Erin McElroy is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington and cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and the Anti-Eviction Lab. They are author of Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Duke Univ. Press, 2024) and coeditor of Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press, 2021).
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Who Benefits from Distorting American Studies?
“There is a movement undermining, constraining, and eradicating those who document, understand, and name the experiences of systematically marginalized communities in US history.”
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