On today's episode, Jessica hosts a conversation with Dr. Antoinette Jackson and Delande Justinavil about Black cemeteries. We talk about their work and how their efforts fit into larger efforts to learn more about and protect Black cemeteries. We talk about the importance of using a variety of methods and disciplines to understand this important topic, as well as the necessity of including living people and art to inform this work and speak to the general public. The discussion includes the importance of reframing away from the idea of Black cemeteries as “abandoned” and the many layered efforts necessary to protect Black cemeteries holistically.

TranscriptsFor rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/70Links

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Poem by Walter Jennings: "A Lullaby for Living Communities" [Scroll down for poem on the BCN site
• The Black Cemetery Network (BCN)
• The African American Burial Ground & Remembering Project at USF
• African American Burial Grounds Oral History Project
• American University exhibit (Plans to Prosper You: Reflections of Black Resistance and Resilience in Montgomery County’s Potomac River Valley)
• Society of Black Archaeologists
• Black in BioAnth Collective
• Association of Black Anthropologists
• HR 6805 African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Act
• S3667 African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Act
• African American Cemetery Coalition
• African American Cemetery Alliance Tampa Bay
• Seizing intellectual power: The dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground by Cheryl J. LaRoche & Michael L. Blakey
• Exhuming the Dead and Talking to the Living: The 1914 Fire at the Florida Industrial School for Boys—Invoking the Uncanny as a Site of Analysis, by
• "Craft an African American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act"
• Defending the Dead, Confronting the Archive: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip, by Patricia Saunders
• More on the show website

Contact

• Jessica
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  @livingheritageA