All-Black Towns in Oklahoma
Forgotten Archaeologies and The Power of Membered Storytelling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5947541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisha Oliver (0000-0001-5367-4656, Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City, corresponding author), Derrell W Cox (0000-0002-8066-7643, University of Oklahoma) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-54 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1551-823X • E-ISSN: 1551-8248 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/apaa.12156 |
| OpenAlex | W4286689057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 28 |
Oklahoma's history books make little mention of the sociocultural significance and impact of all-Black towns within the state. There is scant information in Oklahoma's historical and archaeological records that discuss the roles of women in all-Black communities. The town of Dorason was an all-Black town settlement in Western Oklahoma. It was nestled between two all-Black towns within an American Indian tribal district. Miles away, the bustling railroad town of Elwat would later become home to many descendants from the all-Black towns we discuss in this chapter. Very little remains in these mostly forgotten spaces and places. Through a process of ethnohistorical investigation and several trips to field sites, our research places descendant community narratives within Black Feminist archaeological scholarship. Our purpose in privileging narratives is two-fold: 1) to fill in the gaps between the archaeology of storytelling and space and place literature; and 2) to illustrate the ways in which storytelling situated within archaeological frameworks is empowering. The inclusion of these narratives creates an understanding of empowerment through all-Black town space and placemaking. We argue that intimate space, storytelling within spaces, and strong social networks are and were critical elements of self-empowerment and emancipatory practices in contentious spaces
Archaeology · Art · Empowerment · Liminality · Literature · Narrative · Placemaking · Political science · Power (physics · Scholarship · Settlement (finance · Situated · Sociology · Storytelling · Urban design · American Environmental and Regional History · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Architecture
Call to home
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Questioning Theory
Archaeological Encounters
Of Other Spaces
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Writing Women's Worlds
Spatializing Culture
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Archaeological Ethnography
Introduction
Boarding
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |