Cultural Geography

challenge to the familiar colonial role of ‘racial

studies’ (as supplier of anthropological informa-

tion on colonial subjects) as well as to its more

contemporary incarnation (as the social analysis

of the predicament of racialized minorities in the

west). This also implies that the tradition of

emphasizing the racialization of localities as the

principal research focus of ‘racial geography’

needs to be widened to enable a fuller apprecia-

tion of the intersections of race and geography.

Geographers cannot avoid issues of racial and

ethnic division: they are part and parcel of the

discipline’s history and its most basic vocabular-

ies. However, perhaps because of this, geographers

are well placed to provide a more insightful and

considered judgement than social critics for

whom ideas like ‘European’, ‘western’, ‘African’

and so on are less clearly visible as contingent

and mutable creations.

NOTE

1 But see Lambert’s (2001) recent geography of ‘racial

reinscription’ (p. 335) in colonial Barbados.

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