Arijit Sen. In The Public Historian Volume 46, Issue 3 edited by Sarah H. Case
The paper explores how current Black residents of Milwaukee’s north side neighborhoods construe the history of their neighborhood. It presents three stories from a single city block: a twentieth-century narrative of growth, a more recent story of decline, and a longer aspirational dream of a shared commons. The current inhabitants assemble these diverse memories in anachronic ways, around multiple experiences of time such as nostalgia, a sense of disenfranchisement, and an aspirational dream. This ability to craft a complex narrative of place is a form of collective resistance against racism, segregation, and urban disinvestment.