{"id":69666,"date":"2023-07-25T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=69666"},"modified":"2023-07-26T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T15:41:01","slug":"race-route-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/race-route-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring race and space along Route 66"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 60 teachers from throughout the nation spent a week in Flagstaff to delve into the history of race and space of historic Route 66.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of Racialized Spaces on Route 66, a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture project, the teachers, librarians, counselors and educators visited historic <\/span>Green Book<\/span><\/i> and Route 66 sites, heard oral histories from African American, Hispanic\/Latinx and Indigenous respondents, discussed best practices in teaching\/learning and developed lesson plans that examine Route 66 as the \u201cMother Road\u201d of community-based stories.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The co-directors, associate professor <\/span>Gretchen McAllister<\/span><\/b> and former NAU professor <\/span>Ricardo Guthrie<\/span><\/b>, were joined by Cline Library archivist <\/span>Sean Evans<\/span><\/b> and <\/span>Joseph Martin<\/span><\/b>, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership. Other community scholars, including Steven Mandrgoc and David Dunaway, also participated, as did the Road Ahead Foundation and the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus on the Flagstaff region provides a clear through-line for examining the underrepresented stories and voices that contribute to a more complete image of the Route 66 narrative,\u201d McAllister said.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The City of Flagstaff and surrounding areas near the Navajo Nation contain many extant buildings and historical sites found on Route 66 and in Victor Green\u2019s \u201cNegro Motorists\u2019 Guide\u201d (the Green Book circa 1926-1966), which allowed teachers to visit sites and meet residents who shared \u201clived experiences\u201d about the Black, Hispanic and Indigenous communities that developed along Route 66.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be able to help teachers develop strategies for creating lessons that provide room for having complex discussions that reimagine race, space, and reconciliation,\u201d Guthrie said. \u201cRoute 66 provides that platform to be able to talk and compare stories that drive our appreciation of history, culture, geography and biography, together.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The curriculum included lectures and workshops on archival research, a bus tour along the original alignments of Route 66 from Flagstaff to the old Twin Arrows trading post, extensive discussions and workshops, walking tours of Black heritage sites, a Basque Tourist Home and handball court, Route 66 motels and motor lodges and sites of Chinese and Hispanic businesses, which were negatively impacted by the realignment of Route 66 out of the segregated Southside neighborhoods where people of color lived.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn more about Racialized Spaces on Route 66.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Archivist Sean Evans leads site discussion of Twin Arrows trading post near original alignment near Navajo reservation outside Flagstaff. Top photo: Teachers and project leaders on Route 66 alignment in Flagstaff.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Murdoch Center \u201c66 Pathways to Juneteenth Exhibit\u201d panel<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ricardo Guthrie and teachers at Riverside Church in Flagstaff\u2014one of four historically Black churches near Route 66.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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K-12 teachers develop discussion module using Against the Grain\u201d techniques to interpret texts and narratives on Route 66.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Teachers develop \u201cJuxtaposition\u201d projects in NAU College of Education <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 60 teachers from throughout the nation spent a week in Flagstaff to delve into the history of race and space of historic Route 66.\u00a0 As part of Racialized Spaces on Route 66, a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture project, the teachers, librarians, counselors and…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":69667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}