Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-24-2020
Keywords
Interstate highways, Segregation
Organizational Units
Sturm College of Law
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.
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)).
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)).
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