Intersectionality as Emancipatory Archaeology
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2017
Intersectionality emerged from Black feminist theory as a way to understand and challenge hegemonic power structures within society. At the foundation of this approach is an understanding that oppressive systems of power impact and interact with one another, forming a matrix of domination. There are two main goals for this session. The first is to highlight the ways in which archaeology can aid in the analysis of intersecting power relations as they emerge over extended periods of time. We also want to show how an intersectional archaeology can help inform contemporary strategies to dismantle historical systems of oppressive power relations, and contribute to social justice and equality.
Other Keywords
Intersectionality •
Race •
Gender •
Landscape Studies •
class •
social justice •
Social Complexity •
Power •
Education •
Public Archaeology
Temporal Keywords
20th Century •
19th Century •
18th Century •
Early 20th Century •
Twentieth Century •
18th Century to early 20th Century •
19th and 20th centuries •
Post-bellum (Reconstruction, Jim Crow) •
1891-1946 •
1840-1940
Geographic Keywords
North America •
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory)
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- Archaeology's Role in Changing a Generation of Youth: Exploring Education and Intersectionality (2017)
- Behind the Scenes of Hollywood: The Intersectionality of Gender, Whiteness, and Reproductive Health (2017)
- Coal-fired Power: Household goods, Hegemony, and Social Justice at Appalachian Company Coal Mining Towns (2017)
- Colonial Stigma in ‘Post’-Colonial Archaeology (2017)
- Digging in Our Mothers’ Gardens: Unearthing Formations of Black Womanhood (2017)
- The Embodiment of Identity: an Archaeological Perspective on Race and Self-Representation in18th -century Virginia (2017)
- Empowering Social Justice And Equality By Making Minority Sites And Intersecting Power Dynamics Visible (2017)
- An Intersectional Archaeology of Women's Reproductive Rights (2017)
- Intersectionality, Strategic Essentialism, Third Spaces, and Charmed Circles: Using Dead Ladies’ Garbage to Explain Today’s America (2017)
- The "Most Cherished Dream": Analysis of Early 20th century Filipino Community Spaces and Identity in Annapolis, Maryland (2017)
- No Longer "Playin’ the Lady": Examining Black Women’s Consumption at the Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead (2017)
- Power and the Production of an American Landscape (2017)
- Preserving Heritage: The Challenge of Race and Class at the Pyrrhus Concer Homelot (2017)
- Reading between the Lines: Building the Historic Context for a Female Planter in mid-18th Century Piedmont Virginia (2017)
- Searching for Proud Shoes: The Pauli Murray Project and the Place of Historical Archaeology within a Social Justice Organization (2017)
- Using Archaeology to Understand Strategies of Racial Uplift, Past, Present, and Future: A Case Study from Annapolis, Maryland (2017)