Black artists, activists, and residents describe their sense of place as part of efforts to claim community space in the midst of racialised dispossession in Oakland, California. “Vibe” is a term used to describe this relationship. The author explains the term by drawing on ethnographic and archival data from research conducted in Oakland between 2019 and 2020. This paper explores vibe as the means by which black life is emotionally, relationally, and geographically made possible in the midst of structural racial violence. The author breaks vibe down into three modalities, or structures of relation, through which vibe is commonly evoked: hustle, care, and openness. These forms of relation are unpacked using the story of one local Black business owner. Vibe, thus, is more than a description, but an expression of relation that is politically, culturally, and economically central to Black geographic imaginaries and struggles.

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感受氛围：加利福尼亚州奥克兰黑人地方感的关系和实践

黑人艺术家、活动家和居民将他们的地方感描述为在加利福尼亚州奥克兰的种族剥夺中争取社区空间的努力的一部分。“氛围”是用来描述这种关系的术语。作者利用 2019 年至 2020 年在奥克兰进行的研究中的人种学和档案数据来解释这个术语。本文探讨了“氛围”是黑人生活在结构性种族暴力中在情感、关系和地理上得以实现的手段。作者将氛围分为三种模式或关系结构，通常通过这三种模式或关系结构来唤起氛围：忙碌、关心和开放。这些形式的关系是通过当地一位黑人企业主的故事来展开的。因此，氛围不仅仅是一种描述，而是一种在政治、文化和经济上对黑人地理想象和斗争至关重要的关系的表达。