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. The resource library includes reading, podcasts, webinar archives, and other media exploring key concepts related to reparative spatial justice.
— Rasheedah Phillips and Tina Grandinetti"We cannot truly achieve equity without repair."
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Realizing Spatial Reparations episode
Angela Glover Blackwell talks to PolicyLink Housing Director Rasheedah Phillips about how time can be created, reclaimed, resourced, and redeemed; and the ways that we, collectively, must operate from a place of temporal abundance versus temporal scarcity.
Readings
- 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.
- 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.
- Afro-Indigenous Relations in a Reimagined Future, KYLE T. MAYS Essay Afro-Indigenous Relations in a Reimagined Future
- Envisioning Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty by Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke)
- An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays (2022)
- “Touching the Earth” by bell hooks
- Our Sacred Waters: Theorizing Kuuyamas a Decolonial Possibility by Charles Sepulveda
- Home-Free and Nothing (...)-Less: A Queer Cosmology of Aloha ‘Āina” 11, no. 1 (n.d.). https://kamehamehapublishing.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2020/09/Hulili_Vol11_1.pdf
- 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 Back Means Protecting Black and Indigenous Trans Women.” (2020) by jaye simpson https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/land-back-means-protecting-black-and-indigenous-trans-women.
- “How Returning Land Can Build Power and Advance Healing Justice - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly.” Nonprofit Quarterly, (December 12, 2023) By Bransford, Donna, and Jocelyn Wong https://nonprofitquarterly.org/how-returning-land-can-build-power-and-advance-healing-justice/.
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation Journal of Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education, & Society, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2014
- Margaret Marietta Ramírez (2020) Take the houses back/take the land back: Black and Indigenous urban futures in Oakland, Urban Geography, 41:5, 682-693
- 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/
- “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)
- Community Ownership and Self-Determination: Case Studies from Atlanta, Boston, Lisjan Territory, and New Orleans by Rebecca Marx, Brett Theodos, Tené Traylor (May 29, 2025)
- 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/.
- The Texas Freedom Colonies Project
- The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King
- Dreaming Futures Black and Indigenous Solidarity in Phoenix Report by a coalition stewarded by LISC Phoenix
- The Impact of Braiding Narratives of Reparations and Land Back on Black and Indigenous Audiences by BLIS Collective
- 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