Demonic grounds : Black women and the cartographies of struggle / Katherine McKittrick.

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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, Katherine McKittrick addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacobs's a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKittrick, Katherine
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Women, Black > America > Social conditions.
African diaspora.
Human geography > America.
Geography > Psychological aspects.
Slavery > America > History.
Enslaved women > America > History.
Women, Black > Political activity > America.
Women, Black, in literature.
America > Race relations.
America > Geography > Psychological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Human geography.
Race relations.
Slavery.
Women, Black > Political activity.
Women, Black > Social conditions.
America.
History.
Genre:
History.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxi, 190 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : geographic stories
  • I lost an arm on my last trip home : Black geographies
  • The last place they thought of : Black women's geographies
  • The authenticity of this story has not been documented : auction blocks
  • Nothing's shocking : Black Canada
  • Demonic grounds : Sylvia Wynter
  • Conclusion : stay human.