Notes Toward a Critical Race Practice of Preservation

Abstract

Over the last fifty years, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become pivotal to legal, political, and educational theory and practice. What are its implications for the field of historic preservation (and why aren’t preservationists asking this question)? This essay examines preservation practice through the lens of CRT, articulating a series of questions and provocations that require attention as the field attempts to repair its history of Black, Indigenous, and POC erasure.