SoiferI VtP Annotation: Demonic Grounds

"Geography is not, however, secure and unwavering; we produce space, we produce its meanings, and we work very hard to make geography what it is...We make concealment happen..." (xi)."...the politics of black geographies expose racial disavowal on spatial terms: what is seemingly not there, is; what is geographically missing for some is geographically relevant to others" (18)."Recognizing black women's knowledgeable positions as integral to physical, cartographic, and experiential geographies within and through dominant spatial models also creates an analytical space for black feminist geographies: black women's political, feminist imaginary, and creative concerns that respatialize the geographic legacy of racism-sexim" (53). "...it is not simply a marginal spatial-partial vantage point that divulges the workings of black womanhood or black feminism or feminism. And this is exactly where feminism(s) and other identity-theories sometimes get stuck, by recycling and politicizing biocentric modes of humanity in the margins, in the classroom, in theory; this emphasizes that hierarchical genres of human/gender difference will somehow complete the story. Instead, it is useful to imagine the ways in which the margin is a serious conceptual intervention into what it means to be/not be a black woman: the margin is part of the story, not the end of the story" (134).