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DOCUMENT Citation Only Aja M. Lans.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning with the recent movements #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName, I consider how bioarchaeology can be used to reveal the long history of violence against black women in the United States. I do so by studying the skeletal and archival remains of 79 black women who were dissected in New York City during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ayana Omilade Flewellen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender Revolutions: Disrupting Heteronormative Practices and Epistemologies" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the midst of racialized servitude, sexual exploitation, and economic disenfranchisement, that marked the post-emancipation era in the United States, African American women were styling their hair with combs, lacing glass beads around their necks, dyeing coarse-cotton fabric with indigo-berry and...