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Nuance, Encounter and Restorative Justice: How the Black Horsemen of Philadelphia reshape mythic narratives and reclaim spatial agency
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2025-08
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https://doi.org/10.34944/1nfw-n095
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If woven together, the three stories I have told within the three dissertation articles produce a historical, cultural and personal product for the Black horse riding community and for the city of Philadelphia. Throughout the research process, I documented and also helped create community. As a neighborhood non-profit, the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club (FSURC) builds social capital daily. I was able to assist club members during speaking engagements at educational institutions, community gatherings and fundraisers. The core of environmental justice work rests within the community it creates. The eventual culmination of these three articles tell the story of on-the-ground activism in conjunction with academic analysis. My positionality as researcher sometimes helped, and other times hindered the organizational process as I learned how to facilitate less and listen more. In the end, my role became that of a storyteller: which is an organizational tactic on its own. The formalization of the FSURC as an institution was further established, and new stories (such as the “ride out” to the Laurel Hill East Cemetery) were created based on research findings. The stories contained within the three articles matter on their own, and as a collection. In academia, stories can clarify the ways in which the personal and theoretical coexist.
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