{"product_id":"a-peoples-guide-to-richmond-and-central-virginia-volume-6-paperback","title":"A People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia: Volume 6 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelissa Dawn Ooten\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJason Michael Sawyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKim Lee Schmidt\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn expansive guide for resistance and solidarity across this storied region.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Richmond and Central Virginia are a historic epicenter of America's racialized history. This alternative guidebook foregrounds diverse communities in the region who are mobilizing to dismantle oppressive systems and fundamentally transforming the space to live and thrive. Featuring personal reflections from activists, artists, and community leaders, this book eschews colonial monuments and confederate memorials to instead highlight movements, neighborhoods, landmarks, and gathering spaces that shape social justice struggles across the history of this rapidly growing area. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The sites, stories, and events featured here reveal how community resistance and resilience remain firmly embedded in the region's landscape. \u003ci\u003eA People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia \u003c\/i\u003ecounters the narrative that elites make history worth knowing, and sites worth visiting, by demonstrating how ordinary people come together to create more equitable futures.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA People's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e to Richmond and Central Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e centers landscapes in narratives generated by public memory and movement of African Americans and other racial and oppressed groups. It provides the reader with rich perspectives that add meaning and texture to lived spaces. These narratives are as American as apple pie. I recommend this text as a major or supplemental book in the social sciences and Virginia history courses. Although cities often use the term 'unique charm' to attract the wealthy, this People's Guide exposes the uniqueness of charm in predicable patterns of whiteness. Yet, the authors' resolve through research to guide people to read more intently about these landscapes and narratives, which shape the complexity of landscapes today, is timely given the assault on African American history and culture. With this guide, one will travel well.--Colita Nichols Fairfax, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe African Experience in Colonial Virginia: Essays on the 1619 Arrival and the Legacy of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This manuscript is by far the most exhaustive and comprehensive review of the complex and complicated history of Richmond and Virginia that I have seen or experienced. It is clear from the writing that Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer are deeply invested in truth-telling, and are knowledgeable of the issues that continue to plague this region. What I particularly appreciate is their concerted effort to include the voices of community members, activists, and people living in the midsts of these times still plagued and very much in the shadows of centuries of oppression, divisions, neglect, ignorance, and many atrocities, while remaining hopeful that change is possible and continues to take place in this region due to the tireless efforts of hundreds of people committed to making change a reality. This is a must read for all Richmonders, and for those ignorant of the facts of our American history yet willing to learn and work for change in the big ways that are necessary in this society we call our home.\"--Cheryl Groce-Wright, Founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope Collaborative\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Ooten\u003c\/b\u003e directs a social justice leadership program and teaches in Women, Gender \u0026amp; Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Sawyer\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Human Services at Old Dominion University. His work centers community organizing, arts education, and transformative social justice work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460748361906,"sku":"9780520344167","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/2bd5fdd372fe8ae9836c4d6345824e7f.webp?v=1778931176","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/a-peoples-guide-to-richmond-and-central-virginia-volume-6-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}