Creating Mindful Heritage Narratives: Black Women in Slavery and Freedom

Sesma, Elena

doi:10.1080/21619441.2016.1138759

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“…These include Angela Davis's (2003) work on mass incarceration; Kimberle Crenshaw's (1989) interventions in theorizing inequality and difference; Dána-Ain Davis's (2019) research on Black women's reproductive rights; and Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi's cofounding of the Black Lives Matter movement (Khan-Cullors and Bandele 2017). Black feminist scholarship is relevant to historicizing, critiquing, and deconstructing power relations (Alexander 2006;Hartman 1997;hooks 2014;Lorde 2012;McKittrick 2006;Sharpe 2016), and it has inspired critical work in archaeology (Arjona 2017;Battle-Baptiste 2011;Franklin 2001;Lee and Scott 2019;Morris 2017;Sesma 2016;Sterling 2015;Wilkie 2003).…”

Section: Envisioning An Antiracist Archaeological Praxis As a Black Fmentioning

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“The Future of Archaeology Is Antiracist”: Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter

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This forum builds on the discussion stimulated during an online salon in which the authors participated on June 25, 2020, entitled “Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter,” and which was cosponsored by the Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA), the North American Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG), and the Columbia Center for Archaeology. The online salon reflected on the social unrest that gripped the United States in the spring of 2020, gauged the history and conditions leading up to it, and considered its rippling throughout the disciplines of archaeology and heritage preservation. Within the forum, the authors go beyond reporting the generative conversation that took place in June by presenting a road map for an antiracist archaeology in which antiblackness is dismantled.

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Section: Envisioning An Antiracist Archaeological Praxis As a Black Fmentioning

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“The Future of Archaeology Is Antiracist”: Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter

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“…For example, there was an 800% increase in the need for mental health services from March 2019 to March 2020 (Siegel & Mallow, 2021). Additionally, the number of adults reporting anxiety‐related symptoms has increased from 11.0% in January of 2019 to 41.1% in January of 2021 (Panchal et al., 2021). Considering women are at a higher risk for developing anxiety and depression than men (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), these figures are especially concerning.…”

Section: Motherhood and Mental Health During The Covid‐19 Pandemicmentioning

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“…Although several challenges within the COVID‐19 pandemic may contribute to the rise in mental health symptomatology among mothers, job loss, risk of contracting the disease, and school closures are cited as top concerns (Panchal et al., 2021). These challenges have contributed to increased parental involvement in daily child‐rearing activities, particularly with young children (Cameron et al., 2020).…”

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The cost of intersectionality: Motherhood, mental health, and the state of the country

McKinney

Meinersmann

2022

Journal of Social Issues

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The Coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic and society's overdue racial awakening (Worland, 2020) have created distinct needs for mothers, especially mothers of Color (MOC) in the United States (US) (Breman et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2021). Prior to the double pandemic (see Addo, 2020), expectations that mothers devote themselves entirely to their children may support increases in mental health symptomology within this population (Rahman et al., 2013). Based on systemic inequities that reside at the foundation of many institutions (e.g., healthcare, law, education) within the US, MOC experience increased worry, anxiety, stress, and fear during the double pandemic (Liu et al., 2021). In addition, MOC engage in mothering practices (e.g., racial socialization) that are unique to raising children who identify as Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color (BIPOC) (Hughes & Chen et al., 1997). Based on these facts, the authors investigate the sociocultural forces that impact MOC's mental health during the context of the double pandemic through a review of existent literature on this topic. The authors’ analysis and incorporation of intersectionality theory and Black feminist thought uncovers the ways in which these forces may influence the experiences of MOC. Finally, the authors utilize an intersectional‐based policy analysis framework (Hankivsky et al., 2014) to provide recommendations for social policy, education and training, and directions for future research. These recommendations acknowledge the influence of power and privilege in the US while building upon the protective factors that support MOC.

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“…This led her to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Under the guidance of Black feminist, Marxist, and Indigenous archaeologists, Sesma's early research focused on the construction and contemporary presentation of historical sites and narratives in New England (Sesma 2016) and later expanded to incorporate community‐based approaches to understanding sites of slavery, their contemporary legacies, and the political‐economic and emotional impacts of erasing such histories. Taylor's childhood fascination with ancient Egypt led him to pursue undergraduate studies in the Anthropology Department at the University of Waterloo (Canada), which offered coursework and field training in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean.…”

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1 Exploring the Contemporary in Old Places

Taylor

Sesma

2022

Archaeological Papers of the American

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This chapter opens an analytic space to consider the resonance of “old places” in the contemporary moment through the lens of archaeology. Borrowing the term used by some of our interlocutors, old places are places that bear memory, that have accrued emotional attachment, and that intervene in the present as reminders of things that have happened before. Through these qualities, old places sustain life and relations. We adopt an expansive view of site formation processes that extends into the present and future and argue that studying contemporary site formation can unleash insights into the multi‐temporal constitution of the world we inhabit. We do not insist on a single approach to studying these processes, but rather suggest that the methodological and theoretical diversity that archaeologists and local communities bring together is key to studying and knowing old places in the present. We draw connections between a contemporary archaeology of old places and the emergent fields of contemporary archaeology and critical heritage studies, but also argue for retaining and fully incorporating the political and activist orientations of historical, feminist, African Diaspora, and Indigenous archaeologies—fields that have long centered the knowledge and concerns of contemporary communities—into this work.

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Creating Mindful Heritage Narratives: Black Women in Slavery and Freedom

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

“The Future of Archaeology Is Antiracist”: Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter

“The Future of Archaeology Is Antiracist”: Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter

The cost of intersectionality: Motherhood, mental health, and the state of the country

1 Exploring the Contemporary in Old Places

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