ABSTRACT
Katherine McKittrick’s sustained exploration and analysis of Black women’s geographies is altogether revolutionary. Geography encompasses the full range of Black women’s knowledge and experiences that have been concealed through histories of geographic domination. McKittrick approaches Black women’s geography through an (anti)epistemological framework that she calls “the demonic.” She describes the demonic as a dark and unknowable conceptual terrain that has been denied within Eurocentric ways of mapping the world and charting epistemology. McKittrick stretches the idea of geography to include reimagining of individual selfhood, family, community, and society writ large. McKittrick provides scholars with a new vantage point and (anti)disciplinary space through which to examine the diverse complexities of Black women’s politics and activisms across multiple intellectual and geopolitical locales. McKittrick encourages us to learn from, rather than learn about, the unique ways that Black women have maintained our humanness in spite of consistent and ongoing efforts to render us subhuman.
