nancy A., 144

National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF), 125–126

National Science Foundation, 61–62

Native peoples. See Indigenous peoples

“Negro Family, The” (report), 55

Nelson, Alondra, 122

nepantla abilities: care and, 136–138

concept of, 5, 118, 168, 179

in education, 128

in social movements, 119

social movements and, 126

solidarity fostered by, 126, 127, 132, 135– 136. See also nos/otras identity

Nero, Charles I., 102

Newton, Huey P., 134

Newtown. See Gainesville, Ga.

NFC (Newtown Florist Club), 141–143

quiet activism of, 149–151, 154, 155–156, 156–157

Nita (migrant), 83, 84

nos/otras identity: activist care and, 136–138

in activist collaborations, 132

Black and Brown solidarity as, 127–128

concept of, 118, 119, 123–124

in education, 130, 131

international travel and, 134

solidarity fostered by, 135–136

white solidarity as, 124–126. See also nepantla abilities

Oakland, Calif., 120, 126

Obregón, Álvaro, 80

Ohlone territories, 167

Oji-Cree people, 170

Oklahoma, 29–30. See also Tulsa, Okla.

Ontario, 167

ontologies: Black radical, 10

of borders, 7

of difference, 17

Indigenous, 7

liberal, 4

liberal versus relational, 2–3

of poverty studies, 3, 6, 18

in relational analysis, 14

of white supremacy, 12, 17. See also epistemologies; knowledge making

Operation Talon, 57

Pachirat, Timothy, 82

Parent as Teacher (PAT) program, 37, 39, 45n3

Paschal’s Restaurant, 148

Pasco, Wash., 79

Patton, Lori, 57

peoplehood, Indigenous, 10. See also personhood

people of color: in geographic power relation, 120–121

use of term, 163

Pérez, Emma, 168

Perkins, Tracy E., 149

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), 54, 55, 56

personhood: citizenship and, 19

exclusions from, poverty studies as reproducer of, 13– 14

forging forms of, in Black activism, 20

propertied, 7, 9–10, 19, 21, 52–53, 55, 59

settler-colonial, racialization and, 51

under white supremacy, denial of, 20. See also citizenship; humanity

Pesquera, Beatriz, 126–127, 133–134, 135, 137

Pittman, LaShawnDa, 55

place making: in Black activism, 148, 153–154, 155–156, 158

and difference, overcoming of, 126–128

racialized, in HOPE VI developments, 62. See also space(s); spatial production

place(s): in activism, 20–21, 118, 119, 122, 149

in Black LGBT+ experience, 97–98, 101, 104– 106, 107–113

Black sense of, 95

poverty relation and, 7

relationality and, 162, 164. See also space(s); spatial production; and specific places

Poppendieck, Janet, 144

possession/possessiveness: in liberal governance, 3

white, 54, 58–63, 64–65, 165, 177, 180n3

poverty studies, liberal: disorganizing, 4–6, 21, 63–65

epistemologies of, 17–18, 58– 63

racial capitalism reproduced by, 2– 4

relational analysis of, 17

relationality versus hegemonic knowledge in, 13–14

use of term, 49

white supremacy advanced by, 48–50, 50–52, 52–57. See also epistemologies; knowledge making; ontologies

PRWORA (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act), 54, 55, 56

queer politics and theory, 63, 97–98, 104, 107– 112, 113n1. See also LGBT+ communities

race and racism. See anti-Blackness; racial capitalism; white supremacy

racial capitalism: activist challenges to, 13, 16–17, 121

BIPOC liberation in context of, 171

critiques of, 8–12, 131

homonormativity and, 103

identity in, 65

ideology of, 52–53

inequalities caused by, 6–8, 51

labor in history of, 90n4

Mexican migrant experience and, 71–74, 86–90

neocolonialism as reproducer of, 76–77

poverty studies as reproducer of, 2–4, 48– 50. See also settler colonialism

racialized communities: divisions within, 41

political traditions of, learning from, 8–12

poverty studies and, 4

relations between different, 13–14, 17–18, 20–21

resistance and thriving of, 72, 73–74

social services and, interactions with, 26–28. See also BIPOC communities; Brown people; and specific communities

Ramírez, Margaret Marietta, 5, 10, 11, 20–21

Reese, Ashanté M., 145

Black Food Geographies, 153

relationality: accountable (see accountable relationity); in activism, 13, 16–17, 127– 128, 131, 132

in BIPOC communities, 170–171, 171–172

collective writing subject and, 13, 14–16

in decolonial geographies, 20

generative disruption through, 65

geographical, in poverty studies, 60

as resistance, 72–74, 86–90

in scholarship, 5, 8, 21, 63, 65, 162–166, 180

unthinkability and denial of, 12. See also constellation(s); nepantla abilities; nos/otras identity

Relational Poverty (podcast), 166

relational poverty, research on, 18, 58–63, 63–65. See also poverty studies, liberal

Relational Poverty Network, 60, 61

Relational Poverty Politics (Lawson and Elwood), 64

Revolutionary Health (YouTube series), 111

Risling Baldy, Cutcha, 164

Robinson, Cedric, 10, 71

Robnett, Belinda, 144

Rodriguez, Raymond, 29

Rosa (Educare participant), 34

Rosalia (Educare participant), 33

Roy, Ananya, 7, 30

Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina, 79

Sandoval, Chela, 168

San Francisco Bay Area, Calif., 120, 125–126, 172

Sangtin Writers, 14

Sara (Educare participant), 40, 41

scholars and scholarship. See academia

Schultz, Betsy, 130

Schusterman Family Philanthropies, 36

Scow, Mick, 10

screaming (güaipear), 84–85

Sense of Brown (Muñoz), 180n1

settler colonialism: in academia, 15

constellations and flights out of, 180n2

critiques of, 9–12

Indigenous communities in, 50

in Mexican migrant experience, 72–73, 81, 90n1

poverty relation rooted in, 6–8

poverty studies as reproducer of, 13

racial capitalism and, 50, 51, 53

radical relationalities as refusal of, 16–17. See also racial capitalism

settler-colonial theory, 169, 174, 178

settlers, BIPOC, 172, 177

sexuality. See LGBT+ communities

SFQ (Southern Fried Queer), 109–110, 112–113

Shantel (Educare participant), 30–31, 38–39

Simpson, Audra, 10

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 11, 165, 172–173, 179, 180n2

As We Have Always Done, 172

Sister Love Inc., 108–109, 112

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, 88

social categories. See ontologies

social movements. See activists and activism

Social Security Act (1935), 61

Southern Fried Queer (SFQ), 109–110, 112–113

space(s): accountable relationality as generative, 64–65

colonial division of, 120–121

constellations and power across, 164

of flight, 163, 180n2

Indigenous, 178– 179

liberatory, 165

in nepantla concept, 118

othering and distancing across, 80

public versus private, 105–106, 144–145, 153, 175–178

women of color feminists on, 122. See also place making; place(s); spatial production; and specific spaces

—academic: BIPOC liberation discussions in, 174–178

collective writing subject and, 13

relationship building in, 166, 167–169, 170, 172

transforming, 64

whiteness of, 57

Sparks, Holloway, 54–55

spatialized practices, 120, 146–147

spatial production: Black LGBT+, 19, 104–106, 107–112, 112–113

in Black southern activism, 146–147, 148, 152, 153–154, 155, 158

in nepantla activism, 124, 126, 128, 135, 136

by oppressed communities, 74

racial capitalist, 9. See also place making; place(s); space(s)

storytelling: in activism, 111, 158

BIPOC relationality and, 5, 162–163, 166, 178, 179– 180

in scholarship, 74

Street Academy, 130–131

Sullivan, Andrew, 96

Susana (Educare participant), 40

territories. See land(s)

thinkable politics. See unthinkable politics

Third World, 164

Time, 100

“tiny territories” of mutual aid, 164

Treaty 9 territory, 167

Tricontinental Newsletter, 133–134

Tronto, Joan, 119–120

Trotter, Joe, 121–122

Tuck, Eve, 168, 171

Tulsa, Okla., 26, 29–30, 35, 36–38, 44

Two-Spirit people, 171, 174

Tyson Fresh Meats (formerly IBP), 81–82

United Farm Workers (UFW), 129–130, 132, 135

United States: difference in, negotation of, 123, 126

immigration laws of, 30

imperialism, in Mexico, 74–78

liberalism(s) in, 6, 35, 41, 98

Mexican migrants oppressed in, 72–73, 75, 79–80, 81, 82–83

racial capitalism in, 1–2, 18, 48–50, 51, 52–53, 54–57. See also specific places

universities. See academia

University of Washington, 166–168

unthinkable politics, 12–16, 60, 62, 64, 141–142

Valencia, Yolanda, 90n6, 175

Vancouver, B.C., 172

Vasconcelos, José, 80

Vasudevan, Pavithra, 165

veiled politics, 13, 16

Walcott, Rinaldo, 58, 104–105

Washington (state), 166–167

Washington, University of, 166–168

West, Cornel, 1

Wheat Street Baptist Church, 141–142, 143–144

quiet activism of, 150–151, 153–154, 155–156

Whetung, Madeline, 165

White, Monica M., 146

white epistemological ignorance, 58–59, 61

white LGBT+ communities. See LGBT+ communities: white

whiteness: in academia, 57, 174

in homonormativity, 103

material advantages conferred by, 4

in Mexican culture, 41–42, 45n6, 81

norm of, 28, 30, 36, 37, 38, 120– 121

nos/otras identity and, 123

in popular culture, U.S., 48

in poverty studies, 18, 48– 52, 58–63, 64

in racial capitalism, ideology of, 52–54

white supremacy: BIPOC experience of, shared, 163

Black community building as counter to, 148, 152

epistemologies of, 4– 5

geographic power relations and, 120–121

liberatory politics and, ambivalent relationship to, 20

in Mexican migrant experience, 72, 73, 81

ontologies of, 12, 17

poverty relation and, 7–8

poverty studies and, 8, 17, 48–52, 50–52, 52–57, 58–63, 65

racial capitalism and, 1–2, 4, 8

racial formations in, 6

radical relationalities as refusal of, 13

in scholarship, 63–65

sexual regulation and, 101

use of term, 52. See also anti-Blackness

Wiles, Janine, 121

Wilson, Shawn, 85, 88

women: in Educare program, 39–44

Indigenous, 171

Mexican migrant, 82, 84– 85

racialized subjectivities of, 28

social justice organizations founded by, 142–143. See also feminist scholarship; and specific individuals and groups

—Black: activist, coalitions with, 132

impoverished, representations of, 4, 54–55, 56, 104

quiet activism of, 144–145, 148– 149, 159n1. See also specific individuals and groups

—of color: impoverished, representations of, 54–55

inequalities and, effects of, 31, 32–33

labour exploitation of, 82

roles of, in social movements, 144

stories of, 74. See also specific individuals and groups

Woods, Clyde, 121, 173

Wright, Willie J., 165, 174–175

Wynter, Sylvia, 75–76, 120, 122, 138n2

X, Malcolm, 127

Yang, K. Wayne, 168, 171

Yazzie, Melanie, 164, 175

Ybarra, Megan, 57

Zarrow Foundation, 36

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