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different set of memories than his or her White peer. Consider the Negro
Motorist Green Book, a travel guide for Black people during the time of
segregation and Jim Crow in the south. The Green Book, displays types of
memory described by Edward Casey (1987), with-ness (memories happen
to a body), around-ness (memories happen to a body in a specific place),
and though-ness (memory comes through shared ritual activities w/others).
The travel guide drew from individual and collective memories, socio-
political context and history, and memories from with-ness (body), around-
ness (place), and through-ness (ritual acts), and recorded as safe as possible
a passage for Black people through segregated geographies. The three-
phase model of memory sheds little light on this act of memory by the
Black community. Nor would ahistoricity or universality assist in
understanding the psychological significance of this book. The travel guide
only makes sense and is able to speak to the present when afforded
multiple sites of memory and a simultaneous past-present temporality. It
required and requires contemporary and historical context as well as
understanding of socio-political structures. As an act of memory, then and
now, it offer insights and challenges to communities on both sides of
segregation. The Black community did not just craft a travel guide; they
crafted a piece of historical memory that holds information about the
harms that stem from generations of racialized violence. By bringing the
past into the present, memory becomes a possible site of transformation
and repair. Memory as transformative draws from historical memory and
recognizes memory, in particular collective memory, as a place of dialog,
repair, and redress across generations. The individuals who had to travel by
the Green Book still require reparation whether living or deceased, and so
do their descendants. The Green Book offers an opening into unpacking the
historical harms of segregation and understanding its contemporary
manifestation. A travel guide may no longer be required, but that does not
mean that communities of color move as freely in the United States as their
White counterparts. Understanding the past as over misses the needs,
questions, and challenges that transcend linear time as well as the
opportunities to transform and repair.