memory – ANDREA ROBERTS

PUB: African American Planning, Cooperative Economics, & Community Building Minus the Respectability Politics.

Jul 11, 2016Andrea RobertsUncategorizedblack, black lives matter, building, community, domestic, farmers, feminism, history, justice, memory, planning, preservation, respectability, social, sustainability, Texas, womanism, women

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.…

On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, Remember Ft. Bend County’s Voting Rights Heroes

Aug 28, 2013Andrea RobertsUncategorizedanglo, black, commemoration, dc, fifthh street, Fort Bend County, history, march, markers, memory, stafford, terry v adams, Texas, washington, white

Fort Bend County’s little known African American history is in danger of being forgotten. Especially as it relates to struggles around voting rights in areas like Stafford and Fifth Street. The west end of the County commemorates the Terry V. Adams, which ended whites only primaries in Texas. See ceremony below: Terry v. Adams Marker…

An Infatuation with Plantation Imaginaries: Paula Deen’s Demise

Jun 21, 2013Andrea Roberts4 CommentsUncategorizedafrican, agoraphobia, black, Food Network, foodways, heritage, imaginaries, memory, Paula Deen, plantation, poor, poverty, slavery, Southern, white

This is not just about being insensitive or hurtful. People don;t get fired over hurt feelings in America, especially not hurt “Black” feelings. Black people just aren’t that soft. We can’t afford to be. What we can afford to do is demand a workplace that isn’t hostile to our being treated as more than 3/5…