Archaeologists Should Be Activists Too
Archaeologists are well-suited to help organize protests such as this “Count the Vote” rally in 2020. Jon Irons When Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, paused counting votes for one night…
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Culture—Not Genetics—Was More Salient for Anglo-Saxons
An Anglo-Saxon burial mound rises in Taplow Court, England. Shutterstock This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Scholar…
On The Culture of Harassment in Archaeology: An interview with Barbara L. Voss
[Content advisory: This article discusses harassment and discrimination in archaeology, including discussion of sexual assault.] On the morning of March 30, 2021, three articles on the culture of…
And You Watch as We Make Woodwater Again
[no-caption] Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Images and you wonder how we remember our culture of traumatization our body beings tied to a land we were told was not ours…
When “Voluntary” Return Is Not a Real Option for Asylum-Seekers
Wrestling with the themes of violence, hope, and resilience, Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi often makes delicate use of red—the color of blood. Imran Qureshi “Love Me, Love Me…
‘Race,’ ‘Diversity,’ and the University
If this was a good time for Canadian academia, you would not be able to tell from the blanket of almost absolute silence that has been pulled over…
What Will It Take to Stop Swimming in the Waters of Racism?
[no-caption] Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images In the weeks leading up to the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, I passed dozens of Donald Trump 2024 banners and…
Whedon, Fandom, and Cancel Culture
By Alissa Whitmore “A guy who goes around saying ‘I’m a feminist’ usually has an agenda that is not feminist. A guy who behaves like one, who actually…
Why We Need a Truth Commission on White Supremacy
The author leads a teacher training seminar as part of a genocide education project run by the Documentation Center of Cambodia, a local nongovernmental organization heavily involved in Cambodia’…
Anti-Asian Racism’s Deep Roots in the United States
People protest anti-Asian hate crimes on April 4 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, incidents of harassment, discrimination, and violen…
Kamala Harris’ Refusal of the One-Drop Rule
When Kamala Devi Harris was sworn in as vice president earlier this year, many people in the U.S. and around the globe recognized that gender and racial barriers…
How Black Caribbean Communities Are Reviving an Ancestral Dance Tradition
Bèlè dancers and musicians help shape how some Martinicans envision their future society. Benny René Charles As public discussions about social justice and Black resistance continue in th…
What Dog Breeds Say About Race
In the Philippines, the most sought-after dogs are those that have a breed—and preferably a certificate that proves their provenance. Be it Alaskan malamute, German shepherd, or Siberian…
Why Are Black People’s Remains in Museums?
Many U.S. museums, including those housed at Harvard University, collected and currently still store human remains. Smith Collection/Gado/Archive Photos via Getty Images This article was …
How Whiteness Works: JAMA and the Refusals of White Supremacy by Clarence C. Gravlee
In late February, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an episode of its JAMA Clinical Reviews podcast titled, “Structural Racism for Doctors—What Is It?” In an accompanying twee…
Black and Indigenous Futures
In this final webinar of the series, archaeologists, artists, and cultural theorists turn to questions of what’s next in the struggle for the recognition and promotion of Indigenous…
How Scientific Taxonomy Constructed the Myth of Race
[no-caption] Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images As a graduate assistant in biological anthropology at the University at Buffalo, I was tasked with curating the primate skeletal collection. The…
Airbnb’s Location Ratings as Anti-Black Spatial Disinvestment in Washington D.C.
In 2016, Airbnb host Synta Keeling appeared on NPR’s Hidden Brain to share her story of hosting as a Black woman living east of the Anacostia River. She…
Preserving the Voices of the Antioch Colony
[no-caption] Maria Franklin The chronicles of ordinary Black Americans who lived and labored in Texas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are largely unheralded. That’s especially…
#Academic Fictions: Cape Town through Time and Space: An Experimental Poem
Part 1: 1921 “Poison Tea, Colonial Imports”, by an Observer “Them nasty Malays can make it work months after you take it”, quotes Lady Duff G.: This,…
Stop Destroying African American Cemeteries
A gravestone in the Morningstar Tabernacle No. 88 Cemetery in Cabin John, Maryland. Craig G/Flickr In the late 19th century, a group of once-enslaved, free African Americans in…
How Imperialism Gave Us 2020
Violence and disease have long been intertwined in the Americas. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The world is caught in the grip of a deadly pandemic and yet another wave…
Black Food Matters Panel Available on YouTube
Jennifer Jo Thompson Like me, you might have missed SAFN’s Black Food Matters Panel at Raising Our Voices—especially, since it was happening right about the same time that…
The Darker the History, the Sweeter the Truth
How a white identified city struggles to commemorate the Black lives and deaths that produced its sugar and built its wealth. Sugar Land is a growing, white, politically…