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《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):441-451
This paper surveys research about African Americans in six geography journals between 1911 and 1995. 176 journal articles about African Americans were identified. A chronological analysis of a subset of these articles shows that it was not until the 1960s that African Americans were studied to any appreciable degree by geographers. Since that time, geographers have continued this research, but unevenly; annual output varies widely. Popular topics have included considerations of spatial distributions, social problems, political participation, the development of black residence areas, and historical and cultural studies of African Americans. Recent research in this area has problematized the concept of “race” and investigated the mutual constitution of racial identity and place. 相似文献
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《The Professional geographer》2013,65(3):306-317
This study investigates whether women's short commutes should be interpreted as constrained or convenient work trips by examining how race, gender, travel mode, occupation, residential location, workplace location, and Inc.ome affect commuting time. The analysis is restricted to a sample of European American and African American male and female workers residing in Buffalo, New York, and the surrounding county using data drawn from the Public Use Microdata Samples of the 1990 U.S. census. Given the pervasive gender wage gap, women unsurprisingly have more compromised (short commutes to low-Inc.ome jobs) work trips than do men. Multivariate analysis reveals that among those who reverse commute to suburban locations, African American women have the longest work trips. 相似文献
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《The Journal of geography》2012,111(6):265-277
Abstract This article addresses the knowledge of geography and geography-related careers of sixth and ninth grade students in six Florida schools. For geography knowledge no sex differences were noted for the total sample, ninth grade African American males outperformed African American females, achievement differed by school, and students knew most about skills and least about physical geography Students' career knowledge increased with grade level; males were more knowledgeable than females; African American females were the least knowledgeable; sex-related differences became more pronounced in ninth grade; and the most frequently cited careers were cartographer, explorer, meteorologist, and news person. 相似文献
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《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):420-431
Spatial barriers to employment limit women's job opportunities, but their effects differ among racial/ethnic minority groups. This study evaluates the degree of spatial mismatch for minority women and men by comparing the commuting times of African American, Latino, and white workers in the New York metropolitan region. Using Public Use Microdata for 1980 and 1990, we perform a partial decomposition analysis to assess the role of spatial mismatch in lengthening commuting times for minority workers. The results show that African American men and women living in the center of the region have poorer spatial access to employment than their white counterparts. In the suburbs, African American women and Latinas suffer no spatial mismatch; rather, their longer commuting times reflect greater reliance on mass transit. Comparison with 1980 findings reveals little change in spatial mismatch over time despite significant economic and social restructuring in the 1980s. Spatial barriers still limit employment prospects for the majority of minority women living at the core of the region. 相似文献
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《The Journal of geography》2012,111(8):14-28
Abstract Despite the continued importance of regional courses in college curricula and the far-reaching innovations in systematic geography, the formats and organizational structure of regional geography has remained obdurately stable. The persistent demand for a regional course on Africa, together with the disturbing anachronistic curricular materials and our difficulty in finding adequate materials for our class, stimulated us to develop a different approach to teaching African geography. The approach is thematic and is intended to modernize African regional geography, bring it into phase with the rest of the discipline, and emphasize the essential unity of the spatial viewpoint. Five themes are used as the framework for providing an integrating overview of the continent and its problems. 相似文献
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《The Journal of geography》2012,111(1):52-53
Abstract Djerba, a small island off the southeast Tunisian coast, is in many ways a unique fragment of North African cultural geography. In terms of linguistic character, religious qualities, and ethnic makeup Djerba constitutes a veritable laboratory for the study of the effects of spatial isolation. Now, however, Djerba's long-term isolation is coming to an end as tourism is gaining momentum and modernization alters the cultural landscape. 相似文献
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《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):437-448
Ten years after the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) was first reported in Ghana, it continues to spread throughout the country following patterns that are rare in other African countries. HIV is seen in twice as many females as males, more frequently in rural than urban regions, and regions with high rates of polygamy have significantly lower rates. The evidence presented in this paper shows that HIV diffusion patterns probably reflect the spatial distribution and social networks of vulnerable social groups. While information-based campaigns are still necessary in the fight against HIV/AIDS, they fail to enable or empower vulnerable people to protect themselves against infection. 相似文献
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《The Journal of geography》2012,111(2):50-57
Abstract Predictions of future environmental changes are fraught with difficulties and there are great differences of view as to what is likely to happen in coming years. However, certain environmental changes of the 1980s may continue to accelerate in the 1990s: stratospheric ozone depletion, atmospheric warming, forest die–back, rainforest depletion, African drought and species loss. 相似文献
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《Norsk geografisk tidsskrift. Norwegian journal of geography》2012,66(1):34-37
South African geography, like other subjects, has to undergo the arduous process of curriculum change in order to meet the demands of the new education system and to contribute to a broader agenda of national reconstruction. Changes within geography can shed light on the impact and implications of the new national curriculum on teaching subjects. The paper suggests that the introduction of environmental education into Curriculum 2005 offers geography educators the opportunity and the challenge to advance geographic knowledge. 相似文献
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《The Professional geographer》2013,65(3):567-590
Books reviewed in this article: Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Aerial photography and image interpretation for Resource Management. DAVIDP. PAINE. Analytical Models and Techniques Spatial Processes Models and ApplicationsA. D. CLIFFAND J. K. ORD Quantitative and Statistical Approaches to Geography: A Practical ManualJOHNA. MATTHEWS. Cartography and Maps Map Data Processing. HERBERTFREEMANAND GOFFREDOG. PIERONI, eds. Computer-assisted Cartography: Principles and Prospects, 1982. MARKS. MONMONIER. Cultural Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distributions. STEPHENC. JETTAND VIRGINIAE . SPENCER. Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography. EDWARDRELPH. Economic The Structure and Control of a State Economy. W. L. L'ESPERANCE. Economic Geography. JAMES O. WHEELER AND PETER O. MULLER. The Myth of the Family Farm: Agribusiness Dominance of U.S. Agriculture. INGOLF VOCELER. Libya: The Experience of Oil. J. A. ALLEN. Geography of Public Finance, Welfare Under Fiscal Federalism and local Government Finance. ROBERT BENNETT. Environmental Management, Resources, and Systems Mountains and Man. LARRY W. PRICE. Environmental Geology. DONALD R. COATES. An Introduction to Environmental Systems. G. H. DURY. The Environment: Chinese and American Views. Edited by LAURENCE J. C. MAAND ALLEN G. NOBLE. Land Use in America. RICHARD H. JACKSON. Medical Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Medical Geography. MELINDA S. MEADE (ed.). Philosophy and Geographic Thought Birds in Egg/Eggs in Bird. GUNNAR OLSSON. PhysicaI Climatology: Selected Applications. J. E. OLIVER. Geomorphological Techniques. ANDREW GOUDIE (ed.). Political Politics, Geography and Behaviour. RICHARD MUIR AND RONAN PADDISON. The State of the World Atlas. MICHAEL KIDRON AND RONALD SECAL. Population The Population of the South. DUDLEY L. POSTON, JR. AND ROBERT H. WELLER, eds. Regional Latin America: Economic Development and Regional Differentiation. ARTHUR MORRIS. Developing the Amazon. EMILIO F. MORAN. Western Europe: A Systematic Human Geography. BRIAN W. ILBERY. Settlement Systems in Sparsely Settled Regions: The United States and Australia. RICHARD E. LONSDALEAND JOHN H. HOLMES, eds. African Perspectives: The Economic Geography of Nine African States. HARMDEBUJAND ESMOND MARTIN, eds. Rural Nonmetropolitan America in Transition. AMOS H. HAWLEYAND SARA MILLS MAZIE, eds. Social Crime and Environment. R. NORMAN DAVIDSON. The Ghetto: Readings with Interpretations. JOE T. DARDEN, ed. Urban Urban Problems and Planning in the Developed World. MICHAEL PACIONE (ed.) Problems and Planning in Third World Cities. Edited by MICHAEL PACIONE. The City in West Europe. D. BURTENSHAW, M. BATEMAN, AND C. J. ASHWORTH. 相似文献
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《The Journal of geography》2012,111(4-5):219-225
Abstract This article presents a lesson plan used to teach about African urbanization using Kenyan novels. Specifically, three urban novels written by Meja Mwangi are used. Based on a qualitative survey of student preference and learning, this lesson plan uses these novels alongside more traditional academic texts to achieve effective student learning. Understanding that students prefer to read novels but learn best from textbooks, this mixture of texts generates emotional discussions that are substantiated with factual research. 相似文献
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《The Journal of geography》2012,111(7):402-413
Abstract While the study of Africa has become increasingly important in American schools, teachers are often perplexed by the problem of which materials and approaches to use in presenting a course on Africa. This article outlines a course in the regional geography of SubSaharan Africa which was developed by the writer for an introductory course at the college level, but which can easily be adapted for use in an advanced high school course. Emphasis is on African history and contemporary spatial patterns of urbanization and economic development. 相似文献
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《The Journal of geography》2012,111(4-5):177-191
Abstract The “ideal-typical” sequence model of transportation development has been widely referenced, but its application outside of its original African context has not been well tested. A graphical analysis is employed to evaluate the utility of the concept in explanation of the evolution of the transportation network in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain sections of Georgia and the Carolinas from the mid-eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century. The historical geography of transport expansion in this area appears to support the general parameters of the ideal-typical sequence and provides useful material for instruction related to the national standards for geographic education. 相似文献
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Abstract A long history of overt discrimination left an enduring racialized imprint upon the geography of the East Bay. While the benefits of a metropolitan decentralization of jobs, housing, and public investment fell to Whites, discrimination in employment and housing trapped African Americans in urban neighborhoods burdened by infrastructure encroachment and divestment. By circa 1970, overt discrimination succumbed to new, racially neutral, legal, and administrative forms, including regional planning processes. Using an environmental racism framework, we show that these new forms reproduced the existing racialized geography by means of new inequalities in representation and transportation service provision. These new regional transportation policies, like those challenged by a 2005 civil rights lawsuit, favored the mobility needs of more affluent suburbanites over those of African American East Bay bus riders. These policies, layered onto an existing racialized geography, reinforced existing inequalities by failing to address racial barriers to opportunity in the built environment. [Key words: transportation, race, segregation, Oakland] 相似文献
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《The Journal of geography》2012,111(5):194-209
Abstract This article offers a pedagogical module that explores the geography of blues culture across the Mississippi Delta. By focusing on blues culture, rather than simply blues music itself, this project provides a forum for understanding the broader geographical conditions from which this musical form emerged. This module utilizes place-based methodologies and musical expressions as lenses to understand the influences that migration and cultural diffusion have had on the evolution of Delta blues. The impacts these processes had on diffusing African cultural legacies and setting the stage for the evolution of the civil rights movement are considered. 相似文献
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《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):464-476
Abstract The fluidity of southern African families is related to a long history of internal and external migration. Currently, HIV/AIDS is having a dramatic impact on extended family structures, with the migration of individual members employed as a coping strategy. Children's migration is one aspect of this that is often distinct from that undertaken by other household members. This article is based on qualitative research conducted in Lesotho and Malawi with young migrants and the households that receive them. It examines the processes of fragmentation and re-formation of households through the movements of children that are taking place in response to HIV/AIDS, and explores the impacts these processes have on young migrants and the households they join. 相似文献
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Paper-Based GIS: A Practical Answer to the Implementation of GIS Education into Resource-Poor Schools in South Africa 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
《The Journal of geography》2012,111(4):148-157
Abstract Geographical information systems (GIS) were phased into the geography curriculum of South African schools from 2006–2008 as part of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) for grades 10–12. Since its introduction, GIS education in schools across the country has been met with a number of challenges including the cost of purchasing the hardware and software required to elucidate the basic concepts of GIS to learners. This article examines the introduction of GIS education in schools in South Africa. The development and distribution of a paper-based GIS educational package for resource-poor schools in the country is also highlighted. Preliminary educator and learner evaluations of the paper-based GIS package are discussed and the broader learning opportunities and benefits associated with flexible teaching mechanisms are examined. 相似文献
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《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):458-466
This research tests the spatial mismatch hypothesis by comparing the employment probabilities of central city versus suburban African American males in nine metropolitan areas. Treatment effects models are used to control for the effects of both individual characteristics and residential self-selection on the probability of employment. A positive effect of suburban residential location on employment is found for the residents of Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, while no effect is found for the residents of Cleveland, Houston. Jackson, Memphis, and Newark. The general conclusion to be drawn is that the spatial mismatch effect is contingent on the particular characteristics of each metropolitan area. Preliminary analysis shows that metropolitan areas with a spatial mismatch effect are large in terms of total population and total land area, and have less efficient transportation systems. 相似文献
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《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):487-488
Book Reviewed in this article: Geographical Aspects of Health and Disease in India. Rais Akhtarand A.T.A. Learmonth, eds. Antarctic Treaty System: An Assessment. Proceedings of a Workshop at Beardmore South Field Camp, Antarctica. American Electoral Mosaics. J. Clark Archerand Fred M. Shelley. Kompas op Suidwes-Afrika/Namibie. W.S. Barnard, ed. Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City. Yehoshua Ben-Arieh. The World as a Total System. Kenneth E. Boulding. A Social History of Housing 1815–1985, Second Ed. John Burnett. Human Migration. W.A.V. Clark. Regional Population Projection Models. Andrei Rogers. The State of Population Theory: Forward from Malthus. David Colemanand Roger Schofield, eds. Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology and the American Future. Joseph C. Corn, ed. Swidden Agriculture in Indonesia: The Subsistence Strategies of the Kalimantan Kantú. Michael R. Dove. Glacial Geologic Processes. David Drewry. Physics of Desertification. Farouk El-Bazand M.H.A. Hassan, eds. Housing the Homeless. Jon Ericksonand Charles Wilhelm, eds. Settlement Patterns in Missouri: A Study of Population Origins, with a Wall Map. Russel L. Gerlach. Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands. Yehuda Gradus, ed. Nuclear Winter. The Evidence and Risks. Owen Greene, Ian Percivaland Irene Ridge. The Take-off of Suburbia and the Crisis of the Central City. Günter Heinritzand Elisabeth Lichtenberger, eds. Regional Input-Output Analysis. Geoffrey J. D. Hewings. Spatial Transportation Modeling. Christian Werner. The Atlas of Georgia. Thomas W. Hodlerand Howard A. Schretter, eds. Latin America. 5th ed. Preston E. Jamesand C.W. Minkel. Applied Remote Sensing. C.P. Lo. Localities, Class, and Gender. The Lancaster Regionalism Group. Urban Social Movements: The City after Castells. Stuart Lowe. Politics and Method. Doreen Masseyand Richard Meegan, eds. Land Use. A. S. Mather. The Kingdom of Coal. Donald L. Millerand Richard E. Sharpless. The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain, A Documentary History, Vol. 1: 1570–1700. Thomas H. Naylorand Charles W. Polzer, S.J., comps. andeds. Nuclear Power: Siting and Safety. Stan Openshaw. The Central African Republic: The Continent's Hidden Heart. Thomas O'Toole. Environmental and Dynamic Geomorphology. Márton Pécsi, ed. Remote Sensing Principles and Interpretation. Floyd F. Sabins, Jr. Acid Rain and Friendly Neighbors: The Policy Dispute between Canada and the United States. Jurgen Schmandtand Hilliard Roderick, eds. Earth's Changing Surface: An Introduction to Geomorphology. M.J. Selby. International Migration: The Female Experience. Rita J. Simonand Caroline B. Brettell, eds. On Geography and Its History. D.R. Stoddart. Transportation Networks: A Quantitative Approach. D. Teodorovic. Processes in Physical Geography. R.D. Thompson, A.M. Mannion, C.W. Mitchell, M. Parry, J.R.G. Townshend. Imaging Radar for Resources Surveys. J.W. Trevett. Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets. Yi-Fu Tuan. Capturing the Horizon. The Historical Geography of Transportation since the Transportation Revolution of the Sixteenth Century. James E. Vance, Jr. Nations at Risk: The Impact of the Computer Revolution. Edward Yourdon. 相似文献
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《The Journal of geography》2012,111(4-5):139-141
Abstract The American South is a region of endless paradoxes. While today the South's economic expansion is attracting in-migrants by the tens of thousands, many of its residents continue to live in grinding poverty. Though its history includes periods of substantial racial injustice and violence, today more African Americans are moving to the South than any other region of the United States. The region where “cotton was king” now includes many dynamic, prosperous, and rapidly expanding metropolitan areas (e.g., Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas). But in the shadows of these cities reside rural populations who have experienced only limited improvement in the size of their paychecks, the quality of the education provided to their children, and the substance of their interaction with the rest of the nation and world. 相似文献