Erasure by Design Book Launch

Join us in launching V. Mitch McEwen's new book: Erasure by Design: Racial Protocols of Displacement, Demolition, and Extraction. Tracking the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the work of displacement, demolition, and extraction into the present day, McEwen's book asks: How has erasure formed the space around us? How do we come to know it, so that we can design differently? For the occasion, McEwen will be joined by writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts to explore these questions and beyond.

More about the book:

This book travels back and forth in time through scenes of erasure at three primary locations—Southwest, Washington DC (displacement); North St Louis (demolition), and South Los Angeles (extraction). Erasure by Design shares first person narratives of growing up in the wake of slum clearance—that is, "urban renewal"—in Southwest, Washington DC, while assembling archival references that narrate racialized erasure and its legal and spatial precedents.…