Black Suffering for/from Anti-trafficking Advocacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7097706 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lyndsey P Beutin (0000-0001-6311-2542, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 14-30 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anti-Trafficking Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2286-7511 • E-ISSN: 2287-0113 |
| Publisher | Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (PUBLISHER • TH) |
| DOI | 10.14197/atr.20121792 |
| OpenAlex | W2758191528 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
This article analyses the images that Antislavery Usable Past creates to promote its cause of ‘making the antislavery past usable for contemporary abolition’. Drawing on collective memory studies, I discuss the political implications of how pasts are used for present issues. I argue that Antislavery Usable Past appropriates black suffering by reducing the memory and imagery of slavery to objects that are compatible with the anti-trafficking narrative, without regard for the ongoing black liberation struggle. I conclude by discussing the troubling trend of incorporating anti-trafficking exhibitions into institutions that preserve the history of slavery and abolition. Such inclusions redirect the history lessons of slavery away from understanding and addressing anti-blackness in the present and towards supporting advocacy campaigns articulated in the logics that underpinned racial chattel slavery in the first place
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Collective memory · Criminology · Exhibition · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · USable · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
From Conflict to Modern Slavery
Change in Rhetoric but not in Action? Framing of the Ethical Issue of Modern Slavery in a UK Sector at High Risk of Labor Exploitation
“Technically, by Law, you’re Not a ‘Prostitute’ If you’re Underage”
White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking
Fugitivity and marronage and the study of sex work
Reflections from the Field
Why Was He Videoing Us?’
Circles of analysis
To know in the subjunctive
Unfreedom in labour relations
Parroting the past
There’s a trafficking jam on the underground railroad
Fallacies of hope
Collapsing the Boundaries Between De Jure and De Facto Slavery
Anti-slavery as development
Racialized Rescue Narratives in Public Discourses on Youth Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States
Duplicitous Freedom
The Business of Abolition
From Criminals to Slaves
I Belong, but Do I Really Belong?" the Suspended Future of the "Modern Slave" in British Protection Politics
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |