Open AccessCITATION AS CEREMONY: #SayHerName, #CiteBlackWomen, and the Practice of Reparative Enunciation
Author(s) -
SHANGE SAVANNAH
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca37.2.03
Subject(s) - extant taxon , ethnography , citation , ceremony , state (computer science) , sociology , politics , interpersonal violence , relation (database) , psychoanalysis , gender studies , psychology , criminology , history , anthropology , law , political science , poison control , medicine , suicide prevention , archaeology , biology , algorithm , evolutionary biology , computer science , environmental health , database
Liberal politics are subtended by several fatal, commonsense binaries: state vs. interpersonal violence; trans vs. non‐trans women; armed vs. innocent victims. Each of these binaries render Black women alternately invisible, incidental, and illegible. In this essay, I examine the hashtags #SayHerName and #CiteBlackWomen as citational practices of reparative enunciation that refuse these binaries. When citation is practiced as a form of relation, it offers a model for an ethical ethnographic practice in which we cite our research participants as thought and theory partners in an effort to speak back to the silences and violences of extant social science.