Tear It All Down: Highways as Racist Monuments
Publication Date
9-24-2020
Document Type
Article
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Sturm College of Law
Keywords
White supremacy, Segregation, Highways, Race
Abstract
In recent months, citizens and elected officials around the country have been tearing down or ordering the removal of monuments that symbolize white supremacy and subjugation. While many of the targeted monuments are statues of people who supported or espoused racist ideologies, another set of more innocuous monuments to racial segregation still stand: America’s Highways.
In her forthcoming article, “White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes”: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction, Professor Deborah N. Archer examines the way that the U.S. highway system served as a tool of segregation, both destroying and isolating Black communities.
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Sarah Schindler, Tear It All Down: Highways as Racist Monuments, Jotwell (Sept. 24, 2020), https://property.jotwell.com/tear-it-all-down-highways-as-racist-monuments/.