Geographies of Black Displacement Walking Tour

Join us for the Geographies of Black Displacement walking tour as part of the fall series of events.

As a walking discourse, the tour will examine the violent formation of New Orleans as a carceral landscape and colonial enterprise marked by taking, extraction, enslavement, settlement, and conquest. The tour analyzes historical and contemporary practices of architectural violence; residential confinement; technologies of racial management, surveillance, and extraction; discriminatory housing patterns; and policies that make people disappear.

We will begin in the French Quarter and then move through Bienville Basin (formerly the Iberville Public Housing Development and site of Storyville), where the tour will end.

The walking tour includes printed materials (a 16-page timeline, zine, maps, and related ephemera) and will last approximately 1.5 hours.

Participants are encouraged to:

• Wear comfortable walking shoes
• Bring a water bottle to stay hydrated
• Bring a camera to take photos or use your phone camera
• Ask questions
• Have fun as we learn together

This walking discourse is led by feminist scholar, activist, and artist Shana M. griffin, and organized by PUNCTUATE's Displaced Project and Gulf South Open School.

Host or Publisher Shana M. griffin/DISPLACED Project