A Similar Place: Resistance and Existence in 21st Century Black and Native Women's Memoirs. (February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Warburton, Theresa
• Other Names: Rowe Aimee Carrillo guest-editor.; Tuck Eve guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 17:Number 1(2017:Feb.)
• Page Start: 41
• Page End: 49
• Publication Date: 2017-02
• Subjects: Native American Studies -- ethnicity and race -- feminist studies -- gender and sexuality -- grounded theory and social justice -- grounded theory -- methodologies; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708616643988
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

In 2014, Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Simpson connected #BlackLivesMatter and #MMIWG2S by highlighting their existence in "a similar place." Here, I interpret this as a space of shared emotion and geography, emphasizing the land on which anti-Black and colonial violences occur. I argue that this provides a methodology for the study of multiethnic literature in a way that reckons with the interrelatedness of settler colonialism and anti-Black racism without conflating them under the auspices of "multiculturalism." I read memoirs by Deborah Miranda and Jesmyn Ward to explore how they articulate the relationship between personal and spatial history.