Demonic Grounds

Katherine McKittrick is professor of gender studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen's University. She is author of Dear Science and Other Stories and Heartbreak and Other Geographies, edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne (Minnesota, 2026). She is editor of Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis and coeditor, with Clyde Woods, of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.Simone Browne is associate professor of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness.Sylvia Wynter is professor emerita in Afro-American studies and Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. She is author of the novel Hills of Hebron; several plays, including Maskerade; and many groundbreaking essays, articles, and commentaries that focus on and enact anticolonial praxes.

• Foreword. Through and Beyond: A Note to Demonic GroundsSimone BrowneIntroduction: Geographic Stories1. I Lost an Arm on My Last Trip Home: Black Geographies2. The Last Place They Thought Of: Black Women's Geographies3. The Authenticity of This Story Has Not Been Documented: Auction Blocks4. Nothing's Shocking: Black Canada5. Demonic Grounds: Sylvia WynterConclusion: Stay HumanAfterword. Notes on Katherine McKittrick's Demonic GroundsSylvia WynterAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex