{"id":49478,"date":"2016-10-16T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49478"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:03:22","slug":"speaker-series-memory-history-race-and-americas-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49478","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Series: Memory, History, Race, and America’s National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker Series: Memory, History, Race, and America’s National Parks<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture<\/a>
\n515 Malcolm X Boulevard
\nNew York, New York 10037
\nTuesday, 2016-10-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As a young girl Lauret Savoy<\/a> developed a deeply personal\u00a0connection to the American land, visiting numerous national\u00a0parks with her parents. But as she traversed the well-worn\u00a0paths of Yellowstone<\/a>, Bryce Canyon<\/a> and Zion<\/a>, she began to\u00a0wonder about the footsteps of her ancestors, and how they\u00a0marked the very land she walked upon. From the Buffalo\u00a0Soldiers<\/a> who safeguarded Yosemite<\/a> and Sequoia<\/a> to the\u00a0painful legacy of Japanese-American internment camps<\/a>,\u00a0national parks hold some of the most important yet muted\u00a0narratives of the American identity.<\/p>\n

In her newest work, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the\u00a0American Landscape<\/em><\/a>, Savoy explores how the country\u2019s still unfolding\u00a0history, and ideas of \u201crace,\u201d mark a person, a people, and\u00a0the land. In distinctive and illuminating prose, she weaves together human stories\u00a0of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons.<\/p>\n

Join Alan Spears<\/a> for a conversation with [National Parks Conservation Association<\/a>] NPCA Trustee Lauret Savoy about her journeys across\u00a0the American Landscape and the oft forgotten stories of the places we cherish and call our\u00a0national parks. She will challenge you to redefine current concepts regarding the meaning of\u00a0public lands and their place in our shared history…<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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