Curating Freedom: Making Hidden Black Publics Visible with Descendant Communities

"Curating Freedom: Making Hidden Black Publics Visible with Descendant Communities." - Andrea Roberts, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning (Texas A&M) presenting on "preservation apartheid" (1:08:07) (February 2019).

Dr. Andrea Roberts is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Faculty Fellow with the Center for Heritage Conservation and the Institute for Sustainable Communities at Texas A&M University as well as founder of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, a research and social justice initiative documenting African American's placemaking history and their contemporary planning practices and challenges. Roberts's critical scholarship aims to diversify planning history, expose promising replicable grassroots preservation practices, and amplify minority communities' concerns in policy arenas. She has written about social justice, intersectionality, and historic preservation for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, rural Black women’s placemaking in The Journal of Planning History, and the role of storytelling among grassroots preservationists for the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage.