Ancestral Structures on the Trailing Edge – Lauret E. Savoy

Histories are enduring presences. No matter how deeply they are
buried, they remain. In this week’s narrated essay, author Lauret
E. Savoy meditates on the history of the Chesapeake region and the
vestiges of collision and rupture that continue to mark its
physical and cultural terrains. Surfacing ancient geological
movements alongside the deliberate construction of race in colonial
America, she considers the entwinement of tectonic and human
histories—the ancestral structures that remain in plain sight and
out of view. Read this essay on our website. Explore more
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