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Contaminated Representations

Anita Bakshi

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A studio site visit to Ringwood. The project partner Dr. Chuck Stead uses a map to explain topography and environmental conditions to students. 

The Settler Colonial Present
October 2020










Notes
1

Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Canada: Anchor Canada, 2012), 30.

2

Ibid., 66.

3

Ibid., 69.

4

Ibid., 78.

5

Erica Doss, Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 363.

6

Ibid.

7

Anita Bakshi “Responding to Emotional Aspects of Environmental Loss: Implications for Landscape Architecture Theory and Practice,” Landscape Research Record 7 (2018): 49–59.

8

Diane Harris, Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), 31.

9

The Record Staff, Toxic Legacy: Making a Wasteland (Bergen County: The Record, 2011).

10

Maro Chermayeff and Micah Fink, Mann v. Ford (New York: HBO Documentary Films, 2010), DVD.

11

Elizabeth Hoover, The River is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), 116.

12

“Settlement will provide nearly $21 Million for Cleanup at the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund Site in New Jersey,” United States Environmental Protection Agency, May 5, 2019, .

13

Hoover, The River is in Us.

14

Stuart G. Harris and Barbara L. Harper, “A Native American Exposure Scenario,” Risk Analysis 17, no. 6 (1997): 782–95, 793.

15

Traci Byrnne Voyles, Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2015), 23.

16

All the state’s major water suppliers draw from these sources. David M. Zimmer, “Ringwood aims to make Wanaque Reservoir scenery, not supply,” Northjersey.com, October 20, 2017, .

17

Chuck Stead, “Ramapough/Ford: The Impact and Survival of an Indigenous Community in the Shadow of Ford Motor Company’s Toxic Legacy(PhD diss., Antioch University, 2015), 31.

18

Our Land, Our Stories: Excavating Subterranean Histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, ed. Anita Bakshi (North Brunswick: New Jersey Council for the Humanities, 2019).

19

Patrick Wolfe, “Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native,” Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (2006): 387–409.