Katherine McKittrick is a scholar whose work delves into Black studies, cultural geography, and anti-colonial diaspora studies. She critically examines how social justice manifests within Black creative texts, encompassing music, fiction, poetry, and visual art. McKittrick pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to Black and Black feminist geography, emphasizing the embodied, creative, and intellectual spaces engendered in the diaspora. Her research bridges epistemological narratives and the pursuit of social justice.
Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies, exploring how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness.
Explores how black women's geographies are meaningful sites of political opposition. This work offers a fresh interpretation of black women's geographic thought. Analyzing diverse literatures and material geographies, it reveals how human geographies are a result of racialized connections.