As the Statues Fall

Fryer, Tiffany C.; Belle, La; Galanin, Nicholas; Upton, Dell; Wolde-Michael, Tsione

doi:10.1086/714276

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“…This means understanding not only the interpretive qualities of materials but also their physical and spatial qualities, which are called forth to justify care and attention. Such qualities are not particular to Japanese American incarceration but involve histories of violence and trauma that remain in contention in the present, whether in debates around memorialization (Fryer et al., 2021), the control of museum assemblages (Hicks, 2021), or the practice of archaeological collection itself (Gonzalez, 2016). It also means considering how and where new materials are produced and how they can mobilize people and allow new forms of access and participation.…”

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Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence

Lau-Ozawa

2023

American Anthropologist

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The World War II mass incarceration of Japanese Americans was a traumatic event that had lasting repercussions on multiple communities. Archaeologists have sought to productively pursue community-based methodologies in studying this period, employing object-based oral histories, outreach events, and community participation in fieldwork. However, less scholarly attention has looked to the ways in which materials have become central to understanding and mobilizing around the incarceration camp history. Acts of pilgrimage, memorialization, scholarly study, and activism constitute key arenas through which this heritage is participated with, each interacting with materials in different ways. This article discusses three cases of material engagements, from the politics of object ownership to origami activism and their importance in reckoning with this violent past. Materials in these cases are not passive objects but rather spur actions and create new publics. Furthermore, the physical qualities of materials shape both the ways in which they are engaged and the politics that surround their rhetorical deployment.

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Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence

Lau-Ozawa

2023

American Anthropologist

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“…But that pride is steeped in the dispossession of Native lands, the durabilities of slavery, militant hypermasculinity, the American Civil War, incomplete Reconstruction, and the reinstallation of white supremacy through the co‐attendant politics of racial terror, Jim Crow segregation, and Confederate commemoration. Confederate monumentality has been the subject of a number of studies and continues to fascinate heritage scholars (e.g., Bauer, 2021; Fryer et al, 2021; Savage, 2018). Beyond tangible memorial products, even the US national holiday commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. had to be shared with Confederate general Robert E. Lee in the states of Mississippi and Alabama 4 .…”

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Heritage as liberation

Fryer¹

2023

American Anthropologist

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Why aren't archaeologists engaging in more substantive heritage work, and how might we do so? This article offers a conceptual framework for mobilizing our praxis toward the achievement of collective emancipation—what I am calling heritage as liberation. Heritage as liberation provides a mechanism for reckoning. It asks us to reevaluate our motivations and more clearly articulate what we stand for as archaeologists and heritage practitioners. I offer reflections on recent attempts by archaeologists to organize toward a just future, sketch what I think a practice of heritage as liberation offers that agenda, and then analyze the Equal Justice Initiative's (EJI) heritage work as an example of what is possible when we practice heritage as liberation. I close the article with thoughts on where archaeology stands in attempts to repair and redress past wrongs and on the range of contexts that might see an emancipatory heritage praxis enacted.

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“…And they reacted furiously. As the world watched, protestors toppled and transformed long‐protected racist and colonialist public monuments (Fryer et al., 2021). They demanded changes to buildings and foundations named for known slavers, racists, and abusers.…”

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