Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle McKittrick Katherine Paperback
Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle McKittrick Katherine Paperback IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and…
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Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle McKittrick Katherine Paperback
IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women's geographic thought. Analyzing diverse literatures and material geographies, McKittrick reveals how human geographies are a result of racialized connections, and how spaces that are fraught with limitation are underacknowledged but meaningful sites of political opposition.Demonic Grounds moves between past and present, archives and fiction, theory and everyday, to focus on places negotiated by black women during and after the transatlantic slave trade. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery.
Specifically, the author addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacobs's attic, black Canada and New France, as well as