Black Spaces

Heather Merrill is Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Her research examines place, space, race, belonging, Black Europe and the relationship between Europe and Africa. She is an anti-racist critical human geographer whose theoretical work is grounded in ethnography of African Diaspora in Italy. She is the co-editor of Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday and the author of An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race.

1. Witness to the Unthought Position: Introduction. 2. Africa-Italy: A Genealogy of Relational Places. 3. Black/black Spaces: Lived Experiences and Geographic logics. 4. Unarchived Everyday Violence. 5. Reading the death of Sylvester Agyemang: Can you be BLACK and bear this? 6. Grammar and Ghosts: Refugees and Migrants in Italy. 7. Re-imagining Future Geographies: Conclusion 8. Bibliography. 9. Timeline. 10. Glossary.