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White Supremacy, Monuments, and Memory

White Supremacy, Monuments, and Memory

February 13, 2018 | No Comments

    This presentation was given during a panel discussion, “White Supremacy, Monuments, and Memory,” held at the University of Arizona on August 30. Dr. Katie Hemphill discussed the construction of Confederate monuments in the South from 1890-1920, and Dr. Susan Crane discussed the role of monuments in society.   I was born and raised in Texas, a state that has the second-largest number of Confederate monuments in the United States. Until recently, 178 Confederate monuments could be found in Texas, second only to the Virginia’s 223. Reminders of the Confederate past have been part of my life since birth
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Remembering Juneteenth and Rethinking Emancipation

Remembering Juneteenth and Rethinking Emancipation

June 19, 2017 | 3 Comments

  On a summer day in 1872, a group of people only seven years removed from bondage gathered to commemorate their freedom. The former slaves met on a ten-acre parcel of land at the corner of Dowling and Elgin streets in an area of Houston called Third Ward. According to one resident, the neighborhood looked “very much like the country” despite being part of the city of Houston. Third Ward was the kind of place where most families raised chickens, or even a cow if they were lucky, where the mud-filled roads trapped horse-drawn buggies in the aftermath of thunderstorms
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