Black geographies and the politics of place / edited by Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods. - Toronto, Ont. : Cambridge, Mass. : Between the Lines ; South End Press, 2007. - vii, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"No one knows the mysteries at the bottom of the ocean" / Towards African diaspora citizenship : politicizing an existing global geography / "Sittin' on top of the world" : the challenges of blues and hip hop geography / Memories of africville : urban renewal, reparations, and the Africadian diaspora / "Freedom is a secret" / Henry Box Brown, an international fugitive : slavery, resistance, and imperialism / "Realm of monuments and water" : lorde-ian erotics and Shange's African diaspora cosmopolitanism / "Lost tribe of a lost tribe" : black British Columbia and the poetics of space / Deportable or admissible? : black women and the space of "removal" / Mapping black atlantic performance geographies : from slave ship to ghetto / Urban revolutions and the spaces of black radicalism / Homopoetics : queer space and the black queer diaspora / Letter from the Rastafari community of Shashamane to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, June 27, 2001. Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods -- Carole Boyce Davies and Babacar M'Bow -- Clyde Woods -- Angel David Nieves -- Katherine McKittrick -- Susette A. Spencer -- Kimberly N. Ruffin -- Peter James Hudson -- Jenny Burman -- Sonjah Stanley Niaah -- James A. Tyner -- Rinaldo Walcott -- Appendix,

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African Americans--Social conditions.
African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans--Population.
Blacks--Social conditions.--Canada
Blacks--Race identity--Canada.
Blacks--Population.--Canada
African diaspora.
Human geography--United States.
Human geography--Canada.
Geography--Psychological aspects.

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