Our Invisible Wakandas: A Black Planning Scholar’s Reflections on Black Panther & Saving Historic Black Places Note: There might be spoilers…and a little rambling. Black Panther was a visual feast. The film was affirming in many ways, problematic in others. I am sharing reflections on the film less as a review, and more on how…
Find the link to press, the final report, and presentations to Fort Bend County government here. The Fifth Street Project: A Neighborhood Planning Process & Market Study
Looking for examples of anti-banking system, anti-respectability, pro-cooperative Black planning &community building? Try 19th Century Texas History. I recently published an article on race gender, planning, and mutual aid called “The Farmers’ Improvement Society and the Women’s Barnyard Auxiliary of Texas: African American Community Building in the Progressive Era,” in the Journal of Planning History.…
Underrepresented Community Grants Funding Announcement The National Park Service is currently accepting applications for fiscal year 2016! Congress has appropriated $500,000 for this program. Details on eligible recipients and how to apply are posted on Grants.gov under Funding Opportunity #P16AS00184. Applications are due on July 15, 2016. Detailed instructions on how to apply are provided here (PDF). If…
Pursing a graduate degree requires discipline and confidence. It is a process that also requires commitment and sustained interest. Doctoral degrees in particular, demand something more than an interest in attaining another credential. You need to be personally invested in the new knowledge you create. Creating new knowledge is a process that simultaneously exposes us…
Online cemetery directory. FIS is also known as New Hope in some records. https://billiongraves.com/cemetery/New-Hope-Cemetery/103256
Update on Rosewood Courts in Austin! Here’s a little background on the Courts: http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/opinion/phillips-rosewood-courts-more-than-worthy-of-histo/nnN5h/ Here’s a snippet of last night’s (follow link) City Historic Landmark Commission meeting on the matter of it being designated a local landmark. See Item 7A 5 Item 7A 5 C14H-2015-0008 Rosewood Courts 2001 Rosewood Avenue Council District 1 Applicant: Fred McGhee; Historic Landmark…
I go through a little music withdrawal whenever I return from dissertation research in East Texas. These are just a few of the songs I miss hearing all the time. I hear them when I go to homecoming celebrations in East Texas, but not so much anywhere else. Some I remember being sung a little…
“The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who did, 88% owned twenty or fewer. Whites who did not own slaves were primarily yeoman farmers. Practically speaking, the institution…
