Part IV of “The New Frontier” asks how renaming initiatives advanced by the Trump Administration on federal lands may serve as the symbolic front for a billionaire-backed effort to reopen these territories to extraction, industrial development, and urbanization.
Read PostA struggle over history and racial injustice is unfolding on the terrain of monuments, museums, school curricula, and maps. While authoritarians and oligarchs move to remake the commemorative landscape in their image and interests, communities are pushing back—rising to reclaim and rename the ancestral, cultural, and political geographies they call home. WORDS ARE MONUMENTS is … Read more
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