"Boy, what do we need a car for?" Nana replies. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield."Nana, how come we don't have a car?" CJ asks. Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America. “I Am Not a Black Body - #SpringValleyHigh.” Indiewire. No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago. Specters at the Port of Entry: Understanding State Mobilities through an Ontology of Exclusion. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. “Illustrator Finds his Voice on Market Street.” San Francisco Chronicle. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Brown Gold: Milestones of African American Children’s Picture Books, 1845-2002. Mobile Encounters: Bus 5A as a Cross-cultural Meeting Place. Koefoed, Lasse, Christensen, Mathilde Dissing, and Simonsen, Kirsten. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 15(1), 15–29. Bad Elements: Katrina and the Scoured Landscape of Social Reproduction. ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’: Transportation Justice and the Struggle for Equal Access. Inwood, Joshua F.J., Alderman, Derek, and Williams, Jill. Journal of the American Planning Association, 68(2), 165–178. Community-Based Planning as a Source of Political Change: The Transit Equity Movement of Los Angeles’ Bus Riders Union. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(4), 526–545. The Essence of Innocence: Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children. ‘Busing It’ in the City: Black Youth, Performance, and Public Transit. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers.įleetwood, Nicole. ĭe la Peña, Matt, and Robinson, Christian. “2016 Newbery Acceptance by Matt de la Peña.” The Horn Book. “Last Stop on Market Street: A Visit with Matt de la Peña & Christian Robinson.” Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World. Municipal Transportation Agency Ridership Survey 2016.” SF MTA. Routledge: London.Ĭorey, Canapary, and Galanis Research. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. London: Routledge.Ĭollins, Patricia Hill. Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow. ‘Driven to Distraction?’ Children’s Experiences of Car Travel. My reading of Market Street simultaneously acknowledges de la Peña’s contributions and the limitations of his own insights.īarker, John. Market Street is, despite de la Peña’s statement, a book “about” diversity, about race, in that the characters’ movements cannot be divorced from the context(s) in which they exist as Black. To some extent, the engagement also exists independently of de la Peña’s perceptions of the book. Certainly, this productive engagement stems in large part from Christian Robinson’s illustrations, which visually center Blackness, Black negotiation, and Black joy. And yet Market Street, as I argue in this article, very much contends with the concerns of Black geographies and Black epistemologies as articulated by Black scholars. identity is rooted in a historical specificity linked to African diasporic survival, negotiation, and resistance, as George Yancy contends Latinx experiences have their own axis of struggle (p. Market Street is illustrated by a Black man, and its words are written by a non-Black (Latinx) man, a factor that deserves acknowledgment within broader conversations about the importance of #ownvoices writing. To move while Black, Market Street suggests, is to create new possibilities within the confines of limitations, the process of motion a continual and unsettled oscillation. Yet, importantly, other realities also impact the way characters move the carceral regulation of Black people within the United States inevitably shadows this book’s spatial optimism, and Nana’s loving surveillance and careful direction shape the outlines of CJ’s imagination. The geographies of their journey on a city bus privilege communication, alternative epistemologies, and the spatial transcendence of creativity over literalism. Language and illustrations both work to portray CJ and Nana’s environment as fundamentally flexible, often exceeding the confines of what appears to be possible. This article examines the racialized productions of space in Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson’s 2015 picturebook Last Stop on Market Street, arguing that depictions of characters’ movements show how Black mobility constitutes a form of resistance to state circumscription.
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