WPPB Image Addons Dr. Andrea Roberts is an Associate Professor of Urban + Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture and has been appointed Co-Director of the School’s Center for Cultural Landscapes. She is a scholar-activist who brings 12 years of experience in community development, nonprofit administration, and advocacy to her…
PEER-REVIEWED Forthcoming Andrea Roberts, Valentina Aduen, Jennifer Blanks, Schuyler Carter, Kendall Girault, Digital Juneteenth: Territorializing the Freedom Colony Diaspora. (2022) Public Culture. Abstract: After Juneteenth, formerly enslaved African Americans in Texas founded hundreds of historic Black settlements known as freedom colonies. Later, freedom colonies’ populations dispersed, physical traces disappeared, and memories of locations vanished as…