ABSTRACT
The whiteness of human geography is a problem for a subject which concerns itself with the diverse experiences of the world’s population. The whiteness of practitioners in the main centres of geographical research in Europe, North America and Australasia makes it difficult for ‘other voices’ to be heard in geographical conversations. This is manifest in the failure to acknowledge the contributions to an understanding of social space which black authors have made. Black world-views have come across to a white readership through the work of authors like James Baldwin and Franz Fanon, as well as social scientists like bell hooks and Paul Gilroy, but black fiction and social science writing have not informed much geographical writing.2
