Black Geographies is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their geopolitical relevance with regards to race, uneven geographies, and resistance.
Multi-faceted and erudite, Black Geographies brings into focus the politics of place that black subjects, communities, and philosophers inhabit. Highlights include essays on the African diaspora and its interaction with citizenship and nationalism, critical readings of the blues and hip-hop, and thorough deconstructions of Nova Scotian and British Columbian black topography. Drawing on historical, contemporary, and theoretical black geographies from the USA, the Caribbean, and Canada, these essays provide an exploration of past and present black spatial theories and experiences.
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Chapter 1 | "No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Ocean" Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods |
Chapter 2 | Towards African Diaspora Citizenship: Politicizing an Existing Global Geography Carole Boyce Davies and Babacar M'Bow |
Chapter 3 | "Sittin' on Top of the World": The Challenges of Blues and Hip Hop Geography Clyde Woods |
Chapter 4 | Memories of Africville: Urban Renewal, Reparations, and the Africadaian Diaspora Angel David Nieves |
Chapter 5 | "Freedom is a Secret" Katherine McKittrick |
Chapter 6 | Henry Box Brown, an International Fugitive: Slavery, Resistance, and Imperialism Suzette A. Spencer |
Chapter 7 | "A Realm of Monuments and Water": Lorde-ian Erotics and Shange's African Diaspora Cosmopolitanism Kimberly N. Ruffin |
Chapter 8 | "The Lost Tribe of a Lost Tribe": Black British Columbia and the Poetics of Space Peter James Hudson |
Chapter 9 | Deportable or Admissible?: Black Women and the Space of "Removal" Jenny Burman |
Chapter 10 | Mapping Black Atlantic Performance Geographies: From Slave Ship to Ghetto Sonjah Stanley Niaah |
Chapter 11 | Urban Revolutions and the Spaces of Black Radicalism James A. Tyner |
Chapter 12 | Homopoetics: Queer Space and the Black Queer Diaspora Rinaldo Walcott |
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