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''Get Your Asphalt Off My Ancestors!'': Reclaiming Richmond's African Burial Ground, Mai-Linh Hong
''Get Your Asphalt Off My Ancestors!'': Reclaiming Richmond's African Burial Ground, Mai-Linh Hong
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By treating spatial conflict as one way communities wrestle with the memory and legacy of slavery, this article unites critical landscape analysis, a tool of legal geography, with legal and cultural analysis and recent scholarship on African American reparations. A slave cemetery lay beneath a parking lot in Shockoe Bottom, a neighborhood of downtown Richmond that was once a major slave-trading hub. In recent years, controversy arose over the site’s use, generating racially charged local debate and two failed lawsuits seeking to preserve the site. This article examines the significance of the African Burial Ground controversy by analyzing its symbolic, …
Ada Mesh Cities: Network, Space And Memory In The Transitional City, Zita Joyce, Susan (Su) Ballard, Caroline Mccaw, Vicki Smith, Trudy Lane, Ian Clothier, Janine Randerson, Danny Butt
Ada Mesh Cities: Network, Space And Memory In The Transitional City, Zita Joyce, Susan (Su) Ballard, Caroline Mccaw, Vicki Smith, Trudy Lane, Ian Clothier, Janine Randerson, Danny Butt
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In the aftermath of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, Christchurch, New Zealand is framed as a 'transitional' city, moving from its demolished past to a speculative future. The ADA Mesh Cities project asks what role media art and networks may play in the transitional city, and the practices of remembering, and reimagining space.