Freighted Love: teaching, learning, and making a home in the maelstrom

Abstract

In ‘Freighted Love: Teaching, Learning, and Making a Home in the Maelstrom’ Christina Heatherton describes the connections between poetry, theories of urban space, and what geographer Clyde Woods calls ‘blues epistemology.’ In this brief introduction to her three poems, ‘Freighted Love,’ ‘Pedagogy,’ and ‘Invasions,’ Heatherton stresses the need for these connections in theory and practice. Such an understanding, she argues, offers the potential for developing more socially-minded forms of teaching and scholarship as well as ways of being in the world.

Key words:

• poetry
• teaching
• learning
• home
• homelessness

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Notes on contributors

Christina Heatherton

Christina Heatherton is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the co-editor with Jordan T. Camp of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016) and is currently completing Making Internationalism: The Color Line, the Class Struggle, and the Mexican Revolution (University of California Press). She co-directs multiple public-facing initiatives including the Racial Capitalism Working Group through the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University. Email: [email protected]