Katherine McKittrick

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#74

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According to Wikipedia, Katherine McKittrick is a Canadian professor and academic, writer, and editor. She is a professor in Gender studies at Queen's University. She is an academic and writer whose work focuses on black studies, cultural geography, anti-colonial and diaspora studies, with an emphasis on the ways in which liberation emerges in black creative texts . While many scholars have researched the areas of North American, European, Caribbean, and African black geographies, McKittrick was the first scholar to put forth the interdisciplinary possibilities of black and black feminist geography, with an emphasis on embodied, creative and intellectual spaces engendered in the diaspora.

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Katherine McKittrick's Published Works

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Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle (2006) (842)
On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place (2011) (515)
Plantation Futures (2013) (408)
Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?: Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations (2014) (276)
Mathematics Black Life (2014) (274)
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (2014) (216)
Dear Science and Other Stories (2020) (129)
Diachronic loops/deadweight tonnage/bad made measure (2016) (80)
The Geographies of Blackness and Anti-Blackness: An Interview with Katherine McKittrick (2014) (61)
Rebellion/Invention/Groove (2016) (52)
‘Black and’ Cause I'm Black I'm Blue: Transverse racial geographies in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (2000) (39)
Commentary: Worn out (2017) (34)
"Their Blood Is There, and They Can't Throw It Out:" Honouring Black Canadian Geographies (2002) (33)
'Who do you talk to, when a body's in trouble?: M. Nourbese Philip's (un)silencing of black bodies in the diaspora (2000) (28)
Yours in the Intellectual Struggle: Sylvia Wynter and the Realization of the Living (2014) (21)
Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of Science (2014) (16)
Science Quarrels Sculpture: The Politics of Reading Sarah Baartman (2010) (15)
Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter's Science of the Word (2018) (12)
Wait Canada Anticipate Black (2014) (8)
Dear April: The Aesthetics of Black Miscellanea (2021) (7)
Neil Smith's Long Revolutionary Imperative (2017) (5)
Keywords in Radical Geography: An Introduction (2019) (3)
Quiescent Change: Reading Barack Obama, Reading Race and Racism, Reading Whiteness (2012) (3)
Rift (2019) (1)
Remembering and reading the work of Richard Iton (1961–2013) (2015) (1)
Respite. Quiet. A House of Dreams. (2022) (0)
I Lost an Arm on My Last Trip Home: Black Geographies (2017) (0)
Of Dionne Brand's Difficult Pleasures (2016) (0)
Book Review: Race, nature, and the politics of difference (2005) (0)
Quiescent Change: Reading Barack Obama, Reading Race and Racism, Reading Whiteness (2012) (0)
Remembering and reading the work of Richard Iton (1961–2013) (2015) (0)
"Demonic Grounds: Sylvia Wynter," excerpt from Demonic Grounds (2006) (2020) (0)
RECLAIMING DIFFERENCE: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism (2006) (0)
The Dead Letter Office (2015) (0)

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