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Katherine McKittrick

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Katherine McKittrick is a Canadian scholar whose work connects Black studies, feminist theory, cultural studies, and human geography. Her 2006 book Demonic Grounds examines how racial domination is organized spatially while recovering the geographic thought and practices of Black women. Her scholarship is widely associated with Black geographies and is intended for readers studying race, place, power, and knowledge production.

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What is Katherine McKittrick's most famous book?

Her best-known work is Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, published in 2006. In this book, she applies a Black feminist lens to human geography to explore how racial domination is structured spatially.

Where does Katherine McKittrick teach?

Katherine McKittrick is a Professor and former Chair of the Gender Studies department at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Her academic work bridges the fields of Black studies, gender studies, and cultural geography.

What does Katherine McKittrick mean by demonic grounds?

McKittrick borrows the mathematical concept of demonic surfaces—which fold infinitely—to describe the complex, intersecting spaces of Black women's lives. She uses it to argue that traditional geography often erases Black women, but their spatial practices reveal complex, valuable geographic knowledge.

Has Katherine McKittrick written about specific historical figures?

Yes, she has written extensively about enslaved individuals and how they navigated space, most notably analyzing the letters of the Jamaican-Scottish woman Mary Seacole. Her work seeks to recover the geographic thought and spatial practices of marginalized Black women.

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