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The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations of humanness. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is a critical genealogy of Wynter s work, highlighting her insights on how race, location, and time together inform what it means to be human. The contributors explore Wynter s stunning reconceptualization of the human in relation to concepts of blackness, modernity, urban space, the...

The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations of humanness. "Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis" is a critical genealogy of Wynter s work, highlighting her insights on how race, location, and time together inform what it means to be human. The contributors explore Wynter s stunning reconceptualization of the human in relation to concepts of blackness, modernity, urban space, the...

IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women's geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery. Analyzing diverse literatures and material geographies, McKittrick reveals how human geographies are a result of racialized connections, and how spaces that are fraught with limitation are underacknowledged but meaningful sites of political opposition.

Demonic Grounds moves between past...