Landscape Interventions
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Keywords: landscape. racial formation, intervention, racial project
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Richard H. Schein, University of Kentucky
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This paper is grounded in the place of landscape as a racial project that is foundational to racial formations in the United States. As such, the landscape often is portrayed for its overdetermined role in assembling white hegemony and enabling racist practice, especially through policy making, state activity, and collective action. Omi and Winant remind us, however, that “racial projects occur at varying scales” including “at the level of everyday experience and personal interaction” (2015, 3rd edition, p. 125). This paper explores that tension, with a focus on anti-racist interventions and following the admonition of Black Geographies to pay attention to the manner in which people not only resist, but claim their own lives in place. Examples are presented from a work in progress (Racialized Landscapes) and will comprise quotidian practices such as historic preservation, public memory and commemoration, and place-claiming through local and oral history and story telling.
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