The paradox that is our nation’s capital struck me as from a blow on January 20, 2009. That day nearly two million people gathered to witness Senator Barack Obama become the forty-fourth president of the United States, the first African American in this office. My...
Dear Reader, Welcome to the website for Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Land. I am eager to tell you about my new book. Sand and stone may be Earth’s memory, yet each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory. My skin,...
On October 10th I will have the honor of presenting the keynote address for the Sixth Annual Women and Girls in Georgia Conference, sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. The theme of this year's conference is sustainability, and so...
I am eager to tell you about my new book, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape , which Counterpoint Press will release on November 10, 2015. In a mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Trace explores how the...
U.S. Place Names Tell You Who's in Power The highest peak in North America now has a new old name. Following decades-long efforts by Alaska lawmakers, and a recent order by the secretary of the interior, President Obama has restored Mount McKinley to Denali, its traditional Koyukon...
This is a website of traces and tracing, of finding voice. Welcome. Edges and hybridity shape my identity as an African American woman of mixed ancestry. Tracing memory threads my work and life: unearthing what is buried, re-membering—piecing together—what is fragmented, shattered, eroded. For me this...