Tear It All Down: Highways as Racist Monuments

Authors

Sarah Schindler, University of DenverFollow

Publication Date

9-24-2020

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

Sturm College of Law

Keywords

Interstate highways, Segregation

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.

Publication Statement

Originally published as Sarah B. 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/ (reviewing Deborah N. Archer, “White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes”: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction, 73 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 1259 (2020)).

Rights Holder

Sarah Schindler

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

2 pgs

File Size

56 KB

Publication Title

Vanderbilt Law Review

Volume

73

First Page

1

Last Page

2

Recommended Citation

Sarah B. 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/ (reviewing Deborah N. Archer, “White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes”: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction, 73 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 1259 (2020)).