03049cam a2200397 i 4500 802875722 TxAuBib 20230515120000.0 210601s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021024775 9781619028258 paperback 1619028255 paperback (OCoLC)1255520608 TxAuBib rda Savoy, Lauret E., author. Trace [BOOK PAPERBACK] : Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape / Lauret E Savoy ; with a new preface by the author. Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, [2021] xix, 225 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface: Second Breath -- Prologue: Thoughts on a Frozen Pond -- The View from Point Sublime -- Provenance Notes -- Alien Land Ethic : the distance between -- Madeline Traces -- What's in a Name -- Properties of Desire -- Migrating in a bordered land -- Placing Washington, DC, after the Inauguration -- Epilogue: At Crowsnest Pass. "Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. 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. In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Savoy explores how the country's still unfolding history, and ideas of 'race, ' have marked her and the land. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from 'Indian Territory' and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons"-- Provided by publisher. 20230515. Savoy, Lauret E Travel United States. United States Description and travel. United States History Philosophy. United States Race relations History. United States Social conditions. Public history United States. Memory Social aspects United States. Landscapes Social aspects United States. Nonfiction. TXPOT