Black Activists and Racial Geographies of Memory in Postuprising Minneapolis

Since the 2020 uprising that followed the police murder of George Floyd, activists in Minneapolis have worked to preserve the memory of the uprising and carry its revolutionary energy forward. From activist landmarks like George Floyd Square to archival projects like Memorialize the Movement, which stages public exhibitions of protest art, activists build the memory of the uprising out into the city in ways that confront wider dynamics of erasure and challenge the exclusions of the city’s racial geography. I analyze this activist memory work as a spatially productive practice that confronts the city’s ongoing anti-Black development while also drawing on memory work to build up sites of Black resilience.