Past Reading Lists:
Spring 2020:
Theme for the Quarter: Glissant in Relation
Meeting 1:
- Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (“Approaches”)
- J. Michael Dash, Edouard Glissant (Introduction, Chapters 1 & 6)
Meeting 2:
- Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (“Elements”)
- Paget Henry, Caliban’s Reason (Chapter 3)
Meeting 3:
- Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (“Path”)
- Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”
- David Scott, “Islands of Créolité,” Small Axe
- See also Richard & Sally Price, “Shadowboxing in the Mangrove,” Cultural Anthropology; Richard Price, “Créolisation, Creolization, and Créolité,” Small Axe; Sally Price, “Beyond Francophonie,” Small Axe
Meeting 4:
- Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (“Theories”)
- Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation–An Argument,” CR: The New Centennial Review
Meeting 5:
- Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (“Poetics”)
- Documentary: Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTNVe_BAELY
- Katherine McKittrick, Demonic Grounds (Introduction); Katherine McKittrick, “Commentary: Worn Out,” Southeastern Geographer
- Neil Roberts, Freedom as Marronage (Chapter 5)
Fall 2020:
Theme for the Quarter: Land, ecology, and agrarian geographies
Meeting 1: Collective Healing & Black Food Sovereignty – October 20
- Leah Penniman – Short Essay: “By Reconnecting with the soil we heal ourselves” (2019)
- Monica White – Reflection: “Freedom Seeds and Collective Agency” (2017)
- Magie Ramirez – Article: “The Elusive Inclusive” (2014)
- Priscilla McCutcheon – Article: “Fannie Lou Hamer and Black Agrarian Geographies” (2019)
Meeting 2: Abolition ecologies – November 3
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Intercepted podcast (2020)
- Françoise Vergès: “Racial Capitalocene” (2017)
- Lindsey Dillon and Julie Sze: “Police Power and Particulate Matter” (2016)
- Laura Pulido and Juan De Lara: “Reimagining ‘Justice’ in Environmental Justice” (2017)
- Nik Heynen and Megan Ybarra: “On Abolition Ecologies and Making ‘Freedom as a Place” (2020).
Meeting 3: Speculative fiction about gardens, land, nature – November 17
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993)
- The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin (2015 – 2017)
- members read excerpts or reflected on past readings of the above & reviewed Afrofuturist imagery
Meeting 4: Close Reading of Fanon – December 1
- Wretched of the Earth, Chapters 1-3 (1961)
Meeting 5: Black/Latinx Geographies – December 8
- Excerpts from La Frontera/Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldúa (1987)
- Madeleine Cahaus – Article: “Interrogating Absences in Latinx Theory and Placing Blackness in Latinx Geographical Thought” (2019)
- Dr Jones’ – Poem: in Voices from the Ancestors (2019)
- Further Reading/Listening: by Ariana Brown – Spoken Word & Performance
Winter 2021:
Theme for the Quarter: Black (Geographic) Methods
Meeting 1:
- Black Geographies of Quarantine“, 2020.
- Naya Jones. “Dying to Eat: Black Food Geographies of Slow Violence and Resilience.” ACME: International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2019, 18(5): 1076 – 1099. https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1683
- John L. Jackson. “An Ethnographic Filmflam: Giving Gifts, Doing Research, and Videotaping the Native Subject/ Object,” American Anthropologist, 106 (1), 32-42. 2004. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/214165764.pdf
- McKittrick, Katherine. “Diachronic Loops/Deadweight Tonnage/Bad Made Measure.” Cultural Geographies, vol. 23, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 3–18, https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015612716
- William A. Kearney and Pavithra Vasudevan. “Remembering Kearneytown: Race, Place and Collective Memory in Collaborative Filmmaking.” Area 48 (4): 455-462. 2015. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/443832/summary
Meeting 2:
- The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy
- Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail (Chapter 2)
- Katherine McKittrick, Demonic Grounds (Introduction)
- Deb Thomas, Tina Campt, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Bayo Holsey, “Diasporic Hegemonies”: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/443832/summary
- Stefan Helmreich. “Kinship, Nation, and Paul Gilroy’s Concept of Diaspora.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, vol. 2 no. 2, 1992, p. 243-249. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/dsp.1992.0016.
Meeting 3:
- Michel-Rolph Trouillot; North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492–1945. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 2002; 101 (4): 839–858. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-4-839
- Nick Mitchell. “(Critical Ethnic Studies) Intellectual.” Critical Ethnic Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, University of Minnesota Press, 2015, pp. 86–94, https://doi.org/10.5749/jcritethnstud.1.1.0086.
Meeting 4:
- Andrea Smith, Jenell Navarro, and Tiffany Lethabo King. Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness. United Kingdom, Duke University Press, 2020.
- Tiffany Lethabo King. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. United Kingdom, Duke University Press, 2019.
Spring 2021:
Theme for the Quarter: Slow Reading – Black Science
Meeting 1:
- Katherine McKittrick. Dear Science and Other Stories (Part 1). United States, Duke University Press, 2020.
Meeting 2:
- Katherine McKittrick. Dear Science and Other Stories (Part 2). United States, Duke University Press, 2020.
Meeting 3:
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Part 1). United States, Bold Type Books, 2021.
Meeting 4:
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Part 2). United States, Bold Type Books, 2021.
Fall 2021:
Theme for the Quarter: Slow Reading – New Work in Black Geographies
Readings:
- Jovan Scott Lewis. Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica. United Kingdom, University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
- Sylvia Wynter, . “Beyond the Categories of the Master Conception: The Counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis” in CLR James’s Caribbean. Duke University Press, 1992. 63-91.