Keywords
public history, history of Portland, Oregon, public culture during COVID-19, walking tours, urban planning, housing policy
Abstract
A walking tour of downtown Portland in August 2021 raises questions for the writer about the purpose of “memory activism,” its relation to writing-as-activism. Drawing on critiques of urbanist Jane Jacobs and interrogating the concept of “reckoning,” the essay explores ways in which the streetscape and people there can deliver meaning and pose questions about systemic racism and unsheltered existence.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/38083
DOI
10.15760/amplify.2022.1.1.3
Recommended Citation
Dougher, Sarah E.
(2022)
"Public History is NOW,"
Amplify: A Journal of Writing-as-Activism:
Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
https://doi.org/10.15760/amplify.2022.1.1.3
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