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Andrea Roberts, Valentina Aduen, Jennifer Blanks, Schuyler Carter, Kendall Girault. “Digital Juneteenth: Territorializing the Freedom Colony Diaspora.” Public Culture 1 September 2022; 34 (3 (98)): 419–436. *

Roberts, A. & Butler, M. L. (2022). “Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women’s Emotional Geographies.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-10. *

Melnick, R. Z., Roberts, A., & McGilvray, J. (2021). Integrity as Process and Feature: Cultural Landscapes of Underrepresented Communities. Change Over Time, 10(2), 122-140. *

Andrea Roberts (2020). “Preservation without Representation: Making CLG Programs Vehicles for Inclusive Leadership, Historic Preservation, and Engagement”

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Andrea Roberts (2020). “The End of Bootstraps and Good Masters: Fostering Social Inclusion through Counternarrative Creation”

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A. Roberts & M. Matos (2020). “Adaptive liminality: Bridging and bonding social capital between urban and rural Black meccas”

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Andrea Roberts (2020). Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas’ Freedom Colonies

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Andrea Roberts (2019). “Until the Lord Come Get Me, It Burn Down, Or the Next Storm Blow It Away”: The Aesthetics of Freedom in African American Vernacular Homestead Preservation

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A. Roberts, & M. J. Biazar (2018). “Black Placemaking in Texas: Sonic and Social Histories of Newton and Jasper County Freedom Colonies”

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A. Roberts & G. Kelly (2018). “Remixing as Praxis: Arnstein’s Ladder through the Grassroots Preservationist’s Lens”

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Andrea Roberts (2018). “Interpretations & Imaginaries: Toward an Instrumental Black Planning History”
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Andrea Roberts (2018). “Performance as place preservation: The role of storytelling in the formation of Shankleville Community’s Black counterpublics”

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Jennifer Minner, Andrea Roberts, Michael Holleran & Joshua Conrad (2018). “A Smart City Remembers its Past: Citizens as Sensors in Survey and Mapping of Historic Places”

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Andrea Roberts (2017). “The Farmers’ Improvement Society and the Women’s Barnyard Auxiliary of Texas: African American Community Building in the Progressive Era.”

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NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: ESSAYS, OPINION, FEATURE

Andrea Roberts (2018). “A city in Texas discovered a mass grave of prison laborers. So what should it do with the bodies?”

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Andrea Roberts (2018). THE TEXAS FREEDOM COLONIES PROJECT ATLAS & STUDY.

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Andrea Roberts (2017). “When Does It Become Social Justice? Thoughts on Intersectional Preservation Practice”

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Andrea Roberts (2017). “Documenting and Preserving Texas Freedom Colonies”

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Andrea Roberts (2017). “Homeplace: Identity, Place, and Planning”. Reading List
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CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Andrea Roberts (2018). “Arrivals: 1930, 1964” from What’s the New News, Issue 1

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Andrea Roberts (2018). “The Poetics of Black Imagination” from What’s the New News, Issue 2

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Andrea Roberts (2017). “Old Developments: Sovereign Spaces Reclaimed”

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Andrea Roberts (2015). “Sacred Forest, Piney Veil: Black Landscapes of Deep Texas”

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Andrea Roberts (2015). “Critical Sankofa Planning-Mobilizing Texas Freedom Colony Memories”

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