Prologue: Black dream geographies

Abstract

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic. I suppose I could dispense with the last four if I were not so deadly serious about fidelity to the milieu out of which I write and in which my ancestors actually lived.

Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies

“…Often drawing on literary writers (Toni Morrison or Octavia Butler, for example), these writers try to find words that will bring that analytical sensibility in an emotional register that reflects the ‘tending’ or tender care to which Sharpe refers (see above). A good example is Jones's (2021) short intervention that reflects, in dream-like prose, on why so many observers were asking whether Breonna Taylor was sleeping, perhaps dreaming, when she was killed in a police raid, in her home in Kentucky, United States. The question is revealed as a witnessing to ‘Black interiority, movements, and epistemologies in their complexity’ (Jones, 2021: 827).…”

“…A good example is Jones's (2021) short intervention that reflects, in dream-like prose, on why so many observers were asking whether Breonna Taylor was sleeping, perhaps dreaming, when she was killed in a police raid, in her home in Kentucky, United States. The question is revealed as a witnessing to ‘Black interiority, movements, and epistemologies in their complexity’ (Jones, 2021: 827). The #sayhername or #forbreonnataylor Twitter campaigns were not only calls for justice, but were also campaigns about, as Kadian Pow in another context (2018: 239) eloquently expresses, ‘Claiming the full humanity of our blackness, in whatever ways we can…’…”