ratchetness as praxis.
My work poses the following questions: how might examining the ways that Black femaleness is formed at intersection of slavery and settler colonialism tell us more about how the landscapes of slavery and settler colonialism are created? What analytical tools and vocabulary do we need to develop in order to simultaneously bring into view the productive and repressive powers of settler colonialism and slavery/anti-Black racism? How are the imagined and material spaces that are currently over determined by a discourse of conflict (genocide, sovereignty) between white Settlers and Natives also shaped by Black presence? How are the landscapes and analytics of slavery that currently are over determined by Master and Slave relations also structured by Native genocide and settler space making practices. Finally, I ask, how do we develop methodological tools to track the co-constituting nature of power relations over time?
- Tiffany King, “In the Clearing: Black Female Bodies, Space and Settler Colonial Landscapes” p. 15