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Black Cultural Geographies

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I will serve as the principal investigator conducting independent research on black cultural geographies of Chicago. As a self-design major in black cultural studies with a minor in geography, I examine the intersection between geography, black culture and music as an emerging geomusicologist. I am interested in the ways that space helps to form the cultural identities of black Chicagoans, the spatial diffusion of black culture across multiples scales and how placed based ideologies and black geographies are constructed, creating a new form of cultural capital. I use ethnomusicological and geographic methods to identify black geographies and how geography happens to black people and the ways in which they articulate their spatial narratives
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