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The tour we’ve embarked on is a scholarly and political performance created through an engagement with the built environment of The University of Texas at Austin. Through it we’ve seen how a critical interpretation of the landscape allows us to understand how the unequal power relations of the past are sedimented into the campus geography, architecture, monuments, names and landscapes. Having demonstrated how to apply our critical faculties in this manner, we urge participants to similarly interrogate the cultural and social organizational aspects of our present and in this manner to examine how past inequities are built into the current social arrangements and dynamics. Through this kind of study and understanding, we can begin the hard work of transforming the inequities that continue to exist in these aspects of our present lives.

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1. Littlefield Mansion
2. Women's Campus
3. Gearing Hall
4. Painter Hall
5. Steps of West Mall
6. South Mall
7. South Plaza Architecture
8. Jefferson Davis and George Washington Statues
9. Albert Sidney Johnston Statue
10. Robert E. Lee Statue
11. Right Side of Littlefield Fountain
12. Neo-Confederate University
13. PCL and Alumni Center
14. Campus Confederate Flags
15. Texas Cowboy Pavilion
16. Simkins and Creekside Residence Halls
17. Robert Lee Moore and Jim Bob Moffett Buildings
18. Conclusion

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1. Littlefield Mansion

1933 architectural planning map of the University of Texas rendered by Paul Philippe Cret, with the location of the Littlefield Mansion tour stop marked.