Readings in Black Geographies

October 21, 2008 in Angel David Nieves, Babacar M'Bow, Carl H. Nightingale, Carole Boyce Davies, Clyde Woods, James A. Tyner, Jenny Burman, Katherine McKittrick, Kimberly N. Ruffin, Kofi Annan, Peter James Hudson, Rinaldo Walcott, Sonjah Stanley Niaah, Stephanie M. H. Camp, Suzette A. Spencer

Carl H. Nightingale.  “Before Race Mattered: Geographies of the Color Line in Early Colonial Madras and New York.” The American Historical Review 113, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 48-71. First paragraph: By the 1710s, British authorities at both Madras, India, and New York City had made, by fits and starts, more than a half-century of [...]

Dispossession and the African Diaspora

December 11, 2007 in Katherine McKittrick, Kim Butler, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Tags: african diaspora, books

Thoughts after reading Katherine McKittrick’s Demonic Grounds: First, dispossession is crucial to creating African diasporas. Dispossession refers to the sense of injustice, the sense that something has been taken: land, goods, labor, religion, art, natural resources, manufacturing, or people. Dispossession is not the same as dispersal, which is necessary to create the conditions of diaspora [...]