Municipal Underbounding: Annexation & Racial Exclusion in Small Towns
Underbounding – Systematic, spatial exclusion of minorities in unincorporated areas. This trend is common in predominately Latino and African American communities. Most were former colonias and/or historic African American communities. Most research and activism around this issue has taken place in California’s migrant worker communities and some in the Carolinas. This problem however is prevalent…
Sensing Place: The power of intangible & invisible culture and heritage
So I am watching this Clark Sisters video, because sometimes I need a praise break. While watching it, I realized how much this song exemplifies why bringing more attention to memory and intangible culture in planning is so central to my life and work. yes Yes, I am a Doctoral student. And yes, I am…
Self governance, agency – the truth behind 40 acres and a mule.
Today, we commonly use the phrase “40 acres and a mule,” but few of us have read the Order itself. Three of its parts are relevant here. Section one bears repeating in full: “The islands from Charleston, south, the abandoned rice fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country…
What do you think makes a place or building historic?
My new blog has a poll on it called: “What makes a place or building historic?” What makes it worth saving, preserving, or protecting? Vote in the poll in the upper right hand corner of this blog, and leave a comment under this post. Don’t worry. I am not looking for a correct answer. I am…
Intention #3 – Connect personal and collective memory to vision & action
When you understand that freedom was a process, not a moment, then you can allow yourself to wonder what work is left for us in the next 100 years.”
Intention #2 for 2013: Heritage Preservation as Community Development
In 2013, I commit myself to making intangible heritage tangible, and manifesting visible change within invisible communities.” SANKOFA “return and get it” symbol of importance of learning from the past
Intentions for 2013: Heritage as Healer
“The healing of the progression of the family from the past into the future is essential if we are to be whole. The passing on and the receiving of the gifts of the genetic lines, and the acknowledgment and reconciliation of the past distortions and corruptions of those gifts, bring peace to the ancestral line…