Abstract
Anti‐Black racism is at the root of systems of racialized inequality that organize space. However, its compound effects in urban, ecological, oceanic, and virtual spaces have been understudied in Geography. Here the emergence of anti‐Black racism is explained through colonialism, capitalism, and urban development, and several examples of global resistance to oppression are presented. Such protests have been integral to the development of academic study of anti‐Black racism. Attention is given to the way that anti‐Black racism persists in carceral and policed space, environmental injustice, the way the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response, and the creation of the subdiscipline of Black Geographies to address the gap in geographic literature on conditions of life, death, community, and dispossession in the global Black diaspora.