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Street by Street, Block by Block: How Urban Renewal Uprooted Black Roanoke
This groundbreaking special section of the Roanoke Times presented the city's history of urban renewal. AUTHOR: Mary Bishop. PUBLISHED:...
Serial Forced Displacement in American Cities, 1916–2010
This paper describes the recurrent upheaval that has undermined stability of African American communities over a 100 year period. AUTHOR:...
Root Shock: The Consequences of African American Dispossession
This paper presents Mindy Fullilove's concept of "root shock," based on the lifestory of David Jenkins and Mary Bishop's reporting on...
Root Shock : Comic Book
This comic book based on the essay Root Shock: The Consequences of African American Dispossession and adapted/illustrated by Michelle...
'Root Shock': Urban Renewal and Black Neighborhoods on National Public Radio
NPR's Tavis Smiley has a conversation with Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove about her book Root Shock, which explores urban renewal programs...
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