# The Black Aerial Imagination, Vol. 1

By **Delali Kumavie**

- ISBN-13: 9780231222525
- Series: [Black Lives In The Diaspora: Past Present Future](https://mybookbandits.com/series/black-lives-in-the-diaspora-past-present-future)
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- Published: 16 Jun 2026

## About this book

Across a range of literary texts, Black writers depict taking flight to escape systems of subordination from the Middle Passage and the plantation to the present-day racialized order. While flight, air, and aviation technologies have long held out the promise of freedom, they also function as devices for constraining B

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