In the introduction to Katherine McKittrick’s book, Demonic Grounds, she defines the term “geographies of domination” as the counterpoint to black women’s geographies. The examples she provides include transatlantic slavery and racial-sexual displacement, two particular ways of relating to land with the objective of absolute control. This relationship sees the earth, and other bodies, as commodities to be maximized for profit, rather than living beings. It is a way of seeing the world as something that is static and stable; that “just is” (McKittrick xi). It also shows up in the literary history of the Americas via “white masculine European mappings, explorations, conquests” which legitimize a “rational spatial colonization and domination: the profitable erasure and objectification of subaltern subjectivities, stories, and lands” (McKittrick x). This process attempts to erase the life and vitality of places and peoples as a means of justifying colonial land seizure and cultural erasure.