womanism – ANDREA ROBERTS

Articles & Publications

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…

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.…