5. Land Based Historical Trauma:
Post-industrial economic and
political disinvestment
Flint, MI
6. Black/Land Project Theory of Change
Narratives can do three things:
Increase
Autonomy
Increase
Authority
Increase
Agency
7. Our work is grounded in Deci & Ryan’s
Self-Determination Theory
Autonomy Authority/
Competence
Agency/
Relatedness
Engage on their own
terms in conversations
about land
use, environmental
justice, sustainable
economic
prosperity, democratic
civic engagement and
relationship to place.
Acknowledge
and transcend
effects of
historical trauma
on relationships
to land, place
and community.
Offer authentic
cultural models
for regeneration
of
land, reinvestmen
t in place and
cultivating
resilience as
resistance to
oppression.
8. Artists Reframing Land-Based Trauma in Detroit:
Intergenerational interview
Betty Evans, Monica Blaire White, Vera Smith
9. Hallmarks of Historical Trauma
Survivor guilt
Fixation on past trauma
Hypervigilance about repeated exploitation
Loyalty to ancestral suffering
12. Transcending Historical Trauma :
Confronting historical trauma
and taking action
through kinship based
land ownership
Walter L. Whidbee, Sr.
Flint, MI
Damon Street, Flint. The Whidbee family’s rehabbed homes
A conversation about Black peoples relationship to land: Opportunity to connect what’s learned from southern land loss with urban land loss – new legal remedies that serve NOLAA conversation about Black peoples relationship to land is an opportunity to Braid together conversation about loss with conversations about growthA conversation about Black peoples relationship to land helps all of us to learn toArticulate the history of broken relationship to land, and integrate it with work that heals that historical traumaFinally, A conversation about Black peoples relationship to landUnleashes knowledge & power held in black communities about how to regenerate healthy relationships between all people, land and communities.