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Snatching Bodies, Snatching History/ies: Exhuming the Insidious Plundering of Black Cemeteries as a Curriculum of Postmortem Racism

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Title: Snatching Bodies, Snatching History/ies: Exhuming the Insidious Plundering of Black Cemeteries as a Curriculum of Postmortem Racism
Language: English
Authors: Varga, Bretton A., Helmsing, Mark E., van Kessel, Cathryn, Christ, Rebecca C.
Source: Equity & Excellence in Education. 2022 55(3):283-295.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 13
Publication Date: 2022
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Blacks, African Americans, Death, Human Body, Geographic Location, Land Use, Antisocial Behavior, Crime, Racism, African American History, Violence, History, Whites, Power Structure, Curriculum Development, Cultural Influences, Decolonization
DOI: 10.1080/10665684.2022.2132190
ISSN: 1066-5684
1547-3457
Abstract: This article engages in curriculum work regarding the theft of Black bodies and history/ies, the plundering of Black cemeteries, and sustained hegemonic efforts to use and reuse Black bodies for white/settler onto-epistemological advancements. In particular, this article draws from assemblages of violence and necropolitics to explore implications of postmortem racism on curriculum studies. By tracing the history of body snatching, we identify and discuss the problematic of snatching as a practice and connect it to the problematic of white/settler onto-epistemologies that remain (violently) connected to educational research. The implications of these problematics lead us to call for more "wake work" in embodying, decolonizing, and unsettling curriculum.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2023
Accession Number: EJ1374340
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:This article engages in curriculum work regarding the theft of Black bodies and history/ies, the plundering of Black cemeteries, and sustained hegemonic efforts to use and reuse Black bodies for white/settler onto-epistemological advancements. In particular, this article draws from assemblages of violence and necropolitics to explore implications of postmortem racism on curriculum studies. By tracing the history of body snatching, we identify and discuss the problematic of snatching as a practice and connect it to the problematic of white/settler onto-epistemologies that remain (violently) connected to educational research. The implications of these problematics lead us to call for more "wake work" in embodying, decolonizing, and unsettling curriculum.
ISSN:1066-5684
1547-3457
DOI:10.1080/10665684.2022.2132190