“Freedom Is a Secret”
The Future Usability of the Underground
From: Black Geographies
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This chapter explores the Underground Railroad as it is presented in Harriet’s Daughter and consider the ways in which Marlene Nourbese Philip imagines “the political currents of transatlantic insurgency” in a post-slave context: Toronto, Canada, in 1989.
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Katherine McKittrick
Katherine McKittrick lives in Toronto and teaches gender studies, critical race studies, and indigenous studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Her interdisciplinary research examines questions of socio-spatial justice in the black diaspora—particularly through creative texts (poetry, music, fiction). She is the author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (2006) and is researching the writings of Sylvia Wynter.
