Black Studies and Archaeology
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Insights from Black Feminist Perspectives, Black Geographies, and Critical Race Theory have offered renewed insights into the interpretation of historic sites and in some cases, restructured the manner in which archaeology is conducted. While interest in African diasporic archaeology continues to rise, African and African Diaspora Studies theorizations have not fully been applied or integrated within the fabric of archaeological epistemology, pedagogy, and methodology. Building off of the growing literature in African and African Diaspora Studies, this panel explores the ways in which scholars are currently using theoretical and practical applications of African and African Diaspora Studies to inform their archaeological research. Moreover, we explore what Black Studies has to offer to the wider field of archaeology as a discipline.
Other Keywords
Black Studies •
Archaeology •
bioarchaeology •
Historical Archaeology •
Race •
African-American •
Cemeteries •
Madagascar •
landscapes •
Pedagogy
Geographic Keywords
North America •
Florida •
United States of America (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Cayman Islands (Country) •
Turks and Caicos Islands (Country) •
Bermuda (Country) •
Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre (Country) •
Republic of Cuba (Country) •
Canada (Country)
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- Documents (9)
- Abundance/Absence: Reframing Agency in African Diaspora Archaeology (2021)
- "Aquilombamento" as a Potentializing Praxis for Black Existences in Archaeology (2021)
- Histories of Life: Biopolitical Sovereignty in Precolonial Madagascar (2021)
- Pandemic Parallels: The Black Feminist Necropolitics of Excavating Cholera in the Time of COVID (2021)
- Racializing Surveillance and the (Re)Production of Blackness in Plantation Landscapes (2021)
- Reframing the Refuge: Interpreting Enslavement at Monocacy National Battlefield through Black Feminist Perspectives (2021)
- Reparations & Archaeology: Envisioning Social Justice for People of African Descent (2021)
- Sankofa Archaeology: "Going Back" as an Afrodecolonial Methodology (2021)
- Sites of Memory: Historic African American Cemeteries in Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida. (2021)