Lecture Series Presented by The Department of Communication & Journalism

KeyNote Lecture - Dr. Catherine Squires, The University of Minnesota

Dr. Squires will present research on how the system of serial racial displacements of Black communities since the 1600s echoes the larger structural violence of settler colonialism'sdrive to undermine  Intdigenous relationships to place.  Following the work of Katherine McKittrick, Eve Tuck and others, she situates the HQB Archive project as a means whereby Black people use memory and postmemory strategies to "remain in place" in the Rondo neighborhood, resisting the efforts of white settlerism to render Black people place-less and easily removable off of the colonial/gentrified map of St. Paul.  "We are called by place toresist in ways that do not require Black people to prioritize capitalist frameworks ownership of place, but relationship to the spirit of care and community belonging experienced in the place we remember/feel as Rondo."