Reparative Spatial Justice is an expansive framework and set of strategies that reckon with, repair, and transform the harms of racist land and housing policies. This resource library is an archive of readings exploring key concepts related to reparative spatial justice.
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Reparations and Reparative Justice
- John Powell, “Beyond Equity: Targeted Universalism and the Closing of the Racial Wealth Gap,” Nonprofit Quarterly, Jan 19, 2022.
- Matt Bruenig, “The Reparations Puzzle,” Jacobin, Oct 18, 2017.
- Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, “Reconsidering Reparations” (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- Nik Heynen and Nikki Luke, “How Cities Are Experimenting With Reparations in Urban Policy,” Next City, October 9, 2023.
Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms
- Imaginary Worlds podcast episode “Indigenous Futurisms” with Grace Dillon
- Rasheedah Phillips, “Race Against Time: Afrofuturism and Our Liberated Housing Futures,” Critical Analysis of Law 9, no. 1 (Mar 2022): 16–34.
- Margaret Marietta Ramírez, “Take the Houses Back/Take the Land Back: Black and Indigenous Urban Futures in Oakland,” Urban Geography 41, no. 5 (May 27, 2020): 682–93.
Property
- Cheryl I. Harris, “Whiteness as Property,” Harvard Law Review 106, no. 8 (June 1993).
- Aileen Moreton-Robinson, “The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty” (Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2015).
- Robert Nichols, Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2020).
Land Justice
- Danielle M Purifoy and Louise Seamster, “Creative Extraction: Black Towns in White Space,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 47–66.
- Nikki Pieratos and Krystal Two Bulls, “Land Back: A Necessary Act of Reparations - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly,” Nonprofit Quarterly, October 11, 2021.
- The Red Nation, “The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth,” Progressive International (blog), August 4, 2021.
- Pennelys Droz, “Indigenous and Black Communities Find Common Cause for Land Justice,” YES! Magazine (blog), November 22, 2022.
- “Landback On The Ground” (Philadelphia, PA: Next City, 2023), .
- Leah Penniman, “By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and
- Ourselves,” YES! Magazine (blog), accessed November 14, 2023.’’
- Anna V. Smith, “The State of Tribal Co-Management of Public Lands,” Country News, September 22, 2023.
- “Redress Policy Toolbox,” The Redress Movement (blog), 2024,
- Revitalizing the hood with urban agriculture: Duron Chavis at TEDxRVA
- Adaptive liminality: Bridging and bonding social capital between urban and rural Black meccas by Andrea Roberts and Melina Matos
- Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women’s Emotional Geographies by Andrea Roberts and Maia L. Butler
- Ka Lei o ka Lanakila: Grasping Victory at Maunakea
- https://www.ncel.net/articles/policy-pathways-to-land-back/
Housing Justice
- “How One Boston Neighborhood Stopped Gentrification in Its Tracks” YES! Magazine (blog), accessed March 22, 2024.
- Community Land Trusts in the Age of Climate Change
- Oscar Perry Abello, “Louisville’s Black Neighborhoods Want To End Publicly-Funded Displacement,” Next City, August 8, 2023.
- Under One Roof: Building an Abolitionist Approach to Housing Justice by Sophie House and Krystle Okafor (Sept/Oct 2020 P&R Issue)
Reparative Planning
- Philip L. Walker and FAICP, “A Community-Powered Plan for Cultural Preservation,” American Planning Association, October 14, 2021.
- Deshonay Dozier, “A Response to Abolitionist Planning: There Is No Room for ‘Planners’ in the Movement for Abolition,” Planners Network (blog), August 9, 2018, https://www.plannersnetwork.org/2018/08/response-to-abolitionist-planning/.
Narrative
- Trevor Smith, “There Are New Suns: Building a Transformative Narrative for the Black Reparations Movement,” Liberation Ventures, 2022.
- Rachel Weidinger, “Narrative Organizing: How We Shift Power to Justice,” Narrative Initiative (blog), October 6, 2021.
- Luis Ortega, “Crafting Anti-Racist Narratives for Community Development,” The People’s Practice