ABSTRACT
As black Americans living in a small Kentucky town, the railroad tracks were a daily reminder of our marginality. Understanding marginality as position and place of resistance is crucial for oppressed, exploited, colonized people. If the reader only view the margin as sign marking the despair, a deep nihilism penetrates in a destructive way the very ground of our being. A message from that space in the margin that is a site of creativity and power, that inclusive space where the reader recover ourselves, where their move in solidarity to erase the category colonized/colonizer. Spaces can be real and imagined. Spaces can tell stories and unfold histories. Spaces can be interrupted, appropriated, and transformed through artistic and literary practice. Understanding marginality as position and place of resistance is crucial for oppressed, exploited, colonized people. If the reader only view the margin as sign marking the despair, a deep nihilism penetrates in a destructive way the very ground of our being.
