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Right to the City: Community-Based Urban Archaeology as Abolitionist Geography (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper sees heritage as a community resource to challenge racist urban planning policies in a historically African American neighborhood of Brooklyn. It examines this case through Ruth Wilson Gilmore's concept of abolitionist geography, which views urban space as an extension of enslavement and confinement. Urban...