Dr.Greer.
This sounds great. I won't be at SAA, but hope you can get this going. I forwarded it to out Black Studies directors, the Chreole Heritage Center here and Dr. George Avery at Steven F, Austin University in Texas.
Think about community-based research it is a great thing allaround. Maybe you could work it into your session.
Pete Gregory
Prof.Anthropology,
Northwestern State University, Natchitoches La.
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Hello everyone,
My name is Matt Greer and I am interested in organising a session at SAA
2023 on the intersection of archaeology and Black studies. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in presenting in a session like this or would be interested in co-organizing it with me. A tentative abstract is below.
*Archaeology as Black Studies *
Cultural anthropologist Savannah Shange (2019: 7, 10) writes that because Black studies scholars "work largely in the fields of English, history, and film studies, we don't know much about how their interventions map onto blackness as lived and loved on a daily basis across the diaspora." This, she argues, creates a space for anthropology to serve as a critical branch of Black studies, as our work can often account for "the daily practices that facilitate Black material and symbolic death" in ways that other disciplines cannot. Following Shange's lead, this session explores what it would look like for archaeology in particular to operate as a critical branch of Black studies by considering three interrelated questions. First, how can archaeological case studies add new texture to the theories proposed by Black studies scholars? Second, how would archaeological theories and methods need to change for us to align our work with Black studies? And third, can we push the spatial, temporal, and thematic boundaries of Black studies by applying the ideas of scholars like Angela Davis, W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Saidiya Hartman, bell hooks, or Sylvia Wynter to studies of Spanish colonialism, Inka or Roman imperialism, or deep prehistory?
Thank you all for considering this,
Matt Greer
Matthew C. Greer, PhD
(he/him)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor
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