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Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction h i Ld A e . KUrtz ANd d ee PAK r . Mi Shr A University of Georgia Volume 58, Issue 1 of Southeastern Geog- Starkville, Mississippi. While no racial dis- rapher opens with a Special Forum on The parity in sidewalk access was found, the Aftermath of the Hate Rally in Charlottes- quality of sidewalks in pre-dominantly ville. The cumbersome title for the forum Black neighborhoods were of poorer qual- hints, perhaps, at the ways in which that ity. Only 21 percent of the sidewalks were startling event flummoxed many of us. rated as “excellent” in Black neighbor- Trying to make “sense” of the mass public hoods compared to 75 percent in White eruption of race hatred calls for widen- neighborhoods. Sidewalks provide ac- ing conversations, engaging with diverse cess to other modes of transportation, but strands of thought and realms of expe- more importantly facilitate social cohe- rience. Various histories of geographic sion among neighbors. thought prove tremendously useful here. Holtkamp and Weaver’s paper (2018, The journal has a long history of publish- this issue) contributes to a growing body ing scholarship on contested landscapes, of empirical research on social capital and the ways in which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southeastern Geographer University of North Carolina Press

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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Copyright
Copyright © The Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers.
ISSN
1549-6929

Abstract

h i Ld A e . KUrtz ANd d ee PAK r . Mi Shr A University of Georgia Volume 58, Issue 1 of Southeastern Geog- Starkville, Mississippi. While no racial dis- rapher opens with a Special Forum on The parity in sidewalk access was found, the Aftermath of the Hate Rally in Charlottes- quality of sidewalks in pre-dominantly ville. The cumbersome title for the forum Black neighborhoods were of poorer qual- hints, perhaps, at the ways in which that ity. Only 21 percent of the sidewalks were startling event flummoxed many of us. rated as “excellent” in Black neighbor- Trying to make “sense” of the mass public hoods compared to 75 percent in White eruption of race hatred calls for widen- neighborhoods. Sidewalks provide ac- ing conversations, engaging with diverse cess to other modes of transportation, but strands of thought and realms of expe- more importantly facilitate social cohe- rience. Various histories of geographic sion among neighbors. thought prove tremendously useful here. Holtkamp and Weaver’s paper (2018, The journal has a long history of publish- this issue) contributes to a growing body ing scholarship on contested landscapes, of empirical research on social capital and the ways in which

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Southeastern GeographerUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Apr 11, 2018

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