Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Savoy LauretPaperback
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Savoy LauretPaperback Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America's still…
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Savoy LauretPaperback
Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America's still unfolding history and ideas of "race" have marked its people and the land.Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss.
As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her--paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land--lie largely eroded and lost.A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from
Film, History and Memory
British and American History