Scholars’ Hub @ Home | Buried Histories: Racial geographies of memory from New York to Toronto

Urban spaces are archives of race, memory, and forgetting. Join us on Feb. 18 at 12 p.m. with Safiyah Rochelle, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science (Criminology), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Professor Rochelle will examine how cities selectively memorialize – or erase – the histories of communities through what I call racial geographies of memory. Drawing on the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan and Toronto’s lost Black neighbourhood, The Ward; this talk explores how public space shapes collective narratives about race, belonging and grievability, and what it means to reclaim buried histories in a political moment of on-going erasure and silencing.