womanism – ANDREA ROBERTS

Articles & Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/SCHOLARSHIP (* denotes students) Forthcoming 2026-27 Book Roberts, A. Never Sell the Land! Freedom Colonies, Black Storytelling, and Keeping Home. In copy editing, the University of Texas Press (2026). Book Book Chapter Roberts, A. “The Black Parti: Reinterpreting African American Placemaking as Design Ideation,” Rewriting American Architecture, Edited by Charles L. Davis II, Kathryn…

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.…