Erotic Consciousness: Black Geographies

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Black Geographies
The article “On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place” by Katherine McKittrick highlights the intricacies of black geographies and how they help explain slave and post-slave struggles in the Americas as well as efforts to eradicate a black sense of place. McKittrick posits that the plantations of the Americas not only cultivated black and non-black spaces but also provided the plan for yet to come racial entanglement. Black slaves were marked as those without since they lacked ownership of their selves, the land, or even distinct-Eurocentric history narratives. This dichotomous perspective of those with and those without would form the basis for future racial differentiation as evidenced by modern urbacide, particularly in regions populated by blacks (McKittrick, 2011). The destruction of a black sense of space continues today by wilful annihilation of...