Survivance - Betty Yu - Acts of Remembering

Acts of Remembering

Betty Yu

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The author's grandparents in New York City in the 1950s with the cut-out of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act in the background. Image by Betty Yu, 2020.

Survivance
May 2021










Notes
1

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014, .

2

See: Matthew Green, “How Government Redlining Maps Pushed Segregation in California Cities,” KQED, April 27, 2016, ; Coates, “The Case for Reparations.”

3

Tarry Hum, “Get Ready Sunset Park, ‘Brooklyn’ is Coming”: The Real Estate Imperatives of an Innovation Ecosystem,” Progressive City, July 11, 2017, .

4

See: “Once an Indian village site,” 1950s, Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, ; “Once Indian Village Site” in “WPA Gives Sunset Park Face-Lifting,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 3, 1939, ; “Congress Authorizes Erection of Indian Monument—Bliss Site Suggested” in “Movement Revived to Buy Bliss Estate for Park,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 27, 1911, .