{"id":45245,"date":"2016-01-21T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45245"},"modified":"2016-10-16T21:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T21:15:43","slug":"trace-memory-history-race-and-the-american-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45245","title":{"rendered":"Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Counterpoint Press<\/a>
\n2015-11-10
\n240 pages
\n5.5 x 8.25
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781619025738<\/p>\n

Lauret Savoy<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology
\nMount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

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An environmental historian traces her mixed ancestry by reading both the land and the blistering record of race in America<\/em><\/p>\n

Sand and stone are Earth\u2019s 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\u2019s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her\u2014paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land\u2014lie largely eroded and lost.<\/p>\n

In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Savoy explores how the country\u2019s still unfolding history, and ideas of \u201crace,\u201d have marked her and the land. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault<\/a> zone to a South Carolina<\/a> plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from \u201cIndian Territory<\/a>\u201d and the U.S.-Mexico Border<\/a> to the U.S. capital<\/a>, Trace<\/em> grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Counterpoint Press 2015-11-10 240 pages 5.5 x 8.25 Hardcover ISBN: 9781619025738 Lauret Savoy, Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts An environmental historian traces her mixed ancestry by reading both the land and the blistering record of race in America Sand and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,459,8,17,20],"tags":[22713,22716,22715,22714],"class_list":["post-45245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-counterpoint-press","tag-lauret-e-savoy","tag-lauret-edith-savoy","tag-lauret-savoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45249,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45245\/revisions\/45249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}