Black Geographies and the Politics of Place
McKittrick, Katherine / Woods, Clyde
The history of black people in the Americas and the Caribbean cannot be told without addressing powerful geographical shifts: massive forced migrations, land dispossession, and legal as well as informal structures of segregation. From the Middle Passage to the "Whites Only" signposts of US apartheid, the black Diasporic experience is rooted firmly in the politics of place. Literature has long explored the cultural differences in the experience...