Black geographies and the politics of place

McKittrick, Katherine. (Added Author). Woods, Clyde Adrian. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0896087735 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 9780896087736 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: vii, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : Between the Lines ; Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"No one knows the mysteries at the bottom of the ocean" / Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods -- Towards African diaspora citizenship : politicizing an existing global geography / Carole Boyce Davies and Babacar M'Bow -- "Sittin' on top of the world" : the challenges of blues and hip hop geography / Clyde Woods -- Memories of africville : urban renewal, reparations, and the Africadian diaspora / Angel David Nieves -- "Freedom is a secret" / Katherine McKittrick -- Henry Box Brown, an international fugitive : slavery, resistance, and imperialism / Susette A. Spencer -- "Realm of monuments and water" : lorde-ian erotics and Shange's African diaspora cosmopolitanism / Kimberly N. Ruffin -- "Lost tribe of a lost tribe" : black British Columbia and the poetics of space / Peter James Hudson -- Deportable or admissible? : black women and the space of "removal" / Jenny Burman -- Mapping black atlantic performance geographies : from slave ship to ghetto / Sonjah Stanley Niaah -- Urban revolutions and the spaces of black radicalism / James A. Tyner -- Homopoetics : queer space and the black queer diaspora / Rinaldo Walcott -- Appendix, Letter from the Rastafari community of Shashamane to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, June 27, 2001.