...This introduction begins with the destruction of Emmett Till’s face and reclamation of his flesh, laid bare without the appearance of age, to illustrate a major premise of this book: Black age is the prism through which the abuses of liberal humanist dispossession, as well as black cultural...

...Drawing on the author’s own experiences growing up in Chicago, the introduction provides background on redevelopment initiatives within Black and Mexican communities in the city. It outlines different approaches to redevelopment that have continued histories of dispossession for communities...

...This chapter examines the mediated life of the Ghost Dance, a pan-tribal religious movement that emerged in the 1880s in the context of U.S. colonial expansion, genocide, and dispossession. Spectacularly suppressed at the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890, the Ghost Dance proliferated in turn...

... schools and fight dispossession. These non-institutionalized organizations—which operate without clear meeting spaces or 501(c) 3 status—engineer new modes of information sharing, attempt to take back community institutions beyond the school, and organize to harness the power of the vote. This chapter...

... to, past configurations of property and belonging. It also reflects on intergenerational addiction as a modality of connection and continuity, but one that is entangled with experiences of cultural dispossession and loss. García Angela “Hispano ” querencia acequia madre sangrías Kosek Jack Treaty...

... in Northeast LA also generates social violence expressing capitalism’s tendency to foster “accumulation by dispossession” that has been countered by neighborhood “right to the city” movements. I examine the rise of the urban social movements like Friends of Highland Park and Northeast LA Alliance that advocate...