I have no words. From Campus Reform:
University of San Diego professors Diane Marie Keeling and Bethany O’Shea published a study titled “Conceptualizing Black Humanity Through Geopoetic Intimacy and Resistance: Memory Making-with Geologic Materials” on Jan. 27.“Materials of geologic composition like soil, and those made from earth materials, such as steel and bricks, are employed to trope the bodies of lynching victims and weather racist geologic formations of subjecthood,” the study abstract reads. “The holding and eroding of violent memories crafts an intimate and resistant geopoetics of Black humanity.”Keeling and O’Shea, professors of Communication and Environmental and Ocean Sciences respectively, spoke about their study in an interview with the University of San Diego News Center that was published on Tuesday.They explained that their research examined racism in U.S. history and focused on “how people can use rocks to heal from this horrible history.”The authors traveled to Birmingham, Alabama to see soil that was gathered from different states that saw lynching attacks throughout American history. They went to “view the soil collection and learned many other ways that geology was strategically used in the memorialization of lynching victims.”
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