Introduction - Finding and Mapping Black Women in the Interstices
Kimberly Blockett
1. Sankofa Imperatives: Black Women, Digital Methods, and the Archival Turn
P. Gabrielle Foreman
2. Black Women Making Place in Nineteenth- Century Newspapers
Teresa Zackodnik
3. Matilda Hawkins Tyler: Mapping One Woman’s Geography of Kinship and Perseverance
Kelly L. Schmidt
4. Race, Space, and Celebrating Simms: Mapping Strategies for Black Feminist Biographical Recovery
Mollie Godfrey and Seán McCarthy
5. Nancy Prince: Strategic (Re)mappings through Travel and Text
Ali Friedburg Tal-mason
6. “An Elegy of Place”: Affective Mapping in June Jordan’s Civil Wars
Jennifer D. Williams
7. We Are Here: Jesmyn Ward’s Black Feminist Poethics of Place in Men We Reaped
Stacie McCormick
8. Towards a Method of Black Feminist Archival Bricolage: Memory-Keeping within, beneath and beyond the Archive
Tiera Tanksley
Biography
Kimberly D. Blockett is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware, Newark, USA. She employs archives and cultural geography to examine Black women’s movement. The archival work for her recent edition (2021) and book (2024) on Zilpha Elaw was funded by the Ford Foundation, the NEH, and Harvard Divinity School.
