Southern Anthropologist
Abstract
The authors – a high school student, undergraduate and graduate students, and Anthropology Department faculty members at the University of Kentucky – discuss ways that existing ethnographic, archival, and archaeological data can be explored with new analytical lenses to contribute to public history centering voices and perspectives that have been silenced and marginalized in dominant historical narratives. This is argued to be a vital pedagogical project in secondary and postsecondary educational as well as inclusive community discussions, given the current legislative environment across a number of states in the southeastern US that discourages the teaching and even availability of texts that feature or include Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ perspectives and condemns social justice as a guiding value in US public life. A means to create resources for inclusive public history discussions – for example, mobile exhibits that could be available for public use at cemetery clean-ups, and homeplace reunions – is demonstrated through a reanalysis of artifacts from a nineteenth century Black homestead in Nicholas County, a rural community on the edge of Appalachian Kentucky, by students in a Historical Archaeology course at the University of Kentucky. Their work, utilizing Black Feminist theoretical perspectives, generated new interpretations for use in public history exhibits.
Relational Format
journal article
Recommended Citation
Kingsolver, Ann E. and Sesma, Elena
(2023)
"Standing Together Against Silencing: Anthropology as Inclusive Public History in the Anti-CRT Legislative Era,"
Southern Anthropologist: Vol. 38:
No.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southern_anthropologist/vol38/iss1/3
