glossary
NOUN: a collection of specialized terms with their meanings [1]
synonym Keywording: a process of cataloguing vocabulary; a mode of interrogation; to make work accessible; to serve as record of change over time [2]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Keywords for African American Studies (2018)
Family Tree
NOUN: a genealogical diagram [1]
[1] Merriam-Webster
For ease of reference, my family tree can be viewed on Canva here.
Appendix
NOUN: a bodily outgrowth or process [1]
NOUN (body part): a small tube-shaped part that has no use in humans [2]
LATIN: an addition; continuation; something attached [3]
NOUN: supplementary matter added at the end of a book [1]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Cambridge Dictionary
[3] Online Etymology Dictionary
Archive
NOUN: a death sentence, a tomb, a display of the violated body, an inventory of property, a medical treatise on gonorrhea, a few lines about a whore’s life, an asterisk in the grand narrative of history [1]
NOUN: a site of community identity and self-realization; a monolithic accumulation of knowledge; a sponge-like fluidity of information; a particular location but with no fixed address; a place of affect and emotion; a context for evidence and memory; a deliberate site of power [2]
NOUN (pertaining to slavery): slavery’s archive is in no one place; is never completely knowable; an imaginary with no specific location; exists wherever the material might exist – in traditional archives, but also in the abstract and in the possible [3]
[1] “Venus in Two Acts” by Sadiya Hartman (pg. 2)
[2] “Moving the margins to the middle: reconciling ‘the archive’ with the archives” by Jeannette Bastian (pg. 6, 9) in Engaging with Records and Archives
[3] “Moving the margins to the middle: reconciling ‘the archive’ with the archives” by Jeannette Bastian (pg. 7-8) in Engaging with Records and Archives
Assemblage
NOUN: a collection of things; the process of joining [1]
[1] Cambridge Dictionary
Blood
NOUN: the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body [1]
NOUN: related by birth [2]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Cambridge Dictionary
Care
VERB: to cultivate anticipation of another world; to live now dedicated to the task of turning this world into a better one [1]
NOUN: the antidote to violence [2]
NOUN: care and acts of care as complicated, gendered, misused; shared and distributed risk; mass refusals of the unbearable life; total rejections of the dead [3]
related to IRISH (gairm) to cry; PROTO-GERMANIC (karo-) to lament; OLD ENGLISH (carian) to grieve [4]
NOUN: looking away; closing our eyes; seeing beyond the intellect and observation [5]
[1] “What White Supremacists Want” by Bonnie Honig
[2] Saidiya Hartman
[3] Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
[4] Online Etymology Dictionary
[5] “Looking Away” by Lisa Stevenson
Colonialism
NOUN: a practice and logic organizing the modern world through uneven distribution of resources and subordination of black and brown bodies [1]
NOUN: domination of a people or area by a foreign state or nation [2]
[1] Keywords for African American Studies (2018) entry by Shona N. Jackson (pg. 56)
[2] Merriam-Webster
Descendant
ADJECTIVE: proceeding from an ancestor [1]
NOUN: something similar to and influenced by something that existed before it [2]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Cambridge Dictionary
[Dis]Inherit(ance)
NOUN (from dead person): money or objects someone gives you when they die [1]
NOUN: tradition; a valuable possession; common heritage [2]
VERB (biology): to have (a characteristic, disease, etc.) because of your parents’ genes [3]
NOUN (for descendents of the enslaved): the inheritance of a blocked inheritance; the radically unequal distribution of property, privilege, and rights on the basis of race [4]
[1] Cambridge Dictionary
[2] Merriam-Webster
[3] Britannica
[4] The Implicated Subject by Michael Rothberg (pg. 64-65)
Entangle(ment)
NOUN: condition of being involved [1]
VERB: to make complicated [1]
NOUN: wrapped and twisted together in a mass [2]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Cambridge Dictionary
Genealogy
NOUN: regular descent of a person from a progenitor [1]
NOUN: demands relentless erudition; opposes itself to the search for “origins”; seeks to reestablish the various systems of subjection and the hazardous play of dominations [2]
related to OLD ENGLISH (folctalu): folk tale, study of family trees [3]
NOUN: concerned with submerged problems whose itches feel impenetrable, whose remedies are ever just beyond our grasp, and whose very articulations require a severe work of thoughts [4]
NOUN (plural): histories of inversion [5]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] “Nietzsche, Genealogy, and History” in Language, counter-memory, practice by Michel Foucault (pg. 142 and 148)
[3] Online Etymology Dictionary
[4] Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity by Colin Koopman (pg. 1)
[5] “Foucault, Genealogy, Counter-History” by Gabriel Rockhill (pg. 86) in Theory & Event
Haunting
ADJECTIVE: staying in the mind [1]
NOUN: visitation by a ghost [2]
NOUN: not easily forgotten [2]
NOUN: a way in which abusive systems of power make themselves known; an animated state where a repressed or unresolved social violence makes itself known [3]
[1] Cambridge Dictionary
[2] Merriam-Webster
[3] Ghostly Matters by Avery Gordon (pg. xvi)
Implicated Subject
NOUN: neither a victim nor a perpetrator; a participant in and beneficiary of a system that generates dispersed and unequal experiences of trauma and well-being simultaneously; a person who is implicated in the past, but not complicit in crimes that took place before our birth [1]
[1] The Implicated Subject by Michael Rothberg (pg. 1, 12, 14)
Implication
NOUN: a close connection [1]
LATIN (implicare): involve, entangle; embrace [2]
related to VERB (implicate): to draw attention to how we are “folded into” events that at first seem beyond our agency as individual subjects [3]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Online Etymology Dictionary
[3] The Implicated Subject by Michael Rothberg (pg. 1)
Node
NOUN: an entangling complication; a point where parts originate; a swelling [1]
NOUN (biology): a place where a leaf and stem join on a plant [2]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Cambridge Dictionary
Permaculture
NOUN: an agricultural system seeking to integrate human activity with natural surroundings to create self-sustaining ecosystems [1]
NOUN: plant-growing systems that cause little damage to the environment [2]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Cambridge Dictionary
Privilege
VERB: to accord a higher value or superior position [1]
NOUN: an opportunity to do something enjoyable [2]
NOUN (law): legal protection that a person has due to their position within a society [2]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Cambridge Dictionary
Remediation
NOUN: the act of remedying [1]
NOUN: the removal of a poisonous substance from the environment [2]
NOUN: assumes that all previous forms of representation have failed, necessitating new forms of contestation [3]
[1] Merriam-Webster
[2] Cambridge Dictionary
[4] The Implicated Subject by Michael Rothberg (pg. 83)
Story
NOUN: a form of compensation or even reparations, perhaps the only kind that can be given [1]
NOUN: an account of incidents; a fictional narrative; widely circulated rumor; a statement regarding the facts pertinent to a situation [2]
NOUN: a description, either true or imagined; a lie [3]
[1] “Venus in Two Acts” by Sadiya Hartman (pg. 4)
[2] Merriam-Webster
[3] Cambridge Dictionary
Taxonomy
NOUN: dry classification that spoils all enjoyment [1]
NOUN: the pleasure of naming [1]
NOUN: orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships [2]
[1] “Arts of Inclusion, or How to Love a Mushroom” by Anna Tsing in Mānoa (pg. 192)
[2] Merriam-Webster
Redress
NOUN: to correct a wrong [1]
TRANSITIVE VERB: to set right; to remove the cause of grievance; to requite for a loss [2]
NOUN: relief from distress [2]
[1] Cambridge Dictionary
[2] Merriam-Webster
Slavery
NOUN: the condition of a person in permanent servitude [1]
NOUN: the state of a person forced under threat of violence to labor for the profit of another [2]
[1] Keywords for African American Studies (2018) entry by Sowande’ M. Mustakeem (pg. 208)
[2] Merriam-Webster