Black Metropolis

Black Metropolis is a poetry collection that captures a black urban landscape. In remixing form and syntax, the collection zooms in on real people, their language, and their culture. The collection ultimately tells the story of a place and people that are familiar with the struggles of capitalism and carry the weight of their histories in their daily conversations and interactions. The poems also emphasize how a Black Metropolis is not a monolith, instead it is our familial connections, bodies, religious affiliations, gender and sexuality, access to education and wealth, that make us all unique, but also binds us together.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Writing

Department dc:contributor.department

English

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• McKoy, Ashieda Montera

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Smith, Carmen Gimenez

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Meitner, Erika Sharon
• Giovanni, Nikki

• : black urban landscape
• black vernacular
• queerness
• mothering
• fatness
• community
• black bodies and femininity
• historical
• social and political meditation
• violence

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Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:25401

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/129376