amc tierra y libertad "transcending historical trauma: black/land project"
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Transcending Historical Trauma a presentation at the 2013 Applied Media Conference
Land Based Historical Trauma:
Southern sharecropping
Land Based Historical Trauma:
Sundown Towns, such as Grosse Pointe, MI
Land Based Historical Trauma :1967 Detroit Riots
Photo by Alvin Quinn, AP
Land Based Historical Trauma:Post-industrial economic and
political disinvestmentFlint, MI
Black/Land Project Theory of Change Narratives can do three things:
Increase Autonomy
Increase Authority
Increase Agency
Our work is grounded in Deci & Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory
Autonomy Authority/ Competence
Agency/ Relatedness
Engage on their own terms in conversations about land use, environmental justice, sustainable economic prosperity, democratic civic engagement and relationship to place.
Acknowledge and transcend effects of historical trauma on relationships to land, place and community.
Offer authentic cultural models for regeneration of land, reinvestment in place and cultivating resilience as resistance to oppression.
Artists Reframing Land-Based Trauma in Detroit:Intergenerational interview
Betty Evans, Monica Blaire White, Vera Smith
Hallmarks of Historical Trauma
Survivor guilt
Fixation on past trauma
Hypervigilance about repeated exploitation
Loyalty to ancestral suffering
Transcending Historical Trauma
Confront the Trauma
Reframe the Trauma
Take action that is not in response to the trauma
Transcending Historical Trauma :Reframing agriculture as practice of African heritage
Transcending Historical Trauma :
Confronting historical traumaand taking action through kinship basedland ownership
Walter L. Whidbee, Sr.Flint, MI
Transcending Historical Trauma :Mr. Whidbee’s block
Damon Street, Flint, MI
