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it's pronounced A-lee-sa racism, space and capitalisms in the US assistant professor of planning at UB
Jan 9, 2019 28 tweets 6 min read
Posting some findings from a great class with K. Ian Grandison I took this fall at UVA called Race in American Places, h/t @CarisAdel for doing this and inspiring me to share too! This paper starts with two weird things I found in Charlottesville’s commemorative landscape. First, this monument from 1901 up at Monticello near the bus parking lot. I’ve always wondered... Jefferson who enslaved hundreds of people as “the greatest advocate of human liberty”?!