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FOR-105: We Need You Here: Revolutionizing Historical Archaeology Through Collective Black and Indigenous Mothering
Time:
Thursday, 04/Jan/2024:
9:30am - 11:30am
Session Chair: Alicia Odewale Session Chair: Peggy L Brunache
Location:Grand Ballroom ABC
Lower Level
Session Abstract
This panel explores the challenges of Black and Indigenous mothering within the field of historical archaeology from those engaged in various forms of “raising” children. For Black and Indigenous archaeologists who choose to engage in mothering, the concept of motherhood is a collective action that often requires collaboration and village making to remain in the field, which challenges established standards of solo archaeological research. And in the same way “raising” children has come to mean not just helping young people find their place in the world, but also fighting against injustice, raising childrens’ bodies out of the ground at historical sites, building school-age curriculums that fight against historical erasure, using archaeology to bear witness to historical trauma that lingers from adolescence to adulthood, and actively searching for their presence when our living children are being taken and murdered in greater numbers and our ancestral children are missing from the archives.
Presentations
We Need You Here: Revolutionizing Historical Archaeology Through Collective Black and Indigenous Mothering
Organizer(s): Alicia Odewale (Archaeology Rewritten United States of America), Peggy Brunache (University of Glasgow, Scotland), Dania Jordan (Oakland Museum, United States of America of California)
Chair(s): Alicia Odewale (Archaeology Rewritten, United States of America), Peggy Brunache (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Panelist(s): Whitney Battle-Baptiste (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States of America), Alexandra Jones (Archaeology in the Community, United States of America), Kristina Douglass (Columbia University, United States of America), Kisha Supernant (University of Alberta, Canada), Lindsay Montgomery (University of Toronto, Canada), Ora Marek-Martinez (Northern Arizona University, United States of America), Dania Jordan (Oakland Museum, United States of America of California), Cheryl White (AdeK University of Suriname)
This panel explores the challenges of Black and Indigenous mothering within the field of historical archaeology from those engaged in various forms of “raising” children. For Black and Indigenous archaeologists who choose to engage in mothering, the concept of motherhood is a collective action that often requires collaboration and village making to remain in the field, which challenges established standards of solo archaeological research. And in the same way “raising” children has come to mean not just helping young people find their place in the world, but also fighting against injustice, raising childrens’ bodies out of the ground at historical sites, building school-age curriculums that fight against historical erasure, using archaeology to bear witness to historical trauma that lingers from adolescence to adulthood, and actively searching for their presence when our living children are being taken and murdered in greater numbers and our ancestral children are missing from the archives.
