Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V, presents Lauret Savoy to discuss her new book Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape.
A professor of environmental studies and geology at Mount Holyoke, Savoy is the author of books including The Colors of Nature and Bedrock. In her newest study of the intersection of natural and cultural histories, Savoy combines her professional interests with her personal background as someone of Native American, slave, and free-black heritage to look at landscapes ranging from the San Andreas Fault to the Carolinas to burial grounds, demonstrating how ideas of race mark both geographies and peoples.
