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The Resource Trace : memory, history, race, and the American landscape, Lauret Edith Savoy

Trace : memory, history, race, and the American landscape, Lauret Edith Savoy

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"Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her--paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land--lie largely eroded and lost. In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Savoy explores how the country's still unfolding history, and ideas of 'race, ' have marked her and the land. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from 'Indian Territory' and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons"--
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
225 pages
Contents
  • Prologue: Thoughts on a Frozen Pond
  • The View from Point Sublime
  • Provenance Notes
  • Alien Land Ethic : the distance between
  • Madeline tracing
  • What's in a Name
  • Properties of Desire
  • Migrating in a bordered land
  • Placing Washington, DC, after the Inauguration
  • Epilogue: At Crowsnest Pass
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9781619025738
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Trace : memory, history, race, and the American landscape
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Trace
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memory, history, race, and the American landscape
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Lauret Edith Savoy
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Language
eng
Summary
"Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her--paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land--lie largely eroded and lost. In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Savoy explores how the country's still unfolding history, and ideas of 'race, ' have marked her and the land. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from 'Indian Territory' and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons"--
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Savoy, Lauret E
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  • Savoy, Lauret E.
  • Savoy, Lauret E
  • United States
  • United States
  • Public history
  • United States
  • Memory
  • Landscapes
  • United States
  • États-Unis
  • Histoire appliquée
  • États-Unis
  • Paysages
  • États-Unis
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Landscapes
  • Memory
  • Philosophy
  • Public history
  • Race relations
  • Social conditions
  • Travel
  • United States
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Trace : memory, history, race, and the American landscape, Lauret Edith Savoy
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-213) and index
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Contents
Prologue: Thoughts on a Frozen Pond -- The View from Point Sublime -- Provenance Notes -- Alien Land Ethic : the distance between -- Madeline tracing -- What's in a Name -- Properties of Desire -- Migrating in a bordered land -- Placing Washington, DC, after the Inauguration -- Epilogue: At Crowsnest Pass
Control code
903763783
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
225 pages
Isbn
9781619025738
Lccn
2015009588
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651
System control number
(OCoLC)903763783
Label
Trace : memory, history, race, and the American landscape, Lauret Edith Savoy
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-213) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: Thoughts on a Frozen Pond -- The View from Point Sublime -- Provenance Notes -- Alien Land Ethic : the distance between -- Madeline tracing -- What's in a Name -- Properties of Desire -- Migrating in a bordered land -- Placing Washington, DC, after the Inauguration -- Epilogue: At Crowsnest Pass
Control code
903763783
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
225 pages
Isbn
9781619025738
Lccn
2015009588
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651
System control number
(OCoLC)903763783

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