Open AccessCITATION, ERASURE, AND VIOLENCE: A Memoir
Author(s) -
SMITH CHRISTEN A.
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/ca37.2.05
Subject(s) - erasure , memoir , citation , patriarchy , politics , sociology , gender studies , power (physics) , race (biology) , colonialism , history , political science , law , art history , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
This essay examines the intimate relationship between the personal, the political, violence, and citational erasure through the lens of Black women's experience. Antiblackness, misogyny, and patriarchy together produce the environment that foments Black women's citational erasure within anthropology and the academy more broadly. Such erasure is not just an intellectual matter. It is equally a matter of power whose logic has deep roots in settler‐colonial extractivism and the historical exploitation of Black women's labor. Citation thus not only concerns naming or bibliographic incorporation but also historical patterns of race‐gender exploitation that haunt the present.