9781619028258-1619028255-Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

ISBN-13: 9781619028258
ISBN-10: 1619028255
Edition: First Trade Paper
Author: Lauret Savoy
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Counterpoint
Format: Paperback 240 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781619028258
ISBN-10: 1619028255
Edition: First Trade Paper
Author: Lauret Savoy
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Counterpoint
Format: Paperback 240 pages

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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (ISBN-13: 9781619028258 and ISBN-10: 1619028255), written by authors Lauret Savoy, was published by Counterpoint in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Native American (Americas History, State & Local, United States History, Slavery & Emancipation, World History, Evolution, Conservation, Nature & Ecology, Human Geography, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Native American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.26.

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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 herpaths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this landlie 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. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories -- natural, personal, cultural -- to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America.

"Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memoryand to be one.

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