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Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies, exploring how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness.
List of contents
He Liked to Say that This Love was the Result of a Clinical Error ix
Curiosities (My Heart Makes My Head Swim) 1
Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor) 14
The Smallest Cell Remembers a Sound 35
Consciousness (Feeling like, Feeling like This) 58
Something That Exceeds All Efforts to Definitively Pin It Down 71
No Place, Unknown, Undetermined 75
Notes 79
Black Ecologies. Coral Cities. Catch a Wave 83
Charmaine's Wire 87
Polycarbonate, Aluminum (Gold), and Lacquer 91
Black Children 95
Telephone Listing 99
Failure (My Head Was Full of Misty Fumes of Doubt) 103
The Kick Drum Is the Fault 122
(Zong) Bad Made Measure 125
I Got Life/Rebellion Invention Groove 151
(I Entered the Lists) 168
Dear Science 186
Notes and Reminders 189
Storytellers 193
Diegeses and Bearings 211
About the author
Katherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies at Queen's University, editor of
Sylvia Wynter: On Being as Human Praxis, also published by Duke University Press, and author of
Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle.
Summary
Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies, exploring how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness.
