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Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas’ Freedom Colonies
(Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas’ Freedom Colonies (Roberts, 2020). Forum Journal, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2020-03-21)
"To validate that a place exists or is worthy of listing as a significant cultural resource, it is the fundamental practice of planning and preservation professionals to establish measurable, documented facts: determining ...
The End of Bootstraps and Good Masters: Fostering Social Inclusion by Creating Counternarratives
(Columbia University Press, 2020-03)
"And Andrea Roberts explains how the Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas, another online mapping tool, serves as a platform for collaborators to collect and store data about Black settlements. But as Roberts asserts, rendering ...
Documenting and Preserving Texas Freedom Colonies
(Texas Heritage, 2017)
Often a destination at the end of an isolated dirt road, though some-times found in urban locations, Freedom Colonies are hidden African-American cultural legacies. These endangered communities are in need of greater ...
The contribution of mangrove expansion to salt marsh loss on the Texas Gulf coast
(PLOS, 2015-05-06)
Landscape-level shifts in plant species distribution and abundance can fundamentally change the ecology of an ecosystem. Such shifts are occurring within mangrove-marsh ecotones, where over the last few decades, relatively ...
The Fifth Street Neighborhood Plan & Market Study A Report on the Fifth Street Planning Process for Fort Bend County, Texas
(Center for Sustianable Development, University of Texas at Austin, College of Architecture, 2014-02)
"Until the Lord Come Get Me, It Burn Down, Or the Next Storm Blow It Away": The Aesthetics of Freedom in African American Vernacular Homestead Preservation
(Buildings and Landscapes, 2019-12-15)
Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander's We Shall Independent Be (2008), which contemplated the relationship between American ideals such as freedom and black space creation, advanced the validity of vernacular African ...
TX Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements & Cemeteries
(2022-02-25)
“The Texas Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements&
Cemeteries” (the Grant) funded through the Trust provided $50,000 to support engagement, mobile
cemetery identification and ...
County-Level Projections of Medicaid Expansion's Impact in Texas
(Episcopal Health Foundation, 2020-09-14)
Texas is one of twelve states nationwide that has not expanded Medicaid, despite the largest number of uninsured residents in the country. One commonly cited reason is the budgetary implications of a large increase in ...