Scholarly Articles

Potter, A.E., M.R. Cook, L.E. Eaves, P. Carter, and C.F. Bright. 2023. Placing African American museums in the American tourism landscape. Tourism Geographies 26 (1): 97–119. DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2023.2259351

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Cook, M.R. 2020. Dark tourism and pilgrimage in the museum? Considering the case of Emmett Till’s Casket. In Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage, D. Olsen and M. Korstanje, eds., 176–184. Wallingford, UK: CABI.

Conference Presentations

Matthew Cook, Amy Potter, LaToya Eaves, Perry Carter, Candace Bright Hall-Wurst (2025). Defying Displacement: The Activist Legacy of the Paul Robeson House and Museum. American Association of Geographers. Detroit, Michigan.

Amy Potter, Matthew Cook, LaToya Eaves, Perry Carter, Candace Bright Hall-Wurst (2024). “Sustaining Black Neighborhoods and Black Communities”: Black Museums in the Wake of Gentrification. Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Greenville, SC.

LaToya Eaves, Matthew Cook, Amy Potter, Perry Carter, Candace Bright Hall-Wurst (2024). “Sustaining Black Neighborhoods and Black Communities”: Black Museums in the Wake of Gentrification. American Association of Geographers. Honolulu, Hawaii.

Amy Potter (2024). What is your relevance to this neighborhood? Why are you here?”: Black Museums in the Wake of Gentrification. Kent State University Geography Colloquium and Georgia Southern University Strozier Lecture Series.

LaToya Eaves, Amy Potter, Matthew Cook, Perry Carter, Candace Bright (2023). “Sustaining Black Neighborhoods and Black Communities”: Black Museums in the Wake of Gentrification. International Conference of Critical Geography IX. Mexico City, MX.

LaToya Eaves, Amy Potter, Matthew Cook, Perry Carter, Candace Bright (2023). “Because the Lord has given me this”: The sacred reckoning of Black museum geographies. American Association of Geographers. Denver, Colorado.

LaToya Eaves with Matthew Cook, Amy Potter, Perry Carter, and Candace Forbes Bright (2022). “Urgent Care”: Revisioning Power and Place through Black Museums. Clark University Geography Department Colloquium Series, University of Arkansas Department of Geosciences Colloquium Lecture Series.

Rebecca Neely (GSU undergraduate student) and Amy Potter (2022). “That’s how gentrification has rolled out:” A GIS Analysis of Neighborhood Change Around Black History Museums. Southeastern Division of the Association of America Geographers. Atlanta, GA.

Matthew Cook, Amy Potter, LaToya Eaves Perry Carter, and Candace Forbes Bright (2021). Placing African American Museums in the American Tourism Landscape: The National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center in Wilberforce, OH. Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers. Florence, Alabama.

Amy Potter, LaToya Eaves, Matthew Cook, Perry Carter, and Candace Forbes Bright (2021). Placing African American Museums in the American Tourism Landscape: The Colored Girls Museum of Philadelphia, PA. Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers. Florence, Alabama.

LaToya Eaves, Matthew Cook, Amy Potter, Perry Carter, and Candace Forbes Bright (2021). Enacting Method in Black Geographies: Black History Museums and Disciplinary Knowledge Production. Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers. Florence, Alabama.

Perry Carter (2021). Art Works: Rendering The Absence Present by Bearing Witness at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. Baltimore, MD.