Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence and the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1450-1467

  Inwood, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

critical race studies; labor struggles; racism; reconciliation; truth commissions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RACISM; VIOLENCE;

GREENSBORO; NORTH CAROLINA; PERU; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867217666     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.603647     Document Type: Article

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