Black Freedomscapes: The Mangrove Swamp as Queer and Interstitial Space

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Brief Overview

This paper positions “de muck” of the mangrove swamp as an interstitial and fugue space of black freedom struggle in the space of the hemispheric American plantation in theory and praxis for alternative archivists.

Author

• Marshall L. Smith, Cornell University