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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”
Andrea Roberts (2020). “The End of Bootstraps and Good Masters: Fostering Social Inclusion through Counternarrative Creation”
A. Roberts & M. Matos (2020). “Adaptive liminality: Bridging and bonding social capital between urban and rural Black meccas”
Andrea Roberts (2020). Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas’ Freedom Colonies
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
A. Roberts, & M. J. Biazar (2018). “Black Placemaking in Texas: Sonic and Social Histories of Newton and Jasper County Freedom Colonies”
A. Roberts & G. Kelly (2018). “Remixing as Praxis: Arnstein’s Ladder through the Grassroots Preservationist’s Lens”
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”
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”
Andrea Roberts (2017). “The Farmers’ Improvement Society and the Women’s Barnyard Auxiliary of Texas: African American Community Building in the Progressive Era.”
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?”
Andrea Roberts (2018). THE TEXAS FREEDOM COLONIES PROJECT ATLAS & STUDY.
Andrea Roberts (2017). “When Does It Become Social Justice? Thoughts on Intersectional Preservation Practice”
Andrea Roberts (2017). “Documenting and Preserving Texas Freedom Colonies”
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
Andrea Roberts (2018). “The Poetics of Black Imagination” from What’s the New News, Issue 2
Andrea Roberts (2017). “Old Developments: Sovereign Spaces Reclaimed”
Andrea Roberts (2015). “Sacred Forest, Piney Veil: Black Landscapes of Deep Texas”
Andrea Roberts (2015). “Critical Sankofa Planning-Mobilizing Texas Freedom Colony Memories”