Regional Geographies of the U.S. Southeast and Sub-Saharan Africa: The Potential for Comparative Insights

Abstract

This article outlines how the study of Sub-Saharan African regional geography has the potential to inform scholarship on the U.S. Southeast and vice versa. The author describes two approaches to comparative regional analysis and then provides an example of how each form of analysis may lead to interesting and productive intellectual crossfertilization. The first case is one of Africanist geographical scholarship informing southeastern U.S. studies that emphasizes actual historical linkages between the two regions. The second case is an example of how southeastern U.S. scholarship could potentially inform research in South Africa because of similar circumstances that the two regions hold in common. The article concludes by commenting on the two forms of comparative regional analysis.

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