The Future of Visual Anthropology in the Wake of Black Lives Matter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sireita Mullings ◽  
Shawn SobersUniversity of the West of England ◽  
Deborah A. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Future

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

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ayana Omilade Flewellen ◽  
Justin P. Dunnavant ◽  
Alicia Odewale ◽  
Alexandra Jones ◽  
Tsione Wolde-Michael ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The North ◽  
Road Map ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

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.

Generational Schism, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the Future of Protest

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-175
Author(s):  
Paige A. McGinley
Keyword(s):  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Future ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
The Relationship

A couple of days after the 2016 election, poet Treasure Shields Redmond responded to a prompt asking about “the future of protest” by channeling a figure from protests past. In so doing she challenged the prevailing models of the relationship between Black Lives Matter activists and their generational elders.

FROM POLICE REFORM TO POLICE ABOLITION? HOW MINNEAPOLIS ACTIVISTS FOUGHT TO MAKE BLACK LIVES MATTER

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-441
Author(s):  
Michelle S. Phelps ◽  
Anneliese Ward ◽  
Dwjuan Frazier
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Future

The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers in 2020 was a watershed moment, triggering protests across the country and unprecedented promises by city leaders to “end” the MPD. We use interviews and archival materials to understand the roots of this decision, tracing the emergent split between activists fighting for police reform and police abolition in the wake of the initial Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in Minneapolis. We compare the frames used by these two sets of movement actors, arguing that abolitionists deployed more radical frames to disrupt hegemonic understandings of policing, while other activists fought to resonate with the existing discursive structure. After years of police reform, Floyd’s death and the rebellion that followed gave abolitionist discourses more resonance. In the discussion, we consider the future of public safety in Minneapolis and its implications for understanding frame resonance in Black movements.

scholarly journals Re-viewing Studies on Africa, #Black Lives Matter, and Envisioning the Future of African Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Student ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

Abstract:This article considers what African Studies needs to look like in order for it to retain its disciplinary relevance for the next generation and in the larger context of the Black Lives movement globally. It asks questions about where we have come from in terms of race consciousness in our discipline and why this issue matters today. It begins by tracing the development of African Studies’ epistemic journey, and follows this with an examination of the recent Black student movements in South Africa and the U.S. It concludes by suggesting where we should be going.

scholarly journals Poetics for a Black Revolt

eLyra ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Haja Marie Kanu
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common

This essay is written as a response to the compounded crises of police brutality and the Covid-19 pandemic, in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement reignited by the death of George Floyd in 2020. It aims to show how anti-blackness and capitalism are the common denominators contributing to mass death in both crises. The essay explores the possibilities for poetry as radical practice, particularly the work of Black women poets such as Audre Lorde, Ericka Huggins and Warsan Shire. What becomes evident is the centrality of the Black body in reimagining the future, despite its historical emergence from the slave body. I argue that we must return to and reaffirm the bodies that Judith Butler calls abject within theory and poetics, in order to better protect the lives that inhabit them.

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