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A review by mmcloe
Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
An incredibly invaluable and helpful toolkit for thinking through the role of space and place when talking about identity. I'm particularly struck by McKittrick's use of the "garret" as a critique/expansion of the idea of marginalization when talking about Black women. I've always been a little hesitant when referring to people or groups as "marginalized" but was never quite able to put my finger onto the reason why. McKittrick's analysis of how the "margins" aren't quite as far away as we think they are restructured the way I think about power and oppression.
Graphic: Racism, Sexism, and Slavery