Charla | Presentación del libro Your Land (2025) de la profesora Keller Easterling, Universidad de Yale.
Viernes 29 de mayo, 12:30 hrs. seguido de un almuerzo junto a los estudiantes de doctorado.
Segundo piso Casa de Doctorado en Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, Campus Lo Contador.
Fondecyt n°1251118
The book project, Your Land, tells the story of land activism growing out of the Civil Rights Movement.
Black land ownership in the US dropped from 15 million acres in 1910 to 3 million acres in 1970. In the 1960s, some activists who traveled to the South to fight for civil rights but remained to expose forms of land theft and support the Black economy by reviving traditions of mutualism and cooperation. Convening and reconvening in relays across the decades, the movement gravitated to places already weighted with these traditions in the Black Belt South—the crescent shape swath of fertile land stretching from Virginia to Texas where many Blacks settled after the Civil War. Activists developed special land-holding organs, multi-state cooperative networks, advocacies, and robust Black institutions to manage those resources.
To convey this history of land activism, the book looks at almost 100 days between 1961 and the present—days filled with details of people and places that might cumulatively build and deepen to occupy a place at the forefront of cultural memory.
Keller Easterling is an architect, writer, and tenured professor of architecture at Yale University. She began her studies at Princeton University and received classes in architecture and history at Parsons New School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University. Another book, Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World (Verso, 2021), reverses the emphasis on object and figure to foster innovative thinking about both spatial and non-spatial issues.