In this film and panel discussion program, we consider how racial divisions play out and are reinforced in concrete and asphalt, as cities continue to set exclusion in stone. The concrete seams demarcating communities are often sites of conflict and brutality when they are policed to fortify separation. But possibilities also exist at these seams. Possibilities challenging the divisions, and declaring that all of our neighborhoods and the people in them deserve the right to flourish. Join us to discuss the convergence of segregation, community development, the crisis of police brutality in Black and Brown neighborhoods, and narrative justice as a way forward.
Panelists
Jane Gillooly
Artist/Educator; Filmmaker, Where the Pavement Ends
Tonika Johnson
Social Justice Artist/Photographer, Creator of the Folded Map Project
Ronald Sundstrom (Moderator)
SFUFF Humanities Advisor, Professor of Philosophy University of San Francisco
Dr. Brandi Thompson Summers
Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Films
Where the Pavement Ends
USA | 2018 | 79 mins. | Directed by Jane Gillooly
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS transports viewers to Missouri towns Kinloch and Ferguson, examining the shared histories and deep racial divides affecting both. Through archival audio recordings, photographs and the recollections of residents from what was then all-Black Kinloch and the all-white community of Ferguson, director Jane Gillooly, a Ferguson native, draws parallels between a 1960s dispute over a physical barricade erected between the towns and the 2014 shooting death by police of Michael Brown which brought her town national attention.
