Kaily Heitz
Research
I am a Black Geographer. My research bridges Black feminist interventions and insights into the lived experience of Blackness, Urban, and Geographic research on the relationship between race, political-economic structures of inequality, and spatial justice. Specifically, my work examines the way that Black anti-displacement activist organizations and community-based development groups respond to inequitable city planning by utilizing a cultural framework that represents the experience of place-specific racialization.
Selected Publications
Heitz, K. (forthcoming) “Anti-Black Racism” Wiley International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology
Jones, N., Brown, K., Bautista Duran, E., Heitz, K., Kelekay, J., Rothschild Elyassi, G., Raymond G. (2022) “‘Other than the projects, you stay professional’: Colorblind cops and the enactment of spatial racism in everyday policing.” City & Community. https://doi.org/10.1177/15356841221123820
Heitz, K. (2021) Sunflower’s Oakland: The Black Geographic Image as a Site of Reclamation. Antipode. 54:1
Pierce, L. & Heitz, K. (2020) “Say Their Names” review of The Legacy Museum: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, Alabama. American Quarterly, 72:4.
Heitz, K. (2019) “Pictured pioneers: photographic representation of Japanese-American identity on the frontier,” Visual Studies, 34:1, 1-12
Hawthorne, C. & Heitz, K. (2018) “A Seat at the Table?: Reflections on Black Geographies and the Limits to Dialogue” Dialogues in Human Geography, 8:2.
