A review by miguel
Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick

5.0

Katherine McKittrick does monumental work in this text. Shattering the binary notions of marginalization and subversion and supplanting them with textured geographic inquiry, McKittrick moves deftly through material, epochs, and mediums to interrogate society's notions of transparent space and argues for geography, space, and place as socially constituted. McKittrick sells herself extremely short when claiming to not make the same contributions to metaphysics as Sylvia Wynter, who McKittrick frequently cites. McKittrick is at her best when breezily explicating the notoriously difficult Wynter material in furtherance of her argument. McKittrick is a scholar of a class all her own, and while following in the tradition of many black feminist thinkers, establishes a paradigm that moves Wynter's thinking (slightly) in a new direction.