2022 Theses Master's

The Brick

Waite-Santibanez, Tamara

The brick occupies a singular role in the radical political imagination: not only as an object and tool, but also as a site and moment of simultaneous disruption and generation. I propose the brick as a framework for oral history listening. In recognizing moments in narrators’ lives that both rupture and reorient the possibilities of being, I apply the metaphor of the brick and wall as a way to map agency, potentiality, and resistance while preserving narrators’ political knowledge.