This reflection traces my intellectual journey to geography. It focuses on the emergence of Global Black Geographies as a key methodological framework in my PhD research. The article explores its application to my work alongside my move from Jamaica to the United Kingdom. Global Black Geographies, which takes some of its cues from Black Geographies, is a field that powerfully interrogates the multiply complex definitions and geographies of Blackness in many parts of the world, including the Caribbean. I thus use the experience of my PhD research as a lens to demonstrate how Caribbean scholarship bridges Black Geographies scholarship and some of its more global concerns. In doing so, I reveal the central role Caribbean Studies have played in the development of Black Geographies, which ultimately connects my research interests to a context of several globally Black concerns.

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祖国和全球黑人，或加勒比关系的跨大西洋故事：变革的地理宣言


这个反思追溯了我的地理知识之旅。它重点关注全球黑人地理作为我的博士研究中关键方法论框架的出现。这篇文章探讨了它在我从牙买加搬到英国期间的工作中的应用。 《全球黑人地理》从《黑人地理》中汲取了一些线索，这个领域有力地质疑了世界许多地区（包括加勒比地区）黑人的多重复杂定义和地理。因此，我以我的博士研究经验为镜头，展示加勒比奖学金如何连接黑人地理奖学金及其一些更全球性的问题。在此过程中，我揭示了加勒比研究在黑人地理学发展中发挥的核心作用，这最终将我的研究兴趣与全球黑人关注的几个背景联系起来。