The History of Dispossession and Settlement with James Levy

“If we’re talking about dispossession, you have to talk about settlement. That’s the other half of it. Why do people and how do people get to where they go? And how do they get that land? Ultimately, what’s the historical processes through which that’s happened?” These are the questions historian James Levy is asking in his collaborative project “Whose Land?” The project brings community leaders, students, and scholars together to investigate the history and legacies of settlement, land dispossession and displacement in Wisconsin and New York. Levy joins host Allen Ruff to talk about land, displacement, and the power of oral histories.

James Levy is founder and Executive Director of the Race and Place Coalition and the Whose Land? public history project. Previously Levy was an Associate Professor and Public History program director at UW-Whitewater.

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