" "Wynter opens up a new function for human geographies, one that takes “new forms of life” as seriously as it takes biocentric spatial organizations (or present forms of life). The geographic meaning of racialized human geographies is not so much rooted in a paradoxical description as it is a projection of life, livability, and possibility. Poetics, real and imagined geographies, put demands on traditional geographic arrangements because they expose the racial-sexual functions of the production of space and establish new ways to read (and perhaps live) geography.
Geographic alternatives are best displayed through communicative acts—geographic expressions that, as mentioned in previous chapters, cite/site underacknowledged black geographies. I want to conclude by dis- cussing black women’s geographies as communicative expressions of what Wynter calls “a third perspective,” those new forms of life that assert new geographic formulations. I am in part returning, then, to deep space and a poetics of landscape (as they are expressive) and the conundrum of geography as it is produced in relation to imaginative-real black human geographies." -- in Demonic Grounds. Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, Katherine McKittrick, 2006
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