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Demonic Grounds:

Black Women And the Cartographies of Struggle
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University of Minnesota Press, 2006 - Social Science - 190 pages
In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women’s geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery. 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. Specifically, the author addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacobs’s attic, black Canada and New France, as well as the conceptual spaces of feminism and Sylvia Wynter’s philosophies.

Central to McKittrick’s argument are the ways in which black women are not passive recipients of their surroundings and how a sense of place relates to the struggle against domination. Ultimately, McKittrick argues, these complex black geographies are alterable and may provide the opportunity for social and cultural change.

Katherine McKittrick is assistant professor of women’s studies at Queen’s University.

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About the author (2006)

Assistant Professor in women's studies at Queen's University is the author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (U. Minnesota Press, 2006). A frequent contributor to journals and books McKitrick has worked as a volunteer with the Toronto Women's Bookstore

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TitleDemonic Grounds: Black Women And the Cartographies of Struggle
AuthorKatherine McKittrick
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2006
ISBN0816647011, 9780816647019
Length190 pages
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Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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